The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions provides hundreds of job descriptions, skills and competencies for HR professionals and managers to use and adapt when recruiting.
The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions offers a unique time-saving approach in the form of a ‘job description builder’ which allows you to select featured job elements and build a complete and well-structured job description. Divided into two parts, the first enables quick and easy assembly and personalization of any job description, across a wide range of sectors such as administration and management, finance and accountancy, and human resources. Part Two allows you to select from hundreds of job elements, such as providing care and guidance, client relations, and project management.
This edition provides online access to each job description so you can personalize them to suit your own circumstances, saving hours of valuable time.
Demonstrating how conflict can work for and against performance, this book will enable you to understand and manage it effectively in your organization. By nurturing the good aspects and suppressing the bad, you will encourage an effective organizational group, which will ultimately lead to a more productive and profitable workforce.
“This thoughtfully constructed book offers some valuable insights – and should prove enlightening reading.” Alun Harvey and Bob Little
An alternative opportunity to buy four of the top titles in this series in one bundle. Use to test and help yourself or use with your employees.
The four titles are:Ultimate InterviewUltimate IQ TestsUltimate Aptitude TestsUltimate Psychometric Tests
Ultimate Interview offers advice on what interviewers are looking for, how to prepare yourself, researching the background to a vacancy and giving the right answers to the hardest questions.
The Ultimate IQ Test Book is the biggest book of IQ practice tests available. Written and compiled by IQ-test experts it contains 1000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to assessing individual performance.
Ultimate Aptitude Tests includes verbal, numerical, perceptual and practical tests as well as those testing specific aptitudes such as memory and dexterity. It also covers personality and motivational tests which assess leadership, management and social awareness aptitudes.
Ultimate Psychometric Tests has over 1000 practice questions on verbal, numerical, non-verbal and diagrammatic reasoning, personality questionnaires, mechanical comprehension and IQ tests.
The chance to buy four of the top titles in this series in one bundle. Use to test and help yourself or use with your employees.
The four titles are:Ultimate Aptitude TestsUltimate CVUltimate Psychometric TestsUltimate Interview
Ultimate CV describes how to create an irresistible CV that will open doors to job interviews and offers of employment. Covering all aspects of this crucial part of the job-hunting process, Martin Yate shows you how to turn plain facts into a powerful sales pitch, creating a CV that will stand out.
Combining two bestselling titles from the world renowned guru of team work, Meredith Belbin, this is an indispensable package for today’s successful manager. There two complimentary titles provide all the information you’ll need to understand how teams work and how to get the best from your team. Belbin is one of the most widely read, imaginative and influential authors in this area, and his work on teams has become part of everyday business language in organizations worldwide.
Team Roles at Work Management Teams, 2nd Edition
A Practical Guide to Assessment Centres and Selection Methods: Measuring Competency for Recruitment and Development is a guide for HR practitioners who need to effectively introduce, design and deliver assessment or development centres.
A ‘how to’ manual, it runs through every aspect of running an assessment centre from pre-briefing an organization, to the actual event, feedback and evaluation. It includes a sample framework specifically designed for use at assessment centres and tips for sourcing and developing individual frameworks. It also examines the key criteria used to guide the choice of selection tools in organizations and compares assessment centres with other commonly used methods. Online resources include exercises such as role play, in-tray prioritizing, analytical report writing and group problem solving, with advice on which exercises to use to assess each competence.
For the first time, these two titles are available as a bundle. Comprising
Human Resources Kit for Dummies, Second Edition, is your one-stop resource for learning the nuts and bolts of HR. It gives you the actual tools—forms, templates, and so on—that you can put to immediate and productive use. Inside, you’ll easily discover how to:
Training For Dummies offers all the nuts and bolts of training for anyone who has to educate others on any subject and in any field. It covers all the modern, interactive instructional methods and dynamic training approaches available and helps you get trainees inspired, involved, and enthused. Training For Dummies will help you:
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"A comprehensive set of chapters that provides a good balance between areas of academic interest and organizational practice" Professor of International HRM.
This book is about making a difference through workplace learning and development. It offers advice and demonstrates the positive impact it can have on an organization.
Learning and development is essential to organizational success. Training courses were traditionally used as the key method of teaching, but increasingly the focus is shifting to individuals and managers adopting a more flexible approach to learning. Organizations are being held responsible for maximizing the skills, knowledge and behaviours available to them, ensuring that employees are not solely learning new skills, but are using their existing skills to maximum effect.
