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Book

The human equation : building profits by putting people first

Call Number

  • 658.314 P524.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c1998.

Physical Description

xix, 345 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

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