Provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. This book covers various aspects that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, interviewing, and handling people problems.

Covers 50 key topics, organized into the three key areas: managing people; managing activities and processes; and, managing and developing yourself. This work provides guidelines aimed to help you to develop a broad base of managerial skills and knowledge and build on existing skills.

Suitable for students and practitioners of Human Resource Management (HRM), this book helps understand and implement HR in relation to the needs of the business as a whole. It covers the key areas useful for the HR function.

Offers guidance on putting complex HR strategies into practice. Presenting HRM strategies that have been formulated and developed by practitioners, academics and consultants, this book demonstrates how these can be implemented in a real-world context and in-line with business objectives, in order to effect positive and productive change.

Strategic reward is the process of deciding what route to take in developing appropriate reward arrangements and dealing with the issues which arise in making that journey. This book examines the essence and context of strategic reward and the processes involved in developing and implementing strategies.

Describes how Human Capital Management provides a bridge between human resource management and business strategy. This book also demonstrates how organizations can use the concepts of human resource management and the processes involved to enhance the value they obtain from people while continuing to meet their aspirations and needs.

Incorporates the findings of two major research projects on performance management (CIPD and e-reward) and illustrates the results with a number of pertinent case studies, providing advice from experienced practitioners. This book provides an action plan for managers wanting to get the best from their employees.

Managing performance is a critical focus of HR activity. This title reveals what leading organisations are doing to manage their employees' performance and how they are delivering results. It shows you how to improve the management of your employees' performance.

Reveals the creative force of children's narrative imagination and shows how this develops through childhood. This book offers a way of understanding of the significance of narrative for children's intellectual growth and for learning and teaching. It also explores a series of real stories written by children between the ages of five and fifteen.

Explains that reward management is about performance of individuals, teams and the whole organization. This book examines the processes and various approaches that can be adopted to achieve and reward outstanding skill and competence levels in the workplace. It addresses the gap that exists between theory and practice.

Organizations are recognizing the need to adopt a logical, systematic, defensible approach to creating equitable pay structures and dealing with equal pay issues. This is a practical guide to designing, introducing and managing job evaluation processes and the pay structures associated with them.

Concentrates on offering a strategic approach to management with critical perspectives on the subject area. This text also includes a range of features to support student learning including a range of case studies and examples, learning objectives, discussion questions, exercises and chapter summaries.

Contains a programme of tried and tested techniques for running efficient and motivational reward programmes. This book covers such techniques as: establishing job values and relativities; developing grade and pay structures; reviewing contribution and performance; rewarding special groups; running employee benefit and pension schemes; and more.

Team work has unique challenges and pressures which a system of team reward can successfully address if correctly implemented. This work brings you the thinking on the issues and addresses questions such as: Should team pay complement or replace individual pay? And, how do you deal with different roles within your team, such as team leaders?