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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. Human resource management (HRM) has always been a challenging field.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. Human resource management (HRM) has always been a challenging field.

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are. One of their key findings was that humans are consistently overconfident, suggesting that we generally have poor meta-knowledge.