TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pfeffer,Jeffrey
TI  - The human equation: building profits by putting people first 
SN  - 0875848419
AV  - HF 5386 .P576 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Harvard Business School Press
KW  - Success in business
KW  - Corporate profits
KW  - Personnel management
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -