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

HR Digest

” by Steve Browne , highlighting a people-centric approach, HR leadership, embracing change and innovation, and continuous development. By leveraging data-driven insights, HR professionals can make informed decisions regarding talent acquisition, employee development, and workforce planning, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

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Leading a “Mozart”

Lead Change Blog

But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. The goal is not to change them but to effectively lead them in a fashion that harnesses their creative energies. They can make us better and more vigorous. Sure, they are complex, challenging, and downright difficult.

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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design

Harvard Business Review

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years.

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

When I talk with leaders of process improvement activities about the role of HR in change, however, I generally hear that HR is bureaucratic and a brake on innovation. The aim of a reward system is to turn goals into measures of behavior and outcomes, then allocate rewards based how employees perform against the measures.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? Through low-cost sourcing and manufacturing?

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