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Forthcoming Human Resource Development Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Coaching as a Leadership Style

    The Art and Science of Coaching Conversations for Healthcare Professionals

    By Robert F. Hicks

    The healthcare environment is in flux. On the one hand, doctors are being driven into ever larger group practices by increasing regulatory and administrative burdens and the need for greater negotiating power. At the same time, growing infrastructure costs and the threat of payment reform is...

    To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle

    Edited by Edward Nell

    This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth sees the economy as an evolving system in which the market selects and finances innovations, changing the character of costs and affecting the...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  3. HRD in a Complex World

    Edited by Monica Lee

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    Human Resource Development in a Complex World presents a strong challenge to traditional Human Resource Development. Internationally renowned authors address HRD from within the notions and language of complexity, presenting multifaceted alternative perspectives to the current practice and theory...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management

    Edited by Allan Bird

    The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management is the definitive reference source for the exploration of Japanese business and management. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this field, the Encyclopedia consolidates and contextualises the leading research and knowledge about the...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations

    Edited by Franz-Jurgen Richter

    Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business

    This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Evaluating Human Capital Projects

    Improve, Prove, Predict

    By Jane Massy, Jeremy Harrison

    This book describes the best of practices that can be applied to human capital projects to ensure they deliver planned measureable results at the best value for money. This book will help readers ensure that investments, intended to deliver results, actually achieve those results. In the private...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Bridge Employment

    A Research Handbook

    Edited by Carlos-María Alcover, Gabriela Topa, Marco Depolo, Franco Fraccaroli, Emma Parry

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    Bridge Employment refers to the diverse forms of older workers' participation in the labour market that occurs between their retirement and their complete workforce withdrawal. Research over the last decade reveals that the long-term trend toward earlier retirement has slowed or reversed and the...

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge

  8. Diversity in the Workforce

    Current issues and emerging trends

    Edited by Marilyn Y. Byrd, Chaunda L. Scott

    Diversity in the Workforce is a comprehensive, integrated teaching resource providing students with the tools and methodologies they need to negotiate effectively the multicultural workplace, and to counter issues of discrimination and privilege. Written from an American perspective, the book not...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

  9. Voice and Involvement at Work

    Experience with Non-Union Representation

    Edited by Paul Gollan, Bruce Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the last decade in the fields of human resource management, employment relations, and employment/labor law. Two reasons account for this. The first is the long-term and cumulatively substantial decline in trade union...

    To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge

  10. Global Explorers

    Developing International Leadership

    By J. Stewart Black, Allen Morrison

    The economy is global, businesses are increasingly global, management has gone global and there is an increasing demand (and reward) for truly skilled global leaders. Written by authoritative experts, Global Explorers provides specific, research based and practical tools to develop global leaders....

    To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge