Be Your Own Mentor (Briefcase Books) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)I was very excited when I found out about this book I couldn't wait to get my hands on it! Be Your Own Mentor came out at a time when I really needed it. This book is easy to understand and as in all of her books Anne Bruce provides real scenarios, tips and hints and worksheets that allow you to start applying all you've learned as soon as you've closed the book. If you want to spoil yourself a little in 2008 get this book and get motivated to be your own mentor!

Click Here to see more reviews about: Be Your Own Mentor (Briefcase Books)


A proven, do-it-yourself formula for greater professional and personal success

Successful career and life coach Anne Bruce knows how you can find happiness, fulfillment, and success at work and in life-and it's not by hiring a coach! Be Your Own Mentor delivers a unique, do-it-yourself process for identifying your hidden talents, abilities, and passions and developing them on your own.

Bruce's four-part approach empowers you to get where you want in life by adopting a free-agent mindset, taking intelligent risks and building self-esteem, setting a course for balance in work and life, and discovering and developing your personal strengths.

Get 25% OFF

Click here for more information about Be Your Own Mentor (Briefcase Books)

Read More...

Employee Training & Development Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)I felt the textbook was very helpful throughout my course of study and I will be able to apply some of the concepts when developing a needs assessment of a training program. Employee Training & Development

Click Here to see more reviews about: Employee Training & Development

Raymond Noe's Employee Training and Development sets the standard in this course area. First introduced in 1998, ETD became the market-defining text within 6 months of publication. Its popularity is due to its lively writing style and relevant examples of the most up-to-date developments in training, research and practice, including the strategic role of training and the use of new technologies in training. Employee Training and Development strikes a balance between research and real company practices. It provides students with a solid background in the fundamentals of training and development such as needs assessment, transfer of training, learning environment design, methods, and evaluation. To help students better understand the relationship between the main elements of the book, the book is now organized into five different parts.Part I focuses on the context for training and development and includes a chapter devoted to strategic training.Part II includes coverage related to the fundamentals of designing training programs.Chapters in Part II focus on needs assessment, learning theories and program design, transfer of training, and training evaluation.Part III focuses on training and development methods and includes chapters devoted to traditional training methods, e-learning and the use of technology in training, employee development, and special issues in employee development, such as managing diversity, succession planning, and cross-cultural preparation.Chapters in Part IV cover career issues and how companies manage careers, as well as challenges in career management, such as dealing with work-life conflict, retirement, and socialization.Finally, Part V provides a look at the future of training and development.

Click here for more information about Employee Training & Development

Read More...

Managing Teams Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)This is the first book on work team or any kind of teams that acknowledges how difficult and trying team work and team management can be. It's full of useful suggestions and insightful thinking. It's well written and not a checklist type of book but one which really explores things like conflict and the key kinds of things teams come up against. As a manager who workes with teams all the time, I highly recommend it. I am buying one for all my supervisors and all my teams.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Managing Teams

In industry after industry, workplace teams have proven their value in achieving both quality and productivity goals. But for teams to succeed, management must lay the groundwork. Managing Teams provides methods and checklists to determine if teams are right for your business; improvements you should expect--and not expect--from teams; and more. Interviews with HR professionals who have successfully instituted teams give you real stories from the front lines. Managing Teams will provide the support and confidence you need to initiate and manage workplace teams, evaluate the success of those teams, and get your employees working in a coordinated, disciplined manner.

Get 35% OFF

Click here for more information about Managing Teams

Read More...

Organizational Behavior and Management (Organizational Behaviour and Management) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)The book, Organizational Behavior and Management, is an excellent rescource for anyone wishing to improve their management skills. This resource gives insight to better understand and improve management skills for the purpose of benefiting a company and most importantly, those being supervised. I highly recommend this book to anyone who manages a group of people, whether a proffessional manager, school teacher,non profit leadership etc.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Organizational Behavior and Management (Organizational Behaviour and Management)

The author team (Ivancevich/Konopaske/Matteson) has examined, listened, and responded to reviewers', instructors', and students' suggestions on how to continue to make Organizational Behavior and Management, 8e a more user-friendly and application rich introductory OB textbook.
To accomplish this, OBM 8e achieves the difficult goal of preserving its key strengths (i.e., thorough, current, good balance of research and practice) while streamlining its content by removing over 100 pages of readings that are now available on the Web.This reduction in page length makes the book more affordable, teachable, and efficient for students.
"Preserving scholarship while streamlining" captures the spirit of what I/K/M used as the guiding principle while writing OBM 8e.

Click here for more information about Organizational Behavior and Management (Organizational Behaviour and Management)

Read More...

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management with Online Learning Center Code Card Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)Super fast shipping and easy to communicate with I would imagine if I had any problems but did not, would buy from again!

Click Here to see more reviews about: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management with Online Learning Center Code Card

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart and Wright is specifically written to provide a complete introduction to human resource management. While it doesn�t cover the depths of human resource management theory, the book is rich with examples and engages students through application.
. .Fundamentals differs from the hardback textbook by the same author team. Instead of a higher level of theory that�s geared towards the HRM majors, this book focuses on the uses of human resources for the general business manager.Issues such as strategy are reduced to give a greater focus on how human resources management is used in the everyday work environment.It provides students with the background necessary to manage human resources effectively and to be able to distinguish good from poor human resource management practices and how they impact business.
..Instructors are provided with a robust ancillary package that includes a comprehensive instructor�s manual, test bank, PowerPoint presentation and a complete Online Learning Center to make course preparation easy..

Click here for more information about Fundamentals of Human Resource Management with Online Learning Center Code Card

Read More...

Interviewing Techniques for Managers (Briefcase Books) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)The author focuses on behavioral interviewing techniques that are suitable for a variety of circumstances including job interviews and performance appraisal interviews but also touches on customer interviews and problem-solving sessions with peers. Behavioral interviewing is a technique that stresses questions about past or present behaviors rather than hypothetical or general questions. A behavioral question, for example, would be "give me an example of a time when you..." as opposed to "what would you do if...".
I found the organization and advice very useful especially the STAR behavioral questions techniques and the chapter on recognizing the difference between what the person SAYS and what (s)he MEANS. In fact, I use STAR (Situations, Tasks, Actions & Results) questions in almost all job interviews since reading the book and the difference in terms of the quality of the answers and information I got is very palpable.
The book makes for a friendly and an easy read that provides plenty of practical and useful advice. However, I found that it was a little too focused on the technicality of the interview process. For advice on how to recognize the top performers in job interviews or for specific recruitment advice, I found "Hiring the Best" by Martin Yate extremely useful.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Interviewing Techniques for Managers (Briefcase Books)


Interview Strategies for Always Getting the Information You Need

For managers, interviewing is about gathering useful information in every face-to-face encounter, from project planning meetings to client discussions to speaking with prospective employees. Interviewing Techniques for Managers shows you how to master every aspect of the interview process to ensure that you always get honest, helpful, and results-oriented answers. Look to this important addition to McGraw-Hill's Briefcase Books series for workplace-tested interviewing methods including:

When and how to ask the key questions
Tips for getting a difficult interview back on track
Techniques for telephone, e-mail, and other arms-length interviews

Separating fact from fiction when interviewing potential employees ... Solving workplace problems ... Uncovering how best to meet customer needs ... The ability to interview others is among the most valuable skills a manager can have. Interviewing Techniques for Managers will help you end each interview with the information you need, by beginning each interview with a solid, results-oriented plan--and the know-how to execute that plan.

Click here for more information about Interviewing Techniques for Managers (Briefcase Books)

Read More...