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Competency-Based Human Resource Management

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

Filled with practical tools and aids to help HR professionals, this book explains how to reinvent the human resource department so that job competencies--rather than job descriptions--become the foundation for all HR efforts.

Force-fitting employees into a "job box" shortchanges both the employees and the organization,...

The Myth of Leadership : Creating Leaderless Organizations

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

In this unconventional, thought-provoking text, Jeffrey Nielsen debunks leader-based corporate hierarchies and presents the paradigm of "peer-based" organizations.

Can we really run organizations without leaders? Yes, says organizational consultant Jeffrey Nielsen in this provocative book. According to Nielsen, it’s time...

Tools for Team Leadership : Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, this training guide explores the essence of leadership in a team environment, provides methods and strategies to help anyone become an effective team leader.

This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer,...

Powerhouse Partners : A Blueprint for Building Organizational Culture for Breakaway Results

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

For any manager or executive committed to achieving business goals through effective strategic partnership, this book gathers successes of some of the world's leading companies to deliver a tool kit for shaping a partnering culture.

From the author who introduced the groundbreaking concept of Partnering Intelligence come the...

The Accountable Organization : Reclaiming Integrity, Restoring Trust

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

This book shows how to identify an organization's values and purpose, integrate them into a strategic plan, and develop a focused road map for execution that provides clarity, defines performance standards, and much more.

Recent history of excess and misdeed to the contrary, being principled in business and making a profit are not...

Leveraging the New Human Capital: Adaptive Strategies, Results Achieved, and Stories of Transformation

Davies-Black Publishing, 2004

Without the “invisible” support of a home-based partner that backed Industrial Age workers, today’s employee can no longer focus solely on work but must simultaneously manage work and personal responsibilities. This dual-focus employee, whose knowledge or service work requires mind and heart as well as hands, is the new human...

Working GlobeSmart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders

Davies-Black Publishing, 2003

By any measure, business success is no longer solely about hard work, good intentions, and technical expertise. Relationship building, communication, and the ability to forge cooperation across organizational lines are key--especially when operating across borders, spanning time zones, and crossing cultures.

Whether you are working for...

Big Change at Best Buy: Working Through Hypergrowth to Sustained Excellence

Davies-Black Publishing, 2003

Designed to redefine successful change management in corporate America, Big Change at Best Buy offers hard-won lessons and the tools every executive and manager needs—in every business and every industry—to turn management practices and culture focused on rapid growth into the type of disciplined, customer-centered operation...

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