Research Catalog

Title

The human equation : building profits by putting people first / Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Author

Pfeffer, Jeffrey.

Publication

Boston : Harvard Business School Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xix, 345 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Criticizes many common personnel management practices, and argues that policies such as job security and fair compensation result in greater profits in the long run.

Subject

• Success in business
• Corporate profits
• Personnel management
• Succès dans les affaires
• Entreprises > Profits
• Personnel > Direction
• Gestion du personnel
• Gestion d'entreprises
• Ressources humaines
• Management
• Succes
• Bénéfices de l'entreprise
• Réussite dans les affaires
• Relations industrielles
• Efficacité de l'organisation
• Empresas de negocios
• Administración de personal

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.

Contents

pt. I. People-centered management and organizational success. Looking for success in all the wrong places -- The business case for managing people right -- Seven practices of successful organizations -- Aligning business strategy and management practices -- pt. II. Barriers to implementing performance knowledge: how conventional wisdom is wrong -- Ten reasons why smart organizations sometimes do dumb things -- The "new employment contract" and the virtual work force -- How common approaches to pay cause problems -- Can you manage with unions? -- Market failures and the role of public policy in producing profits through people -- People, profits, and perspective.

ISBN

• 0875848419
• 9780875848419

LCCN

• 97027510
• 9780875848419

OCLC

• ocm37213496
• 37213496
• SCSB-14499785

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries