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

HR Digest

Karen Beaven’s “ Strategic Human Resource Management: An HR Professional’s Toolkit ” provides a comprehensive guide, covering both technical and personal aspects of talent management, workforce planning, and leveraging new technologies. Laszlo Bock’s “ Work Rules! ‘Work Rules! . ‘Work Rules!

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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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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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