We hope you enjoyed reading our blog on “Top HR Management Books You Should Read – Part 1.” We are back with more book recommendations.
Smart Staffing: How to Hire, Reward and Keep Top Employees for Your Growing Company — Wayne Outlaw
We recommend the book for the author’s deep and insightful understanding of effective HR practices and key employee engagement strategies in small businesses and enterepreneurial organisations.
Wayne Outlaw shares practical and streamlined approaches that are crucial to building and growing teams that are spirited, entrepreneurial and forward thinking.
The Empowered Manager – Peter Block
Organisational politics is a reality within all workplaces, and in his book
Peter Block demonstrates how leaders can benefit through positive politics, and drive up both individual as well as team potential and professional development.
Block is an authority on the subject, and urges us to acknowledge the “presence of politics in every environment and organisation” and the ways that we could use it to create workspaces that foster empowement and superior performance.
The Talent Management Handbook: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Selecting, Developing, and Promoting the Best People – Lance A Berger and Dorothy R Berger
The Talent Management Handbook is a comprehensive manual that we highly recommend to all HR leaders, CEOs, and organsiational decision makers who want to gain mature and nuanced approaches to building competent organisations with a talented and high performance workforce. The book presents all the tools you will need to develop an indepth understanding on state-of-the-art HR processes and techniques to discover, develop and coach talent, and nurture future leaders.
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead — Laszlo Bock
In his intriguing book, Bock offers an in-depth view into HR and People Operations within the world’s leading technology organisation. He reveals the mature insight and interpretation that the organisation has achieved through its relentless adoption of logical and data driven approaches in growing and developing talent. A fascinating read indeed!
Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It: The Results Only Revolution — Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson
If you are leading a new age organisation, this is a book that you will absolutely need to read. The authors detail workplace practices and approaches to employee engagement and empowerment, and is replete with tools and ideas that are practical and relevant to today’s work generation.