Product Description
This title offers fast track route to failsafe strategies for managing people. It covers all the key challenges of people management, from the development of the personnel profession and early theories to the rapid changes of recent years, as skill requirements have grown and the concept of intellectual capital has taken hold. It provides examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful people businesses, including IBM Europe, Southwest Airlines, and Parker Hannifin, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Jeffrey Pfeffer, Mark Huselid, David Ulrich, and Leif Edvinsson. It also includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
From the Back Cover
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: 01 Innovation 02 Enterprise 03 Strategy 04 Marketing 05 Finance 06 Operations and Technology 07 Organizations 08 Leading 09 People 10 Life and Work ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.
About the Author
PHILIP WHITELEY is a specialist writer on management and human resources, contributing to numerous titles including Director, Personnel Today and Computer Weekly. He writes a weekly column on executive remuneration in The Times.
