Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced trackerTracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment--how it finds food, travels, and rests. A tracker must know how to find and interpret behavioral clues animals leave behind. This how-to book teaches the basics of being a successful tracker--explaining what to look for to find or identify an animal and how to develop an essential environmental awareness. Also describes aging tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts.
Named as BusinessWeek's #1 Management Educator, expert Dave Ulrich and his team of authors bring human resources a whole new way of thinking and practicing—moving the focus from internal issues to actively helping to set business strategies. Businesses of the future need "all hands on deck" when implementing new ways to stimulate grown and cost efficiency, and this includes human resources. In HR Transformation, the team presents a four-phase model of transformation that shows you step-by-step how to make meaningful progress in contributing to the performance of your company by redesigning HR to work as a strategic partnership. From the “#1 Management Educator & Guru”-BusinessWeek “The authors have presented us with an accessible, readable, and practical illustration of a clear path for successful strategy execution in a complex environment.” -Majed Al Romaithi, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority “HR can only transform organizations if it transforms HR. This book shows us how. HR Transformation would have been important in the past-it is critical now! We are entering a new world. HR Transformation can help our organizations thrive in the midst of uncertainty.” -Marshall Goldsmith, author of the Wall Street Journal bestsellers What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Succession: Are You Ready? “Ulrich and his colleagues talk tough and provide a detailed blueprint for how those of us in the field can use our own tools to do a “720-degree” evaluation of ourselves. We cannot contribute to the success of our organizations until we upgrade ourselves.” -Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School “Based on groundbreaking research with hundreds of companies and thousands of executives, HR Transformation provides compelling theory and practical tools to create alignment between strategy, systems, and people. This important book should be read carefully by leadership teams everywhere.” -Mark Huselid, Professor of HR Strategy, Rutgers University, Co-author of The HR Scorecard, The Workforce Scorecard, and The Differentiated Workforce Turn to the front matter for more than thirty rousing endorsements of HR Transformation. INCLUDES CASE STUDIES FROM Intel, Pfizer, Takeda, Flextronics
HR from the Outside In provides the concepts and tools HR professionals need to excel in six critical competencies: strategic positioner, credible activist, capability builder, change champion, HR innovator and integrator, and technology proponent. The book shows readers how to establish powerful strategies and structure an HR department so that the department delivers long-term value to the organization.
How to Leverage Talent You Don't Own Campbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology. Companies are gaining advantage through a new capability--strategic use of external experts--made possible by technology and the globalization of talent. Leaders everywhere recognize that "lean," "agile," and "fast" strategies require new ways to access and leverage--without owning--key talent to fill critical gaps. As managers seek nontraditional sources of strategic talent and experiment with fast, flexible ways of engaging these experts, they need a new roadmap. This book delivers that roadmap. It tells you how to assess, choose, attract, develop, support, and retain your external talent. Authored by thought leaders and bestselling authors in leadership and talent management who teach and consult globally, Agile Talent reveals how companies such as Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Google, IBM, and Bain Capital organize and manage new forms of talent in innovative ways. Supported by survey data and packed with tools and templates for applying these ideas, this book is the ultimate guide for winning the next war for talent.
Podtitul: Šest kompetencí pro HR budoucnosti
Může řízení lidských zdrojů napomáhat samotnému „podnikání firmy“? Ano, může a musí. A právě způsoby, jak toho může dosáhnout, jsou náplní této knihy. Překlad „bible“ HR business partneringu „HR From the Outside In“ je plný rad a doporučení směrujících pracovníky řízení lidských zdrojů tak, aby dokázali každému v organizaci přinášet hodnotu nového druhu.
Na základě poznatků studie „Human Resource Competency“ Study (HRCS) vás kniha naučí šesti klíčovým dovednostem řízení lidských zdrojů, od umění být strategickým pozicionérem až po roli inovátora a integrátora HR. Dále zjistíte, jak rozvíjet pracovníky HR tak, aby fungovali jako vysoce výkonní a plnohodnotní business partneři, jak nastavit strukturu oddělení řízení lidských zdrojů, aby přinášelo maximální hodnotu, nebo co je třeba pro udržení konkurenceschopnosti a aktuálnosti v neustále se rozšiřujícím světě pracovníků HR.
Pokud jsou vynikající pracovníci HR přizváni, aby se ještě více zapojili do všeobecného fungování společnosti, dokážou přispívat skutečnou, finančně vyjádřitelnou hodnotou k jejímu vyššímu hospodářskému výsledku. Jen málo firem si proto může dovolit luxus nepoložit si následující otázku: „Využíváme plnohodnotně veškeré nadání, kterým v oblasti řízení lidských zdrojů disponujeme?“
