Building More Effective Organizations: HR Management and Performance in Practice
Author: Ronald J Burk
Organizations today are facing heightened challenges in their efforts to perform effectively. These challenges are reflected in the failure of many long-standing organizations and the shortened tenure of senior level executives. There is increasing agreement that the unique competitive advantage organizations have today lies in their people, their human resource management practices and their cultures. All other elements of production can be readily obtained, bought or copied. We are now in the era of human capital; to be successful organizations need to unleash the talents of their people. Fortunately we now have considerable understanding of what high performing organizations look like. However, a large gap still exists between what we know and what managers actually do. With contributions from a team of leading academics and practitioners, Building More Effective Organizations provides an extensive survey of human resource management and the organizational practices associated with the high performance of individuals.
Table of Contents:
List of figures viiiList of tables ix
List of contributors x
Foreword xii
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xxvi
Building more effective organizations
Building more effective organizations: A primer Ronald J. Burke 3
Enhancing individual health and performance
Enthusiastic employees David Sirota Louis A. Mischkind Michael I. Meltzer 35
Organizational citizenship behavior, transaction cost economics, and the flat world hypothesis Dennis W. Organ Jeong-Yeon Lee 57
Best practices for work stress and well-being: Solutions for human dilemmas in organizations Alvin L. Gibson James Campbell Quick 84
Enhancing staff well-being for organisational effectiveness Ivan T. Robertson Gordon Tinline Susannah Robertson 110
Enhancing organizational health and performance
Maximizing the value of leadership development: key questions (and some answers) Steve Kerr Steffen Landauer Elise Lelon 127
Best practices in building more effective teams Kevin C. Stagl Eduardo Salas 160
Career development processes in organizations Yehuda Baruch Sherry E. Sullivan 183
Fostering organizational learning: Creating and maintaining a learning culture Silvia Salas Mary Ann Von Glinow 207
Work-life balance, best practices and healthy organisations: A European perspective Christina Purcell Suzan Lewis Janet Smithson Sue Caton 228
Diversity management practices in leading edge firms Val Singh 252
Transforming organizations
Making it better - achieving outstanding performance in manufacturing organizations John Bessant Dave Francis 281
Culture change in a financial services organisation Emma Preece 293
Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system Barry Colbert Elizabeth Kurucz David Wheeler 310
Be in to Win - from absence to attendance in Royal Mail Group Stuart Kennedy Tony McCarthy 334
Transforming a company into a community Philip Mirvis 353
Index 371
Interesting textbook: Finance for NonFinancial Managers or Work Consumerism and the New Poor
Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise
Author: Andrew Rich
Think tanks are nonprofit policy research organizations that provide analysis and expertise to influence policymakers. From the 1970s their number exploded in the U.S. and their proliferation represented a hope that lawmaking might become better informed and more effective as a result of these expert contributions. Instead, as this book documents, the known ideologies of many, especially the newer, think tanks currently contribute to an environment in which they differ little from advocacy organizations, promoting points of view and preordained policy prescriptions. As a result, they fail to achieve desired influence and undermine their credibility.
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