Organizational Success through Effective Human Resources Management:By Ronald R. Sims

Publisher: Quorum Books
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2002-03-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1567204813
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781567204810
Binding: Hardcover

Not only are performance and human resources management (HRM) bound tightly together, but Sims even goes so far as to say that the way people are managed in coming decades will be the most important determinant of organizational success. He shows how success is determined by a firm's skill in attracting, developing, and retaining its human capital; how a firm's people are what give it a measurable advantage over the competition; and how an organization's commitment to developing its people's abilities and skills is an obligation at all levels. Sims focuses on practical, real-world human resources problems and activities emphasize the need for managers to prove themselves excellent people managers as well, and covers the traditional HRM tasks and responsibilities in ways that will give them new meaning and urgency. By focusing on current challenges, emerging issues, and HRM innovations now on the horizon, Sims' book is essential for managers and executives throughout the organization, and indeed throughout all sectors of the economy. Sims provides a firsthand understanding of the importance of HRM and lays out the tools to help managers do it well. He emphasizes repeatedly how important it is for organizations to understand that their success depends on their ability to attract and keep talented employees. With its persuasive discussion of the trends and emerging issues in the development of proactive human resources policies and practices, the book shows how to anticipate and work towards the development and retention of the right people. It emphasizes the importance of taking a strategic approach to all of the various human resources activities, and proves throughout that for an organization to prosper and earn a profit, goals must be set and initiatives taken in all areas of HRM and by all people, whatever their levels of responsibility may be.

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

by Robert S. Kaplan (Author),
David P. Norton (Author)
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (September 2000)
ISBN-10: 1578512506
PDF 16 Mb 416 pages


In their previous book, Robert Kaplan and David Norton unveiled an innovative "performance management system" that any company could use to focus and align their executive teams, business units, human resources, information technology, and financial resources on a unified overall strategy--much as businesses have traditionally employed financial management systems to track and guide their general fiscal direction. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton explain how companies like Mobil, CIGNA, and Chemical Retail Bank have effectively used this approach for nearly a decade, and in the process present a step-by-step implementation outline that other organizations could use to attain similar results. Their book is divided into five sections that guide readers through development of a completely individualized plan that is created with "strategy maps" (graphical representations designed to clearly communicate desired outcomes and how they are to be achieved), then infused throughout the enterprise and made an integral part of its future. In several chapters devoted to the latter, for example, the authors show how their models have linked long-term strategy with day-to-day operational and budgetary management, and detail the "double loop" process for doing so, monitoring progress, and initiating corrective actions if necessary. --Howard Rothman

Trust, Complexity and Control: Confidence in a Convergent World

By Piotr Cofta
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 310
Publication Date: 2007-11-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470061308
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470061305
Binding: Hardcover


This book offers a consistent explanation of how the phenomenon of confidence or trust can be applied to diverse areas; (automated agents, security, semantic web, AI, e-commerce, e-government, e-society, distributed systems, identity and privacy, social sciences). Starting from the individual perspective concentrated on the decision to proceed, the book presents the model of confidence that combines trust and control together with complexity into a single explanatory framework. From there, the book demonstrates how the model can be applied to different research areas where it can provide valuable contribution, clarifying complex problems and offering solutions to misunderstandings. The book will contain sections on trust in the digital world, the impact of trust on digital communication and networks, trust and commerce, convergence and trust, and trust enhancing technologies.
Provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to trust and control, and its importance in relation to new convergence technologies Offers a unique integrative approach using key terms of trust, confidence, complexity and control to create a common framework model of trust. Considers the conceptual issues and problems to be resolved and their application in the digital and e-commerce worlds Practical cross disciplinary perspective covering trust in relation to security, identity, privacy, e-commerce, e-government, e-society, autonomous agents, distributed systems, ubiquitous networks, psychology and cognitive networks

The Trust Process in Organizations: Empirical Studies of the Determinants and the Process

The Trust Process in Organizations:
Empirical Studies of the Determinants and the Process of Trust Development
by B. Nooteboom (Editor),
Fredrique Six (Editor)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (May 2003)
ISBN-10: 1843760789
PDF 0.7 Mb 256 pages


Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume focuses on the trust processes between people within organizations, with an emphasis on empirical studies.
Rational foundations and psychological motivations for trust are taken into account through conceptual and empirical chapters. The authors begin by summarizing a number of key elements from the literature, including how trust develops in time and how its development is affected by social-psychological phenomena. This includes the notion of framing: the interpretive context in which actions are perceived and evaluated. A conceptual framework is then used to analyze trust and power in the internal relationships of the organization. The contributors take up this issue in an evolutionary analysis of competition between trust and cheating. The conditions for trust in teams, in terms of type of task and team composition are examined, and the effects on trust of different types of leadership are studied. In the concluding chapters, the relation between the control imposed by an expert system and the influence of users is analyzed, and the relational signaling perspective is used for a study of norm violation and sanctioning, which in turn is used to analyze trust and trouble.