Companies are finally discovering that their employees aren't just a cost of doing business, but their most valuable asset. The Reward Plan Advantage presents a model for designing performance reward systems that encourage information sharing, feedback, and employee involvement for improved individual performance and organizational success.

The Reward Plan Advantage provides the tools to help you:


* Identify objectives and measurements
* Assess your current situation
* Create recognition plans
* Determine group and project team incentive...

From secretaries to sales reps, data entry clerks to MIS analysts, anyone who teaches others to use computers is a computer trainer. For anyone who has made the leap - or been pushed - from resident computer "expert" to computer trainer, The Accidental Trainer will be an indispensable how-to guidebook. It tells how even the "accidental" trainer can teach the skills that students most need to learn; ensure that students will recall and apply their new skills on the job; and evaluate whether the training worked - and decide what to do if it didn't. Those brand-new to training as well as those...

Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process. Though teams are fast becoming the basic foundation of businesses and other organizations, surprisingly few resources are available to help managers, leaders, and design teams organize an entire business or business unit around teams. In response to requests from their consulting clients, including Texas Instruments and Honeywell, the Mohrmans developed these...

Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams

The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process.

Though teams are fast becoming the basic foundation of businesses and other organizations, surprisingly few resources are available to help managers, leaders, and design teams organize an entire business or business unit around teams. In response to requests from their consulting clients, including Texas Instruments and Honeywell, the Mohrmans...

The Resource of Choice for Those Who Need to Lead

New times demand new competencies. Keep yours ahead of the curve with this engaging guide for the self-directed development of cutting-edge management skills. The Leadership Odyssey outlines thirty-seven abilities and attributes that define the successful manager of the future, and shows how to master them all. Readers will benefit from a synthesis of the latest thought on the subject, plus a wealth of learning tools, self-assessment materials, and expert advice from professionals with more than twenty years of management...

Restore Creativity and Trust to Your Workplace
Much has changed since Driving Fear Out of the Workplace first made the undiscussable discussable back in 1991. Advances in technology, new employee/employer relations, and the corporate push to optimize intellectual capital have introduced a host of new workplace anxieties that, left unaddressed, can seriously inhibit individual performance and cripple a company's ability to compete. Which is why, in this revised edition, authors Ryan and Oestreich revisit their original, best-selling work to confront the fears that permeate today's...

In one comprehensive volume, this book addresses the concerns of human resource professionals who may have little previous experience in computer system development but who must now evaluate alternatives for one of the most expensive and time-consuming decisions they will ever make. Whether your needs are for a system covering fifty employees of fifty thousand, the authors translate even the most advanced technical information into easily understandable, non-technical terms, providing students, specialists, and personnel managers with a complete education on HRMS.

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How Do You Ensure that Employees Are Doing the Right Things?

Many of us ask, -What does it take to do a job well?- and stop there. But there's more to it than that.

What skills and knowledge are necessary for effectiveness in a certain job? Does the employee have the appropriate skills and knowledge, or is some kind of training necessary? Are these job expectations aligned with the culture and strategy of the organization as a whole?

These questions are essential to performance improvement efforts. And competency modeling is designed to help you find answers to...

Today's women work not one but three shifts: the first from nine to five, the second at home, and the third in their minds as they review the decisions and actions of the day. While the first and second shifts may be physically exhausting, the third shift can be psychologically rending because many women use it to second-guess their motives, doubt their choices, and question their trade-offs. Michele Bolton shows women how to turn the third shift into a source of self-awareness and self-confidence instead. Drawing from a three-year study of women in Silicon Valley and her own experiences as a...

The projects that are crucial to today's organizations are unlike any projects teams have faced before. The high-speed, frame-breaking solutions they require can't be arrived at through a traditional step-by-step approach. Teams that want to succeed must be able to reframe problems, challenge preconceptions, come up with new ideas, and learn on their feet. This book gives readers a radical new plan for building these skills. Written by a pioneer in the radical teamwork method and based on proven research and practical experience, it provides concrete guidelines, tools, and techniques for...