Choosing a human resources consultant


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This 6-hour free course explored issues around selecting and using a consultant, including fitting a consultant to a task, fees and evaluating work.




Leap Into HR Consulting: How to Move Successfully from Corporate to HR Consulting


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A must-have for HR Consultants, this is a practical, step-by-step guide with tangible insider tips, knowledge, and the 5 C's methodology. It is designed to guide you in setting up, launching, and running your HR Consultancy business.




Human Resources Strategies


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The digitalization of businesses calls for new forms of leadership and collaboration, as traditional human resources strategies are reaching their limits. Personal responsibility, networking and diversity are increasingly recognized as key prerequisites for agility, adaptability and innovativeness. This book encourages HR managers who want to be pioneers of, or support, digital transformation to rethink their HR strategies. It begins with a clear illustration of the difference between stability and agility in leadership and organization. Building on this, it then guides the reader through a broad range of relevant HR topics and how they compare to the new strategic orientation. All major aspects of HR management are addressed, including recruitment, learning, talent management, remuneration, performance management, corporate training, executive development and change management. Providing a comprehensive, practical, differentiated and non-dogmatic alternative to traditional approaches, the book is a must-read for all those who are concerned with sustainable HR management in the era of digitalization.




Cambridge English for Human Resources Student's Book with Audio CDs (2)


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Summary: "Cambridge English for Human Resources covers a wide range of topics of concern to human resources and personnel development, from understanding the essentials of resourcing and outsourcing through to strategic HR. The ten standalone units allow learners to focus on the areas of HR and Personnel Development most important to them. As well as teaching the specialist vocabulary and theory of HR, the course also develops job-specific skills such as coaching, designing and implementing appraisal systems, managing conflict and others."--Cambridge website, viewed 1st Sept, 2011.




Human Resource Selection


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HUMAN RESOURCE SELECTION 6e, by Gatewood, Feild & Barrick, offers advanced treatment of the technical issues involved in developing and implementing selection programs within organizations. The authors emphasize up-to-date research and applications for those already working in selection and engage with current examples and exhibits. This streamlined text covers legal, global and ethical concerns, psychometric measurement concepts, job analysis, predictors of job performance and criteria measures.




Human Resource Management in Consulting Firms


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This book presents insider reports from high-profile international consultancies which allow practitioners, scholars and graduates to gain a rare, unvarnished insight into people management in business consulting. In addition to a comprehensive overview of existing H-R systems, the book provides details of practices dealing with issues such as value-oriented corporate culture, gender diversity management, employability, leadership development, knowledge management and employer branding.




Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid Sized Companies


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There is a glut of human resources books aimed at large companies. But Managing Human Resources in Small and Mid-Sized Companies remains the only book to address the unique challenges confronting organizations in the 100 to 1,500 employee range. And it is now completely updated to reflect current legal requirements, compensation trends, advances in information management, and much more. This comprehensive, clearly written guide shows readers how to: * set up or expand a human resources department * recruit, interview, select, and orient new employees * establish compensation, benefits, and performance appraisal programs




Hack Recruiting


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Praise for Hack Recruiting "It is a brilliant piece of work. A must-read for those of us in global corporations, or companies of any size really, that seek to act NOW." --Julia Martensen, Head of HR Strategy and Innovation at DB Schenker. "Victor Assad uncovers longstanding empirical research from I/O psychologists on how to best match job candidates to jobs and the best of today's digital technology. He sees a world (that is emerging today) in which AI ontologies (which are identifying information and relationships about today's global and diverse workforces) will make significant improvements for matching candidates to jobs while reducing recruiting cycle times, costs and selection biases. Victor points out that HR now has the digital tools it needs to dramatically transform recruiting and the role of the recruiter. HR can now build strategic talent pools, improve the employee experience, and digitally collect insightful analytics that will open up a new era of understanding on what truly drives employee performance and innovation." --Angela Hood, Founder and CEO of ThisWay Global. "Must read book if you are a recruiter or talent acquisition head. It goes over best practices and hacks each step of recruiting." --Sandeep Purwar, Founder/CEO, Bevov




The Human Resources Program-Evaluation Handbook


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The Human Resources Program-Evaluation Handbook is the first book to present state-of-the-art procedures for evaluating and improving human resources programs. Editors Jack E. Edwards, John C. Scott, and Nambury S. Raju provide a user-friendly yet scientifically rigorous "how to" guide to organizational program-evaluation. Integrating perspectives from a variety of human resources and organizational behavior programs, a wide array of contributing professors, consultants, and governmental personnel successfully link scientific information to practical application. Designed for academics and graduate students in industrial-organizational psychology, human resources management, and business, the handbook is also an essential resource for human resources professionals, consultants, and policy makers.