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  • Staff Appraisal and Development

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    Organisations of all kinds have invested a great deal of time and effort in staff appraisal and management development, continually re-defining their aims and methods. This book, first published in 1976, reviews the progress made by 17 organisations in both public and private sectors. It presents the findings of an extensive series of research studies that assess the effectiveness of appraisal ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: Committees (1963)

    How They Work and How to Work Them

    by Edgar Anstey ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1963, Edgar Anstey’s work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interests nearly always need to be represented when a decision must be taken, and contributions are required from people of different outlook or expert knowledge. A committee is often the only means of achieving a workable solution to a problem. This book ... Read more

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  • Interviewing for the Selection of Staff

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    This book, first published in 1956, is intended for those who interview people to assess their suitability for appointment or promotion to a particular position of employment. The authors discuss different methods of interviewing, how to create appropriate questions for the interview, and how to reach conclusions with the answers given. The authors also include a section which gives advice and ... Read more

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    Series series TED Books
    An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we ... Read more

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  • Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results

    Learn from the executive who made Verizon Wireless #1 what it takes to drive results, develop people, and build careers“***Happy employees don't make good results; good results make happy employees.***” This is one of the rules that helped Denny Strigl to transform Verizon Wireless from a regional carrier into a billion-dollar behemoth during his 20 years as president and CEO. Strigl's long ... Read more

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  • The Refusal of Work

    The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

    by David Frayne ...
    Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought ... Read more

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  • Papers on the Science of Administration

    Edited by Luther Gulick, L. Urwick ...
    This edited collection includes contributions by Mary Parker Follett, Henri Fayol, James D. Mooney and Henry S. Dennison, and L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead and Elton Mayo. The paper by Henderson, Whitehead and Mayo discusses the findings of the Hawthorne experiments. Whilst admiring the pioneering work of Taylor, these authors criticize scientific management on the grounds that it does not ... Read more

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  • It's Alive

    The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business

    Why we are on the cusp of a new economic era that will make the changes and challenges of the Information Era seem like child’s playFrom the bestselling authors of Blur—a defining book of the Information Age—comes a startling glimpse into the near future and the emerging economy that awaits us. It’s Alive foretells the jolt the world is about to receive as the science of molecular evolution races ... Read more

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    by John W. Budd ...
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    Tips and Tricks Learned the Hard Way

    by Keith Johnson ...
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  • Design Thinking for the Greater Good

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  • Out of Poverty

    Sweatshops in the Global Economy

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually ... Read more

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