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Successful Manager's Hand book can be best described as a hands-on reference manual filled with tips on how to be a more effective manager. The authors all are on the [...]

Employee motivation has been a popular topic of discussion throughout the 20th century. The book Peak Performance by Jon R. Katzenbach provides an excellent overview of strategies organizations may follow [...]

Culture is what finding and keeping great employees is all about. Based on research of best practices at more that 250 companies, Jim Harris and Joan Brannick have compiled practical [...]

Creating the Horizontal Organization of the Future A Review by John Hodge The Horizontal Organization by Frank Ostroff discusses how effective organizations will be organized and managed in the future. [...]

In recent years, several books have been written to discuss the future of human resource management as 2000 approaches. So far, Kraut and Korman have put out the best book [...]

By Jim Harris, Ph.D., and Joan Brannick, Ph.D. AMACOM, 1999, 240 pages, ISBN: 0-8144-0454-5. Research has shown that corporate culture - not salary - is the main reason people join [...]

William J. Rothwell, Robert K. Prescott and Maria W. Taylor Davies-Black Publishing A Review by John Hodge Strategic Human Resource Leader focuses on the role human resource managers will likely [...]

Linking HR to Organizational Strategy As first glance, Strategy Safari appears to be another academic discussion about strategic management. Indeed, the material is based on a review of 2,000 articles [...]

What America Does Right: Learning from Companies That Put People First by Robert H. Waterman Jr. discusses the policies and practices that distinguish successful U.S. companies from their counterparts. Problems [...]

In Rebuilding America's Workforce, Kolberg and Smith join a host of writers critical of the quality of education and training available for U.S. workers. In general, our country's approach to [...]

With Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage, David Jamieson and Julie O'Mara join a host of authors who focus on the demographic changes occurring in the U.S. workforce. Usually, [...]

The national debate on the appropriateness and effectiveness of affirmative action programs will probably continue, but the ongoing diversification of America's workforce requires the effective use of all employees now. [...]

By Ronald E. Purser and Steven Cabana The Free Press, 1998, 360 pages, ISBN: 0-684-83734-X. Traditional, hierarchical organizations are out of touch with reality as are radical change efforts including [...]

By Anne Bruce and James S. Pepitone McGraw-Hill, 1999, 176 pages, ISBN: 0-07-071868-7. Written in simple, down-to-earth language, the book shows managers not only how to motivate employees but how [...]

Many managers will tell you that the last thing they need is another book on decision making. But that's just what I'm recommending. Heads You Win doesn't provide any ground-breaking [...]

Organizations Need To Be Adaptable And Flexible With their book Corporation on a Tightrope, John G. Sifonis and Beverly Goldberg join a growing list of writers critical of the way [...]

The American Mosaic discusses issues related to the continuing diversification of the U.S. workforce. Although there are many quality publications on this issue The American Mosaic is an excellent addition. [...]

Healing the Wounds by avid M. Noer is written to provide managers with strategies for managing the problems of downsizing. Noer's basic premise is that employees who are laid off [...]

Corporate Quality Universities by Jeanne C. Meister has two basic objectives: to emphasize the need for organizations to upgrade the skill levels of their workforces and to provide strategies that [...]

The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation, edited by Robert Howard, is a collection of 15 articles that appeared in the Harvard Business Review over three years. Although most [...]

Turning Points is a book on strategic change, but too much of its content is old news. Charles Fombrun's premise that strategic change is a subjective process that requires the [...]

Finally, someone has written a book about power and politics in business that makes sense. Managing with Power, Politics and Influence in Organizations by Jeffrey Pfeffer provides the reader with [...]

Presents the books `Meetings: Do's, Don'ts and Donuts,' by Sharon M. Lippincott, `Creating Workplaces Where People Can Think (Set I: Designing the Work Environment for Optimum Performance),' by Phyl Smith and Lynn Kearny and `How to Survive Your Computer Workstation,' by Julia S. Lacey, Tom Dickson and Howard Levenson.