Managing Human Resources

Human Resources: Stories (Tin House New Voice)

Customer Review: sharp new writer with engaging imagination
I highly recommend Josh’s brilliant first book - these stories not only stand on their own, but together crystalize into insightful, compassionate, and humourous perspectives on humanity
Customer Review: Quirky, multifaceted, cleverly amusing…
This gem of a collection of short stories is full of magical near-realism, and also some very knowing glimpses into the underbelly of people’s private lives - hidden secrets, motives and thoughts that few admit but many will share. It is very amusing and entertaining while also prodding some uncomfortable truths that some might wish to keep hidden.

Avoiding Legal Liability for Adult Educators, Human Resource In more pristine times, the primary reason for providing effective training was to increase the probability of correct and consistent performance on the job. Adult educators and managers of human resource development programs should be concerned for a secondary reason. This reason involves the prevention of legal liability. In this sense, effective training and development becomes a defense to an allegation of failure to adequately train the organizations employees.
Customer Review: Avoiding Legal Liability
Avoiding Legal Liability does a thorough job in covering the many legal issues facing the HR Dept., instructional designers and adult educators; all in a span of seven chapters. With a slant towards training, topics such as negligence, adventure training, diversity training, distance learning, copyright infringement, and intellectual property, just to name a few, are all discussed with remarkable clarity. Included in the discussion are the legal problems/issues that may arise from each, a substantial dose of relevant case studies and an outline to mitigate potential liability.
Customer Review: The perfect textbook for MBA and Education Department curriculums
Providing any form of service or product to the general public must always take into consideration issues of liability should members of that public take issue with what was proffered with respect to matters of health, safety, and associated or unforeseen consequences. The simple fact is that a successful law suit can break a company or devastate an individual. In “Avoiding Legal Liability For Adult Educators, Human Resources Developers And Instructional Designers”, John Sample draws upon his thirty years of experience and expertise as a consultant, educator, and administrator in human resource management, training and development to provide a comprehensive, practical, real-world instruction manual on protecting an organization and its employees from legal liability lawsuits. “Avoiding Legal Liability” covers such cogent issues as liability and the training/development enterprise, equal employment opportunity and related liability, occupational safety and health related liability, negligence avoidance training and related liability, adventure training and New Age related experiential learning liability, intellectual property (copyright & trade secretes) liability issues, corporate ethics and the federal sentencing guidelines. A core addition to personal, professional, organizational, academic, and community library Judicial Studies & Practices reference collections and supplemental reading lists, “Avoiding Legal Liability” is enhanced with the additional inclusion of a number of appendices which include a glossary of basic legal terms, summaries of relevant federal statues, federal and state requirements or harassment prevention training, OSHA general industry training requirements, as well safety and workplace violence training resources. Also included is a supervisory audit of training related liability, checklists for compliance with the TEACH Act and the Fair use Privilege for Educators. There is an example of a ‘Permission Request’ letter, guidelines for copyright registration, and examples of non-disclosure agreements for training materials, a trade secrets agreement, and a non-compete agreement. With the addition of both a Reference and an Index section, “Avoiding Legal Liability” is also the perfect textbook for MBA and Education Department curriculums as well.

Human Resource for Results (Pla Results) Expanding on the highly effective “PLA Results Series”, Goodrich and Singer offer PLA colleagues a strategic approach to the human resources (HR) function in the library. The book focuses on a variety of possible projects and how to staff them, allowing each library to decide where and how to focus their attention. It includes everything needed to deploy HR strategically in the library and: align staff resources with what needs to be done; identify the right people for the right jobs and develop meaningful job descriptions; create a high-performance work force through performance plans, coaching, and evaluation; and retain the best and brightest by creating the culture, designing expectations, and building commitment.Packed with practical tools, this hands-on guide includes a familiar case study that illustrates how the information can be applied, along with twelve workforms to help you collect and organize the data you need to make informed HR decisions. Using this project-based approach, library directors, administrators and human resource managers can identify and motivate the right team members to achieve the library’s goals and service priorities as identified in the planning process.

Design for Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources

For more than 30 years, John Tillman Lyle (1934-1998) was one of the leading thinkers in the field of ecological design. Design for Human Ecosystems, originally published in 1985, is his classic text that explores methods of designing landscapes that function in the sustainable ways of natural ecosystems.The book provides a framework for thinking about and understanding ecological design, along with a wealth of real-world examples that bring to life Lyle’s key ideas. Lyle traces the historical growth of design approaches involving natural processes, and presents an introduction to the principles, methods, and techniques that can be used to shape landscape, land use, and natural resources in an ecologically sensitive and sustainable manner. Lyle argues that careful design of human ecosystems recognizes three fundamental concerns: scale (the relative size of the landscape and its connections with larger and smaller systems), the design process itself, and the underlying order that binds ecosystems together and makes them work. He discusses the importance of each of these concerns, and presents a workable approach to designing systems that effectively accounts for all of them. The theory presented is supported throughout by numerous case studies that illustrate its practical applications.This new edition features a foreword by Joan Woodward, noted landscape architecture professor and colleague of Lyle, that places the book in the context of current ecological design thinking and discusses Lyle’s contributions to the field. It will be a valuable resource for landscape architects, planners, students of ecological design, and anyone interested in creating landscapes that meet the needs of all an area’s inhabitants-human and nonhuman alike.
Customer Review: Another classic for future generations
John Lyle continues his seminal work presented in “Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development”. Any one interested in designing deep structures of urban spaces into sustainable environments would benefit greatly from reading this book. This book also covers rural development as well. Propagation of water flows for maximum beneficial inter-relationships is one particula r topic of interest for me.

I highly recommend this book!

Managing Human Resources 5th International Edition 2007 623 Pages in quality glossy colored paper.

Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, Second Edition What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value?

In the new edition of her ground-breaking book, Linda Holbeche answers this question and provides the tools and insights to help HR managers and directors add value to the organization by implementing effective HR initiatives that are aligned to core business strategies.

Featuring updated profiles and case studies from top HR strategists who have used their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, 2nd edition provides inspiration and guidance on how to apply the theory to challenges in your organization.

Learn how you can strengthen and prove the relationship between people strategy and business success through your approach to performance and development and impress at the highest levels with this new edition of an HR classic.

Linda Holbeche is Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Linda chairs and speaks at meetings and conferences worldwide and appeared at number six in Human Resources magazine’s HR most influential 2008 roll call of top industry thinkers.

Managing Human Resources - 4th (Fourth) Edition (2004) 4th Edition. 677 pages.

The Comprehensive, All-in-One HR Operating Guide: 539 Ready to Adapt Human Resource Letters, Memos, Procedures, Practices, Forms . . . and More

Customer Review: Very Comprehensive Information
This product will be my lifesaver, it contains much more data than I initially thought it had. I am very glad I purchased this product. I would recommend it to everyone I know in the HR field.

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