Human Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Cremin

A Crisis of Consumption Here is a question: Does a crisis of consumption mean there is a crisis of subjectivity? To recall, in the early part of the 1960s, Marcuse ...
( Category: Free Enterprise February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Maister, David H. [Maister, David H.]

WHO SHOULD HANDLE ASSIGNMENTS? In order to understand the problems inherent in the design of scheduling systems, let us imagine that a firm has decided to appoint a scheduling “czar” ...
( Category: Management February 7,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Studs Terkel

“When you make a mistake, you get three chances. Then they take it out of your pay, which is right. You can’t make a ten-dollar mistake every week. It’s fishy. ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Edward de Bono

Practice The classroom is divided up into groups of a suitable size for a brainstorming session. Each group elects its own chairman. If there is any difficulty about this then ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius January 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Fried, Jason; Heinemeier Hansson, David [Fried, Jason; Heinemeier Hansson, David]

Working with clients Before we were a software company, we were a website design consulting company. Companies would hire us to redesign their existing sites, or, occasionally, build them an ...
( Category: Workplace Culture January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Fried, Jason; Heinemeier Hansson, David [Fried, Jason]

Working with clients Before we were a software company, we were a website design consulting company. Companies would hire us to redesign their existing sites, or, occasionally, build them an ...
( Category: Workplace Culture January 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Macy, Beth [Macy, Beth]

By the time Shirley retired, things in the American furniture industry were dire. By 2001, no production incentive could compete with dressers as cheap as the ones from Dalian. The ...
( Category: Business January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Beck, Ulrich

But the downward elevator effect into the world of job insecurity does not affect everyone equally. As in the past, it is true internationally that insecure and temporary forms of ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations January 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Macy, Beth

By the time Shirley retired, things in the American furniture industry were dire. By 2001, no production incentive could compete with dressers as cheap as the ones from Dalian. The ...
( Category: Business December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-12 | Author:Fideler, Elizabeth F. [Fideler, Elizabeth F.]

Septuagenarian Bob Schecter is a part-time, self-employed writer-for-hire whose business is called Bartleby Scriveners. While he enjoys the work and wants the income, he makes sure to leave time for ...
( Category: Men December 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-12 | Author:Fideler, Elizabeth F. [Fideler, Elizabeth F.]

Michael Avsharian, age eighty-two, is a classically trained violinist who prefers teaching young people to performing. He is also part of the three-generation executive team that runs Shar Music Company’s ...
( Category: Men December 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Ron Friedman PhD [Friedman PhD, Ron]

The Lessons of Games Action Items for Managers If working for you is too easy, you’re doing something wrong. While simplifying work and increasing efficiency may make financial sense, any ...
( Category: Occupational & Organizational December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Hess, Edward D. [Hess, Edward D.]

Managers need to “[t]each and reinforce the merits of mistake-based learning”: We must bring mistakes into the open and analyze them objectively, so managers need to foster a culture that ...
( Category: Organizational Learning November 24,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:William Poundstone

[Link to Answer 52] Does the sun always rise in the east? [Link to Answer 53] You’ve got six matchsticks. Arrange them so they form four equilateral triangles. The first ...
( Category: Guides November 19,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Kerry Patterson & Joseph Grenny & Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

Watch for Three “Clever” Stories As we begin to piece together why people are doing what they’re doing (or equally important, why we’re doing what we’re doing), with time and ...
( Category: Communications November 16,2014 )