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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. They provide insights into strategic HR planning, the dynamic between HR and line managers, and global trends impacting the field. Laszlo Bock’s “ Work Rules!

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Leading a “Mozart”

Lead Change Blog

The goal is not to change them but to effectively lead them in a fashion that harnesses their creative energies. Since “Mozarts” live in the big picture world it is key they be given an accurate view at the macro level but not be micro managed. They can be successfully led but are poorly managed.

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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design

Harvard Business Review

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. “The combined impact of protocol and space design was a ‘game-changer,’” according to Ulrich.

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

In most organizations talent management is left to direct supervisors. The problem for continuous improvement is that managers tend to hire for expertise, not for behaviors such as improvement. Scott Beaird, Director of Talent Management at Tufts Medical Center , told me, "We hire what the manager wants.

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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.” Many managers introduce a new strategy and organization structure and declare victory—often at their peril.

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