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6 Books Every Human Resources Professional Should Read

HR Digest

Human Resource Management, By Gary Dessler. This book is a 700-page HR bible and is one of the most read books in HR management. The book covers five departments- recruitment, placement & talent management, training & development, compensation, and employee relations. The latest edition no.

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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

Before getting to my tips on how management can get started with this mission, it’s important to review the various definitions of mental health. You can access the latest educational and training materials either digitally or in hard copy formats. Mental Health Defined. The Bottom Line.

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Sustained Leadership

Coaching Tip

Thousands of leaders attend leadership training every year to glean insights into how to lead better. At the end of the training, most of these leaders will resolve to become more effective by using these new insights; hopefully with the guidance of a personal executive coach. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.

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Their Commitment Might Mean More Than Our Insight

Marshall Goldsmith

My friend, Dr. David Ulrich, is a highly respected thought leader, wonderful person and perhaps the world’s top HR consultant. As Peter Drucker sagely noted, “Most leaders I meet manage knowledge workers. These are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does.”

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

He was at the table with them as they planned training and communications, and as they decided how to reward people who took on improvement projects. In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. Scott Beaird, Director of Talent Management at Tufts Medical Center , told me, "We hire what the manager wants.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In ” The Onramp Fellowship’s Caren Ulrich Stacy adds: “This year marks the fourth consecutive annual decline in the number of mid- to senior-level female associates in large law firms.

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