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Mastering HR: Best HRM Books for Beginners to Read in 2024

HR Digest

The field of human resource management (HRM) encompasses vital tasks such as recruiting, screening, and developing employees for businesses. From talent acquisition and employee engagement to legal considerations, the best human resource books equip readers with a solid foundation.

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. Senior Vice President – Human Resources, 3M. COURAGE UNDER CHANGE.

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Lessons from the Costa Concordia: A Case For Company Values

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Costa Human Resources (competence, diligence, loyalty, morality, friendliness and enthusiasm). Even reading the definitions carefully, safety is not mentioned. Costa Cruise Lines published values are: Passion for our Guests (a spontaneous sense of service attitude). Innovation and creativity. Financial performance.

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

The Star Wars website gives this definition, “The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together.” Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money.

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Stop Managing Your Career

In the CEO Afterlife

Inherent in the definition of career is the opportunity to progress. If you do, you need to reassess your values and ethics. Getting ahead” was my father’s way of saying it. Notwithstanding politics, nowhere is the notion of upward mobility more prevalent than in the world of business. You owe it to yourself.

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Take a chance on talent (from #SHRM17)

Surviving Leadership

But he clearly had an eye from problem solving, a creative mind, and a work ethic like no other. I always asked candidates to prepare a presentation on leadership for my hiring process, and Sam’s was incredibly well-researched, coherent, interesting, and definitely helped the audience learned. So I hired him. And he was amazing.

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Integrity: conversation with a teenager :: Women on Business

Women on Business

I was recently stumped when faced with addressing a friends’ son who is unfortunately having to learn the word (or the anti-definition of the word) through observing the actions of his own father. By Webster’s definition it means “the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; incorruptibility.&#