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Are You Chasing a Purple Squirrel? (purple squirrel n: an ideal job candidate who, in reality, does not exist)
Too often, managers waste time chasing a purple squirrel. A sales candidate may be skilled at selling, but can he or she relate to your industry sales cycle, costing systems, delivery schedules, and manufacturing processes? Recruiting talent is the number one issue facing companies today. How do you attract and retain elite talent in today's...
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Esta obra se convertirá en un provechoso libro de consulta, tanto para los estudiantes como para los abogados especializados en estas apreciadas ramas del derecho, pero muy especialmente para los empresarios colombianos, independientemente del tamaño de sus empresas, para que dispongan de una herramienta de orientación al asumir su decisión de crear empresa y todas las sobrevinientes en la vida de la empresa, sin que pierdan de vista el componente...
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¿Qué hará competitivo al profesional latinoamericano en el futuro? Académicas de cuatro países de América Latina -Chile, Colombia, Ecuador y el Perú- abordan la tarea de identificar el perfil de competencias que un profesional deberá reunir para afrontar su futuro laboral. Con rigor y claridad metodológica, las autoras analizan las valoraciones que 81 expertos en talento humano y directivos de empresas dan a una treintena de competencias...
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Pocos estudios abordan lo que explica este libro. Construyendo puentes es un aporte al análisis de la teoría del capital humano desde la perspectiva de la economía de la innovación. A través de la revisión empírica de las condiciones actuales de la educación superior en México, la política de ciencia y tecnología, así como el desempeño productivo de las empresas, se identifican los alcances y límites que tiene la educación para el bienestar...
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The world has witnessed three step functions in technological change: mechanization, electrification, and computerization. These industrial revolutions led to massive increases in productivity and thus the need for fewer workers. With each of these technological breakthroughs, the power balance between companies and workers shifted heavily to companies. The abuses of that power by companies instigated employee unrest and sometimes even armed uprisings....
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Employee Capability Factor, Do you know what that means? How do you identify an employee's Capability Factor, How do you determine your team's Capability Factor, How do you maintain or better still improve your team's Capability Factor. These are some of the questions, that Staff Selection addresses. The book assumes no prior knowledge or training in Human Resources and takes you by the hand, to develop your very own Human Resources Manual in the...
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Hiring the wrong person can be very expensive. Lost wages, lost revenue from poor performance, theft, the list goes on. Not to mention the effect bad hires can have on the other staff. How To Hire The Right People is based on this very simple premise:The more you know about someone BEFORE you hire them, the better your hiring decision is going to be.
When you make better hiring decisions: Your staff produce more They get along better. Your customers...
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This work presents the main types of wages and salaries existing in Brazil, according to the country's labor laws, the main types of positions and functions, socioeconomic and demographic aspects of the labor market, in addition to the factors that are used and/ or that they can help set the salary value of a job or role.
The conceptual aspects of the types of wages, the requirements for the wage to be transformed and/or to be considered as remuneration,...
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"Peirce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours ... and why now is finally the moment for a breakthrough that would give us all more of the precious gift of time." — LINDA McQUAIG, journalist and author
You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.
Recent years have revealed just how...
You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.
Recent years have revealed just how...
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"One of Amazon.com's Best Business Books for 2004" Stephen R. Barley is Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's School of Engineering. Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers...
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The Simple Side of Human Resource Management. Managing People Should Not Be Difficult, Boring or Scary Learn to understand some of the some of the more complex aspects of human resource management in a simpler context.
If you are interested in understanding human resource management in greater detail, but you are just not in the mood for those stale academic written, hard to understand, boring textbooks, then this book is just for you.
If you are...
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In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates....
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If you have always yearned for a career that makes a difference in someone's life and are thinking of opening a staffing service business, then we have a book that can assist you in taking those first steps and can answer all of your questions along the way. This book will assist in helping you decide whether you will offer temporary staffing services, long-term staffing services, or temp-to-perm staffing services. A list of potential sectors that...
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With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?
By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if they've already left, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs,...
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"Winner of the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University" David S. Pedulla is associate professor of sociology at Stanford University.
An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories
Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time...
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Your people are your most valuable asset, and if you want them to excel (and your profits to soar), you'll need to abandon your traditional command-and-control management style and adopt a collaborative, open leadership approach-one that engages and empowers your people. While this isn't a particularly new idea, many leaders, while they may pay lip service to it, don't really understand what it means. And most of those who do get it lack the skills...
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Pontefract combines years of experience and research on employee engagement, behavior and culture to create a work about the three crucial areas of purpose: personal, organizational and workplace role. If all three can come to fruition--if there is a positive interconnection between the three distinct definitions of purpose--the benefits should be felt by employees, teams, the organization, customers, and perhaps most importantly, society as a whole....
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L'Intelligence Organisationnelle est une méthode globale d'organisation de la vie professionnelle et privée par divers outils de développement personnel.
Mis en bouche par Aurélien Coussement, ce livre vous conte les péripéties de Franck, un journaliste sans histoire, qui découvre bien malgré lui les étonnants pouvoirs du cerveau humain. Envoyé pour un article dans une entreprise o visiblement personne n'est pris par le temps ou ne semble...
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Technology is constantly changing our world, leading to more efficient production. But where once technological advancements dramatically increased wages, the median wage has remained stagnant over the past three decades. Many of today's machines have taken over the work of humans, destroying old jobs while increasing profits for business owners and raising the possibility of ever-widening economic inequality.
Here, economist and software company...
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