The human equation : building profits by putting people first / Jeffrey Pfeffer.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Harvard Business School Press, 1998.Description: xix, 345 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0875848419
  • 9780875848419
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF 5386 .P576 1998
Contents:
pt. I. People-centered management and organizational success. Looking for success in all the wrong places -- The business case for managing people right -- Seven practices of successful organizations -- Aligning business strategy and management practices -- pt. II. Barriers to implementing performance knowledge: how conventional wisdom is wrong -- Ten reasons why smart organizations sometimes do dumb things -- The "new employment contract" and the virtual work force -- How common approaches to pay cause problems -- Can you manage with unions? -- Market failures and the role of public policy in producing profits through people -- People, profits, and perspective.
Action note:
  • Self-Renewing 2017
Summary: Criticizes many common personnel management practices, and argues that policies such as job security and fair compensation result in greater profits in the long run.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.

pt. I. People-centered management and organizational success. Looking for success in all the wrong places -- The business case for managing people right -- Seven practices of successful organizations -- Aligning business strategy and management practices -- pt. II. Barriers to implementing performance knowledge: how conventional wisdom is wrong -- Ten reasons why smart organizations sometimes do dumb things -- The "new employment contract" and the virtual work force -- How common approaches to pay cause problems -- Can you manage with unions? -- Market failures and the role of public policy in producing profits through people -- People, profits, and perspective.

Criticizes many common personnel management practices, and argues that policies such as job security and fair compensation result in greater profits in the long run.

Self-Renewing 2017 UoY

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.