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# 7
Interesting reads for HR professionals and Management
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We have compiled a list of fourteen leading business books which are a great source of knowledge for all managers. The books highlighted are commonly used in Post Graduate courses in leading University institutions around the world.
With the majority focusing on intellectual capital (people) and knowledge economies, they share great insights into managing and retaining top talent, managing intangibles and how to effectively reshape the changing landscape of HR.
They are a great source of rich content with practical guidelines in assisting HR professionals in aligning their people and business strategies by reviewing and analysing the external environments in which corporations operate, both here in Australia and around the world.
These books are truly transformational and take
HR into the Boardroom.
The list is presented in alphabetical order
COMPLEX RESPONSIVE PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS -
Learning and Knowledge Creation
Author: Ralph D. Stacey
"Over the past decade, practicing managers and organizational theorists have been drawing attention to the centrality of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called "knowledge economy." This is reflected in the popularity of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations.Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations argues that most of the literature on these matters, and the ways in which most practitioners now talk about them, reflect systems thinking and that its information processing view of knowledge creation is no longer tenable. The purpose of this book is to develop a different perspective."
CORPORATE LONGITUDE -
What you need to know to navigate the knowledge economy
Author: Leif Edvinsson
"In business, we too often know all about our latest financial position without having any idea of our real or potential position.
Where do we register the resignation of a key person? How do we measure the loss of a key customer? Or the failure of a key project? The measures by which we often manage only give us half an understanding of where we are or where we're going.
Modern corporations habitually navigate by a singe measure: a financial one. This is 'corporate latitude'. The trouble is that it gives only one part of the picture. The other key co-ordinate is missing. Leif Edvinsson will help you discover a practical method for measuring and managing your Intellectual Capital -'corporate longitude'. It is the only meaningful way to gauge the potential energy of a company.
MANAGING FOR KNOWLEDGE -
HR's strategic role
Author: Christina Evans
"A refreshing 'plain English' guide as to how HR can make real strategic and operational business impact way beyond the tradition scope the 'Personnel Department.' " Robert Ingram, Vice President, Human Resources, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
MANAGING IN THE NEXT SOCIETY
Author: Peter F. Drucker
"Managing in the Next Society is a collection of Peter Drucker's most strikingly prescient articles from the past five years. Salient and incisive as ever, Ducker ranges widely over the most critical issues facing business and society today to offer advice, admonition and instruction for proactive executives."
REFRAMING BUSINESS -
When the Map Changes the Landscape
Author: Richard Normann
"If you are looking for a quick-fix solution, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a light read, to rest your mind for a while, this is not the book for you. But if you are willing to think rigorously and seriously about how to help your organisation imagine and realize its future, and if you are willing to be challenged so as to broaden your personal perspective and intellectual bandwidth then this is a book you cannot miss." Sumantra Ghoshal, Professor of Strategic and International Management, LBS
RETHINKING THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE -
Learning within the unknowable
Author: Robert Louis Flood
"Rethinking The Fifty Discipline makes significant and fundamental improvements to the core discipline of systemic thinking. It establishes crucial developments in this area in the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational transformation. It is therefore a very important text for strategic planners, organisational change agents and consultants as well as students studying and researching management, business and administration."
SCENARIO PLANNING -
The link between future and strategy
Author: Mats Lindgren, Hans Bandhold
"The first years of the new millennium have clearly pointed to the need to prepare for the non-preparable. The dangers of failing to do this were shown in the aftermath of an insane race on the world's stock markets. ICT and telecom shares hit new heights every week, but a year later they hit historical lows. Could the downturn have been foreseen and prepared for, and thus even capitalized on? We believe so. Much of what happened was not unthinkable: it could have even imaged with the use of scenario planning.
This book, we introduce the thinking behind scenario planning and provide our readers with some concepts, models and tools to take back to their own companies. It is based on almost two decades of experience ."
THE CORROSION OF CHARACTER -
The Personal Consequences of Work In The New Capitalism
Author: Richard Sennett
"Today the phrase "flexible capitalism" describes a system which is more than a permutation on an old theme. The emphasis is on flexibility. Rigid forms of bureaucracy are under attack, as are the evils of blind routine. Workers are asked to behave nimbly, to be open to change on short notice, to take risks continually, to become ever less dependent on regulations and formal procedures." P9.
THE FIRST XI-
Winning Organisations in Australia
Authors: Graham Hubbard, Delyth Samuel, Simon Heap and Graeme Cocks
"The First XI identifies eleven of Australia's long-term top-performing organisations and provides a comprehensive analysis of their winning frame-work. Taking the lead from the US bestseller Built to Last, The First XI seeks to answer a few burning questions left in the mind of Australian readers:
- Which are Australia's high-performing, or winning, organisations?
- What are the common elements that set Australian winning organisations apart?
- How is the Australian environment different and how does that impact what it takes top be a winning organisation?
- What can I do to make my organisation a winner in Australia?
THE HR VALUE PROPOSITION
Author: Dave Ulric, Wayne Brockbank
"The HR Value Proposition offers an actionable blueprint for how HR can make this transformation (focus less on what they do and more on what they delivery). Drawing on an eighteen-year global study of more than tewenty-nine thousand HR professionals and line managersidentify fourteen HR criteria that have the greatest impact on value creations and outline what HR must do to build them:
- Monitor external business realities and adapt HR practices as needed
- Create a clear line of sight from HR actions to the value they create for stakeholders
- Prioritise HR practices according to those that yield the most value
- Ensure that the HR department be governed well through its strategy and organisation
- Upgrade the skills and competencies of every HR professional
THE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL WEALTH -
Managing & Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets
Author: Karl Erik Sveiby
More and more companies are deriving value from their intangible assets, such as their employee's create ideas, their customers' loyalty, their ability to attract and keep prestigious accounts, their innovative products and services, their popular brand names, and their reputation. Foremost among them are the "Knowledge Organisations" - companies that employ highly skilled, highly educated people who sell their knowledge and talent rather than (or as well as) products - which make up the fastest growing business sector today.
The New Organizational Wealth shows how some of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies are discovering that potentially limitless revenues can flow from their firm's intangible assets - the ability of employees, customers and even suppliers to create new concepts, models, products and services."
THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
Author: David A. Klein
"A growing number of organisations are pursuing a strategic approach to managing their intellectual capital and harnessing and leveraging their knowledge, experience and expertise more systematically to attain a competitive advantage.
The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital is a compilation of articles pertinent to central themes in this emerging enterprise, such as:
- Understanding strategic and operational roles and intellectual capital in the organisation, and the links between them
- Creating a management and technology infrastructure for cultivating and sharing intellectual capital
- Creating a culture that encourages intellectual capital formation and investment
- Monitoring, valuing and reporting intellectual capital."
THE WORKFORCE SCORECARD-
Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy
Author: Mark A. Huselid, Brian E.Becker
CoAuthors of The HR Scorecard; Richard W.Beatty
"What is measured gets done. Firm success depends entirely on the contribution of the workforce. This book breaks new ground with the concepts and tools for measuring workforce contributions." Ram Charan, coauthrer (with Bossidy and Charles Burck) of the bestselling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done.
"By shifting our perspective of the workforce from a traditional 'cost to be reduced' to a strategic asset, the Authors offer a competing methodology for improving the execution of complex strategies through effective workforce management. This represents a major contribution to improving the performance of line executives." C.K.Prahalad, professor, University of Michigan and Author of The Future of Competition.
VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS AND BEYOND
Author: Bo Hedberg; Goran Dahlgren; Jorgen Hansson; Nils-Goran Olve
"The virtual organisation is a form where only what is used has to be paid form. It has the capability of real organisation, but does not itself have the tangible facilities and permanent employees that is the traditional way of meeting the requirements of customers. It is a concept which gives flexibility, lower overall costs and reduces the capital needs of a business. It is equally applicable to new and established businesses, and can provide both with a means of achieving success in business development and renewal."
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