Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book HR MANAGER A ZOOKEEPER written by DR. M. K. RAVI and published by DR. M. K. RAVI. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HR Manager: A Zookeeper is a philosophy containing the power to achieve true control over employees of the organization by identification of basic nature or personality of individual employees and by applying the tactics of a zookeeper. In this book, I present a philosophy that is relevant to everyone, regardless of age, sex, or nationality. If you pick this book up and read it to its conclusion, I can guarantee that you will clearly visualize a path to success opening up before you, especially if you are handling manpower. In almost all organizations, Human Resource policies are made to control and regulate the workforce of the organization. The HR department finds that the implementation of the HR policies is somehow difficult with some of its employees. This is because in an organization different types of people with different types of personality works. All these personalities have something unique while something in common. These personality differences lead to conflict among the workers or between organizations and workers. Good HR managers understand the personality and type of the worker to resolve the issues. A human being's personality matches with certain animal’s personality. The HR Manager will be able to act as an organization zookeeper, who is able to control and regulate various types of animals, birds, and creatures types of employees. The application of various management theories often presented difficulties while solving practical conflict resolution problems. There is an acute shortage of books on the types of human personality matching with animal’s personality. I wrote this book especially for Human Resource Managers, which will certainly help them to understand the various types of employees to control, regulate, make teams, make pairs or groups enhance the productivity of performance in organizations. CONTENTS The book contents include the human being as a social animal, the role of Functional Managers or Human Resource Manager as Zookeeper, various similar personality characteristics of human and animal /birds /reptiles /creatures like Ant, Bull, Cat, Crow, Crocodile, Dogs, Donkey, Elephant, Fish, Fox, Giraffe, Goat, Horse, Hippo, Lion, Monkey, Pig, Rat, Scorpio, Snake, Tiger, etc. Like most of the managers, prefer to identify the ‘Horses’ of their departments, whereas they want to kick out the ‘Donkey’ type of employees from their department. Every organization is looking for an ideal employee having a radical performance like ‘Horse’, having a dominating personality like a ‘Lion’, who can find the solution of the problems of the organization by sniffing like a ‘Dog’, who can follow up the organization's objectives like ‘Ant’, Who is farsighted like a ‘Giraffe’, Who applies his intelligence and acts like a ‘Fox’, Who applies his full energy to achieve organization's objectives like a ‘Bull’ or one who has big sensory organs like ears, nose with a sharp memory like an ‘Elephant’. In most the organization horses, donkeys, monkeys, lions, and foxes are an easily identifiable class of animals among workers. This book extends the classification of such personalities to understand and taming techniques used by the management. IMPORTANT FOR The book will be useful for all HR Managers, functional heads, entrepreneurs, directors, functional managers, management students, and all readers. BENEFITS OF THIS BOOK · Identity makes a difference to distinguish who an individual is and what propels him or her. Being mindful of one's identity and inspiration might empower an individual to overcome feelings and inclinations when stood up to with a choice. Self-knowledge might moreover offer assistance to a person to use information more effectively to improve decision-making. Knowing employee's identities can offer assistance to managers not as it were to know them but moreover to oversee them productively. on the off chance that you'll distinguish what basic type of representatives supervisors have, and after that recognize their interesting unreasonable behaviors, managers will be in a much better position to manage these behaviors and, eventually, reach their objectives. Identity could be a guide to managers that make a difference in their planning and execution. · Making managing people enchantment: This book makes a difference within the understanding of the identities of employees which can Inspire, and Improve, not as it were the managers but to the organization. Whether a manager or an entrepreneur searching for guidance in managing the people of their organization successfully, this book could be a must-read for managers looking to build effective and economical departments or teams. This manual contends that in the event that they are not understanding individuals, not analyzing their identity characteristics, they are already losing. It helps managers, why category creation among employees should be viewed as another column of business strategy, along with efficiency. Anyone looking to build and manage a business successfully should read this book cover to cover. · Understanding the employee's nature can improve a manager's efficiency, effectiveness, and time administration abilities. Understanding employee personality types can diffuse clashes before they arise. Understanding personality type helps managers to find the proper work for the employee. For example, in case the employee is very extroverted, he or she may not perform well in a position where he or she doesn’t connect with people. Meanwhile, an introvert probably isn’t attending to be as satisfied in a customer service position.

Download or read book The Manager s Guide to HR written by Max Muller and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If managing people was tricky when the first edition of this all-encompassing guide was written, then dealing with the social-media-addicted, litigation-loving, outrageously entitled nightmares on feet of today is just downright heart-attack-inducing. It's a good thing that management's most trusted HR manual has been fully updated!Extensively revised, the second edition of The Manager's Guide to HR covers all the key areas of the original edition--including hiring and firing, benefits, compensation, performance evaluations, and more--and brings readers up to speed on current developments in employment law, including: * How social media is changing the recruitment landscape * Shifting labor standards regarding compensation and benefits * The National Labor Relations Board's stance on work-related employee speech on social media * The Employee Retirement Income Security Act * New record-keeping requirements * Amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act * And moreFeaturing step-by-step guidance on everything from COBRA compliance to privacy issues, this long-trusted resource is now once again the most up-to-date, invaluable resource any manager of personnel could have.

Download or read book The Set up to fail Syndrome written by Jean-François Manzoni and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation.

Download or read book The Way of the HR Warrior written by Monica Frede and published by LifeTree Media. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Resources has immense power to affect an organization’s bottom line as well as its culture, but it gets a bad rap. In The Way of the HR Warrior Monica Frede and Keri Ohlrich aim to inspire an HR revolution. The Way of the HR Warrior is a guide for HR professionals who really care to demonstrate the true power of the HR department to influence business strategy and the bottom line, especially in the changing landscape of business with a multi-generational and global workforce, the gig economy, the knowledge economy, the rise of conscious consumerism, and increasing regulations. The list of challenges is long, but a common thread impacting the success every business has is its human capital. When management empowers their HR department and the HR professionals step up and master the fundamental competencies of their position, those who work up close and personal with people in the office can take up their rightful role as an HR Warrior! An HR Warrior is courageous, humble, accurate, resilient, goal-oriented, and exemplary. Alongside the practical advice in the book, readers will find real-life stories from Ohlrich and Frede about how they have applied the CHARGE framework in their own careers and organizations to great effect in their 25 years of experience as HR leaders working for small organizations, start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. Ohlrich and Frede bring a warm, purposeful, heart-centered toughness to the role of the HR professional that is both instructive and inspiring. Through their CHARGE framework, they share their tough-love approach to developing the core skills needed by HR professionals to become HR Warriors. In this book, readers will: See the potential impact they can have on their organizations Identify ways to align their efforts with their organization’s business goals Reveal areas for personal growth and professional development using self and workplace assessment tools Be inspired by real stories from the front lines of human resources in a variety of work environments Witty and brutally honest, this book is for anyone who makes HR their business.

Download or read book Human Resources Or Was It Human Remains written by Andrew Wyndham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want an HR text book this book is probably not for you. If you want a unique insight into some of the weird and wonderful true stories that happened during a twenty year career in Human Resources it is. What strange things do people put on application forms? How do you tell someone that they smell? What funny things happen to HR Managers? What happens with personal relationships in the office? What sorts of thefts, fiddles and criminals did you come across? What strange disciplinaries have you dealt with? Does work and personal life ever collide? The world of employment is one of the few things in life that we all have in common and the way that people behave in this aspect of their lives never ceases to amaze. It is a glimpse into the strange and sometimes dark corners of HR and just when you think that you have seen it all, there is always someone, somewhere, who will do something to surprise you. Some stories are happy, some sad, some funny, some bad. Was it human resources or was it human remains? I like to think that it was both, and everything in between. TOC: Introduction Employing all sorts of folk That touchy issue of personal hygiene Strange things that happened to this HR Manager Personal relationships in the workplace Theft, fiddles and disciplinaries HR Managers and colleagues Managers with problems In work, out of work Police matters nasties and nutters Death, injury and sadness Training courses, why? Sickness, absence and wasters The exit door The dreaded tribunal Over 50,000 words and names changed to protect the innocent.

Download or read book HRM and Performance written by David E. Guest and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between HRM and performance has become an important policy issue at both a national and a corporate level. HRM and Performance draws on the knowledge and expertise of a number of leading international scholars in the field of HRM to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of HRM and identify fruitful directions for theory, research and practice. A central question throughout is - what's next for HRM and what are the keys to the future of managing people and performance?

Download or read book The Peter Principle written by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation’s president—will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do—why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.

Download or read book HR in the Corporate World the Unveiling of the Dark Side written by H. R. HR Stories and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human resources professionals are given a great deal of ethical and legal responsibilities. In recruiting, training, terminating and working with employees, there are a great deal of ethical decisions to be made. These decisions can have a huge impact on the business at large. I caution, Human Resources is not for the weak at heart. It takes a strong individual to be an advocate for justice and fairness. The pressures of the role are more emotionally strenuous than any other position within the corporate environment. Telling a manager that they cannot write-up an employee simply because they "don't like them" or not supporting management with unethical and sometimes unlawful actions or finding justifiable cause in an investigation can cause severe and sustain retaliatory actions. It is through these experiences and more that I am able to unveil the dark side of HR in the corporate world.

Download or read book Human Resource Strategic Benefits To written by Johnny Ch LOK and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does need to test the applicant's psychological behavior in the interview process?To answer this question, we need to know why any large or middle size organizations which need have human resource department. To challenge of today's HR managers is to create a pool of good employees in the organization. It starts from selection process of the employees. So, interview has been used as an important selection method by HR managers for long time. The cost of rehiring the importance of hiring the right person for right position first. It requires a reliable and valid interview process. Although, any interview won't guarantee 100 percent success in hiring the best employees into any organization, but the proper application is at least, will improve the chances of hiring the best applicant for the job the organization. The importance is given to the selection of right employees for the right positions. Firms are now realizing the value of the good employees because who can make a difference through their job performance. So, various selection methods are now being used to identify the right candidate. " Interview" has emerged as a very useful tool in this regard. It is a very common selection method and has a high predictive validity for job performance ( Robertson, & Smith , 2001). The main purpose of the interview is to select the right candidate for the right job. The importance of conducting an effective interview is also rising. So consensus was found among the HR experts regarding the effective interview techniques. There are a number of existing literatures regarding the techniques of an effective interview, but every few literatures exist regarding a systematic approach of conducting exist regarding a systematic approach of conducting an effective interview. This is a very few literatures exist regarding a complete interview process that shows a clear path to the employers for selecting right employees. A lot of interview technique are available, but the problem arises regarding the use of these techniques in a concrete manner. A systematic approach of interview will facilitate the tasks of HR managers in selecting the right applicant for the right position. ( Stevens, 1997) author indicated the whole process of the interview has been described in terms of "3D"- Development, discussion and decision. This study is particularly important for three reasons. First , it will help the HR mangers to think about the employee selection interview in a concrete manner. Second, it will help them to use a number of interview techniques in an effective way that will ultimately increase the chance of hiring the right person for the right position. Third, it will enrich the existing literature of selection interview. ( Stevens, 1997) author also explained that the growing importance of good employees will cause a challenge to the HR managers. The selection process of today's HR manager is becoming complex and challenging. Undoubtedly, the overall aim, of the selection process is to identify the candidates who are suitable for the vacancy or wider requirement of the HR plan. " Interview" has been used as a ' critical selection method ' by HR managers. The interview is the most valid method in determining an applicant's organizational fit, level of motivation and inter-personal selects.Whetton & Cameron (2002) cited steps of process of conducting an interview, what they named as People-oriented selection interview process. Here is explains the interview process: P=prepare, E=establish rapport, O=obtain information, P=provide information, C= lead top close and E= evaluate.

Download or read book Work Rules written by Laszlo Bock and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work -- and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of Work Rules!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including: Take away managers' power over employees Learn from your best employees-and your worst Hire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find them Pay unfairly (it's more fair!) Don't trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the future Default to open-be transparent and welcome feedback If you're comfortable with the amount of freedom you've given your employees, you haven't gone far enough. Drawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, Work Rules! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Bock takes us inside one of history's most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of intensive worker R&D into principles that are easy to put into action, whether you're a team of one or a team of thousands. Work Rules! shows how to strike a balance between creativity and structure, leading to success you can measure in quality of life as well as market share. Read it to build a better company from within rather than from above; read it to reawaken your joy in what you do.

Download or read book Because I m the HR Assistant That s Why written by Roman Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I'm The HR Assistant That's Why!;

Download or read book Turbo Charging the HR Function written by Paul Mooney and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many who work in human resources feel sidelined or under appreciated and this text asserts that they will continue to do so unless they turbo-charge their teams. This practical guide provides anecdotes, case studies and self-assessment tools to do just that.

Download or read book Hard Won Wisdom written by Jathan Janove and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They did what?! Workplace war stories you can learn from. From dealing with underperformers to fighting off lawsuits, employee problems are the bane of a manager's existence. So what do most do? Ignore them! And that's a recipe for more problems. Written by a seasoned HR expert and employment attorney, Hard-Won Wisdom takes you inside the messy reality of situations gone wrong, including: * A joking comment taken as a command * An email exchange that escalates ridiculously out of control * A request for confidentiality that backfires in a big way * The right employee...fired the wrong way * The wrong employee...hired the right way These sometimes funny, always cautionary tales reinforce crucial lessons for managers. From failing to give feedback and withholding key information to exercising poor judgment and making faulty assumptions, every story highlights the role management plays in exacerbating (or easing) trouble. And each story suggests simple strategies to turn the situation around. The memorable lessons help managers motivate underachievers, defuse angry employees, discipline without inviting legal action-and handle every tricky-people issue they simply can't avoid.

Download or read book Adventures of an HR Manager written by Jeremy Francis and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger is in a tight spot. He has 5 days to redo an HR presentation to the General Manager that went quite badly the first time. He thought he knew what he was doing, but senior management clearly was not impressed. His future with the company depends on not botching the second attempt, because there won't be a third. With limited options, he reaches out to a friend for help, and along the way learns how to make HR a key partner in today's business World.

Download or read book Reshaping HR written by Julie Hodges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the contribution HR can make to how organizations enact change within the context of an environment of increasing complexity driven by global forces for change. In particular the book focuses on the role of HR in creating value for organizations and engaging stakeholders during transformations. This aim is achieved in several distinct ways. First, a critical perspective is provided of the role of HR in organizational change by examining evidence-based theories, models and frameworks. Second, the book is grounded in empirical evidence from a study conducted by the authors amongst managers and HR professionals across the globe. This provides unique data on the challenges and opportunities which the practice of HR faces within the context of organizational change. Third, consideration is given as to how HR can play an active and constructive role in co-creating sustainable change with managers, employees and other stakeholders. Fourth, the book identifies the capabilities required by HR professionals in order to engage effectively with organizational change. Finally, aware of the dangers of prescriptive lists, the HR practices offered in this book are provided as a basis for amendment, as necessary, by readers depending upon the context of individual organizations. The book will be of value to practising HR professionals as well as students studying HRM and change and development in organizations. Our proposal in this book is that since people are of significant importance to the success of change, and HR knowledge and expertise is vital to the experience and engagement of individuals and teams, internal and external to the organization, there needs to be clarity about the role of HR in transformations. We suggest that HR’s raison d’être is to focus on the people aspect of organizational change and that this needs to be done within the context of improving organizational effectiveness and wellbeing.

Download or read book Human Resources Essentials written by Dave Young and published by Gtm Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast-Track the Growth of Your Business With Effective Strategies for Hiring Best Employees and Managing Them to Their Fullest Potential! Do you know that old saying - the chain is as strong as its weakest link? The same can be said for business, and in the world of small businesses, the links that guide you towards success are you as owner and your employees. How to ensure that every link is solid and unbreakable? With excellent managing skills. You see, if not managed properly, employees will be inefficient, and productivity will drop, which ultimately leads to the business going under. That's why you need to understand the importance of effectively managing your employees so that they can always give 100%. Would you like to become a skilled manager? Would you like to fast-track the growth of your business? Would you like to manage your employees with ease so that everyone is happy? If so, you are in the right place because with Human Resources Essentials: Employee Management & HR Planning Simplified, you will learn all of that and much more! With this guide, you will get step-by-step guides and expert strategies that will transform you into a skilled manager that knows what to do - manage employees effectively, make them happy and productive, develop strategies for recruiting and hiring new employees, etc.