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

HR Digest

By staying agile and embracing continuous learning, HR professionals can navigate these shifts and contribute to the organization’s long-term success. Best HR Books of 2024 Here are the top 7 HR books to read in 2024, along with brief summaries: ‘Victory Through Organization’ by Dave Ulrich et al.

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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

The long-term investment in mental health awareness, education and training will inevitably create returns that outweigh the loss of productivity in the professional world. * * * This post is by Ulrich Kellerer. He is an inspirational business leader, international speaker and mental health activist from Munich, Germany.

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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

For instance, Virginia Tech researcher Ulrich Kirk and his colleagues used a tool of behavioral economics, called the ultimatum game to test the effects of mindfulness on decision making. For leaders, good decision-making ability is not enough to achieve long-term success.

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What Kind of Leadership Works Best at Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Firms like GE and Procter & Gamble have long been seen as crucibles of managerial talent development, in which certain kinds of leaders tend to be forged. Scholars including Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood and Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner have explored the concept of building “leadership brands.”

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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

I see three: Politics : To sustain improvement activities, HR must use its power and influence to help leaders focus on customers, long-term business results, and building capabilities in their people — not a personal or HR agenda. Others say that HR is under-utilized. A supporting role may seem safer.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. ” The Onramp Fellowship’s Caren Ulrich Stacy adds: “This year marks the fourth consecutive annual decline in the number of mid- to senior-level female associates in large law firms.

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