From managing diversity to exploring alternative workplaces to debunking myths about compensation, the topics covered in this collection address how to build organizations with judicious and effective systems for managing people. The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the globe. Articles include: What Holds the Modern Company Together? by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; Pygmalion in Management by J. Sterling Livingston; Six Dangerous Myths About Pay by Jeffrey Pfeffer; Empowerment: The Emperor's New Clothes by Chris Argyris; How the Right Measures Help Teams Excel by Christopher Meyer; Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely; The Alternative Workplace: Changing Where and How People Work by Mahlon Apgar, IV; The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome by Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux; and The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay Conger.
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Readable papers on broad topics in management,
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Whether you're just entering people management or have been doing it for years, this book grabs a selection of readable papers on a variety of topics from compensation to handling 'poor performers' to more effective (but non-manipulative!) means of persuasion.
Especially interesting were the two articles on the performance of individuals and the messages -- both explicit and implicit -- that managers give to their reports and how they affect performance. You should definitely give them a read if you think you have an average to poor performer that you're actively working with right now.
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I ordered 5 books including this one, and all of them are so very shallow, low level and boring.
Some of the chapters were actually copied in several books! Unbelivable. I would probably recommend this series to school children interested in management - nothing more than that.
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Very disappointing.,
This review is from: Harvard Business Review on Managing People (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) (Paperback)
I regularly read great articles from the subscription program of HBR and rely on its contents for great insight into today's business environment.
Unfortunately, the HBR book series make a poor comparison. I have even wonder if HBR is recycling unused, or rejected submissions for these books. I bought Managing People, Brand managment and Marketing and stopped reading each after just two articles. They were just all a waste of time.
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THE ORGANIZATIONAL WORLD is awash with talk of corporate culture-and for good reason. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative workplace, mercenary organizations, low solidarity, effective persuaders, weaker performers, managerial expectations, high sociability, internal commitment, weak performers, external commitment, superior managers, communal culture, effective persuasion, pay practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THE ORGANIZATIONAL WORLD is awash with talk of corporate culture-and for good reason. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative workplace, mercenary organizations, low solidarity, effective persuaders, weaker performers, managerial expectations, high sociability, internal commitment, weak performers, external commitment, superior managers, communal culture, effective persuasion, pay practices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African American, American Express, General Motors, North America, Mobility Initiative, New York, T's James, Executive Summary, Iversen Dunham, Mastiff Wear, Men's Wearhouse, Wall Street Journal, British-Borneo Petroleum Syndicate, East German, T's Creative Workplace Solutions, United Kingdom, University Business School New!
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- Knowledge for Action: A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change by Chris Argyris on page 226, and Back Matter
- Mary Kay - 3rd Edition: Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash on page 245, and page 246
- French Management: Elitism in Action by Jean-Louis Barsoux in Back Matter
- Cooperation and Helping Behavior: Theories and Research by V. Derlega on page 100
- Great Stories of the Sea & Ships by N.C. Wyeth in Back Matter
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- Organization 21C: Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way by Subir Chowdhury in Back Matter
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