Human Resource Management, by Robert L. Mathis; John H. Jackson
Added by: Kaldagan | Karma: 115.48 | Non-Fiction, Other | 13 August 2009
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As human resources have become viewed as more critical to organizational success, many organizations have realized that it is the people in an organization that can provide a competitive advantage. Throughout the book it will be emphasized that the people as human resources contribute to and affect the competitive success of the organization. Human Resource (HR) management deals with the design of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to accomplish organizational goals...
The information contained in this handbook can be used by organizations as well as individuals seeking a higher level of personal or professional success.
Throughout this handbook, we will be following an eight-step "success map" that was developed from research showing that the process of achieving success is remarkably consistent from person to person and organization to organization. These eight steps win provide you with the means for achieving success and securing goals on a day-to-day basis.
This book is for those wanting an intelligent, practical guide to creating a learning organization. It will appeal equally to the professional manager wanting insight and a hands-on tool, as it will to the academic grateful for a no-nonsense summary of the learning organization theory and practice.
Both Professor Höffe and the translator deserve kudos for this work. Most other introductions to Kant that I have seen are either too superficial, or they retain too much of Kant's heavy writing style (which tends to translate poorly into English), in order to be really useful. By contrast, Professor Höffe's work summarizes everything important in Kant's philosophy in a way that is both insightful and easy to read.
The organization of Professor Höffe's book is very helpful to a proper understanding of Kant's philosophy. This book discusses Kant's life work organized according to the three famous questions that Kant posed, i.e., what can I know? what ought I to do? what may I hope?. This organization retains Kant's original didactic purpose, and helps the reader understand how the conclusions of Kant's moral philosophy are directly connected with his critical analysis of reason itself.
Written and compiled by British film critic Ronald Bergan, the DK Eyewitness Companion book is much more cursory, but the organization is also more amenable to the casual browser looking for a few film factoids. That's because the 500-plus-page soft-cover book mimics the same pleasing graphics, easy-to-follow organization, and abbreviated observations of the extensive Eyewitness guidebook line. This one is divided into six discrete sections - The Story of Cinema, How Movies Are Made, Genres, World Cinema, A-Z of Directors, and Top 100 Movies. Each provides interesting tidbits of a thumbnail variety, especially the first chapter which dares to cover the history of movies in such an expeditious fashion. The second section gives a solid look at the entire process of filmmaking from development to release.
