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Talent is one of the most important strategic resources in the modern economy: it is the resource that creates economic growth through exceptional innovation, service, and performance.

This book takes the reader through the challenges of working with teams, the various contexts and understanding of what team effectiveness means.

This book presents the gospel as a sensemaking tool to critically examine five areas of personal leadership effectiveness, namely desire, identity, dignity, motive, and ambition.

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2025 - Wellness & WellbeingHappiness at work matters.

"e;Haudan's approach helps organizations bring strategies to life by engaging the hearts and minds of their people.

Knowledge management goes beyond data and information capture in computerized health records and ordering systems; it seeks to leverage the experiences of all who interact in healthcare to enhance care delivery, teamwork, and organizational learning.

A team of interdisciplinary experts provides an up-to-date review of current theories, empirical research, and management strategies that will help organizations address workplace bullying through both prevention and intervention.

This best-selling textbook addresses the need for an introduction to econometrics specifically written for finance students.

Real Research: Research Methods Sociology Students Can Use is an innovative text that takes a holistic approach to the subject by discussing each step in the research process within the context of a particular method.

What do we know about economic development in Africa?

With a highly pragmatic, yet rigorous and pragmatically driven approach, this edited book explores demonstrates qualitative research with an applied approach.

Ground Rules for Social Research is a user-friendly resource for people doing small-scale social research projects.

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effectiveness of government are substantial.

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L’intelligence émotionnelle exerce une influence majeure sur chacun d’entre nous et sur le rendement des organisations.

With disruptive technologies on the horizon, traditional employment models are becoming outdated.

This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed into managerial and organisational fields.

The Second Edition of this student favourite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question to designing the project and writing it up.

The author draws on his experience and expertise as a Senior Global Executive, CIO, Strategist, Scientist, and Inventor, to provide an in-depth look at the 'learning layer' a new business phenomenon that merges people and systems into a whole new operation and how it will transform the performance of any organization.

Virtual work and teams have become normal in organizations around the world.

This new edition aims to convince social scientists to take a counterfactual approach to the core questions of their fields.

RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints.

The decennial census was the federal government's largest and most complexpeacetime operation.

This book is about humanizing business.

The purpose of this book is to awaken leaders to the unique opportunities now present in the areas typically delegated to Health and Safety.

Emotional Abuse and Neglect in the Workplace tackles the big questions: How does emotional neglect of employees affect an organization?

Although there are plenty of books that discuss the principles, the philosophy and the techniques of research in organisations, it is much harder to find information on what doing research in organisations actually involves in practice.

A Short Guide to Equality Risk analyses the concepts, theories, and issues associated with the implementation in organisations and the service environment of an Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination (EDD) Agenda.

This book takes a strategic approach and provides a comprehensive review of books and papers about human resource management (HRM) and labor relations management in China, especially since China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

Winner of the 2025 Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division Book AwardVolunteers play a critical role in serving communities and delivering public services.

Offers researchers and teachers an introduction to clustering, with R code and real data to facilitate interaction with the concepts.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book underscores the crucial link between leadership and human resource management (HRM) and their collective impact on organizational outcomes.

This second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques.

Improve engagement, productivity, and motivation with effective employee recognition Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies gives you the tools and information you need to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement with a successful employee recognition program.

Delivers a strong contribution to the field of research on emotions in organizations offering original pieces of research.

Modern organisations are subject to continual change - technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed.

The composition of the American population is rapidly changing from a white, male dominated society to one that is so diverse it will soon be without any single, dominant race, ethnicity, or gender.

To many, the world of employment law can seem complex and confusing.

Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years.

The history of public personnel administration is as old as human civilization itself: Persia, China, Assyria, Egypt, and Rome all practiced strategic personnel management, some systematically and others unsystematically.

From getting started to completing your research project, this book provides a practical guide to using QSR NVivo.

Novel collection of essays addressing contemporary trends in political science from a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary scholars.

The prevailing orthodoxy of public service management is that it should be marketized, commissioned, contracted, managed, measured, and evaluated.

Using secondary data offers unique opportunities and challenges.

Published with the Association for Coaching, Diversity in Coaching explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching.

In this passionately argued book, James M.

This book aims to spur critical thought on the various dimensions and impacts of "e;responsibility"e; for organizations, including companies, institutions, and governments, while considering international differences and similarities, as well as global challenges.

An in-depth look at current issues, new research findings, andinterdisciplinary exchange in survey methodology andprocessing Survey Measurement and Process Quality extends the marriage oftraditional survey issues and continuous quality improvementfurther than any other contemporary volume.