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  Human Resource Management: A Very Short Introduction (eBook, ePUB)

  The way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s. Earlier campaigns for worker welfare in the 18th and 19th century were driven by a mix of humanitarian, religious, philanthropic, and business motives, and sought workplace amenities such as medical care, housing, and libraries. At the same time functionaries and departments specialising in HR processes such as hiring, payroll, and record keeping emerged. This Very Short Introduction describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history shaped the state of human resource management today. In our era of globalization human resource management has to contend with a number of new and increasingly complex factors, such as global sourcing, regional trade agreements and labour standards, remote working, strategic alliances, and innovation driven by competition. As traditional sources of competitive advantage such as access to capital, protected markets, or proprietary technologies evaporate, firms increasingly look to human resource management to offer a competitive edge. In the 'laboratory' of university departments or in the gritty and sweaty reality of the shop floor, there is no single model of human resource management. Instead human resource management today is as able to impact everything from small owner-managed shops in Brick Lane to the high tech behemoths of Silicon Valley. Adrian Wilkinson shows how human resource management covers the relations between employees and their employers, and explores the range of HR practices, processes, and line management activities. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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  Personality Isn't Permanent

  Psychologist and bestselling author Benjamin Hardy, PhD, debunks the pervasive myths about personality that prevent us from learning and provides bold strategies for personal transformationIn Personality Isn t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality a person s consistent attitudes and behaviors is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our true selves are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical, science-based advice to for personal-reinvention, including:Why personality tests such as Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are not only psychologically destructive but are no more scientific than horoscopes Why you should never be the former anything--because defining yourself by your past successes is just as damaging to growth as being haunted by past failures How to design your current identity based on your desired future self and make decisions here-and-now through your new identity How to reframe traumatic and painful experiences into a fresh narrative supporting your future success How to become confident enough to define your own life s purpose How to create a network of empathetic witnesses who actively encourage you through the highs and lows of extreme growth How to enhance your subconscious to overcome addictions and limiting patterns How redesign your environment to pull you toward your future, rather than keep you stuck in the past How to tap into what psychologists call pull motivation by narrowing your focus on a single, definable, and compelling outcome The book includes true stories of intentional self-transformation such as Vanessa O Brien, who quit her corporate job and set the Guinness World Record for a woman climbing the highest peak on every continent in the fastest time; Andre Norman, who became a Harvard fellow after serving a fourteen-year prison sentence; Ken Arlen, who instantly quit smoking by changing his identity narrative; and Hardy himself, who transcended his childhood in a broken home, surrounded by issues of addiction and mental illness, to earn his PhD and build a happy family.Filled with strategies for reframing your past and designing your future, Personality Isn t Permanent is a guide to breaking free from the past and becoming the person you want to be.

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  Descriptive Complexity Canonisation and Definable Graph Structure Theory

  Descriptive Complexity Canonisation and Definable Graph Structure Theory: ab 126.99 €

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  Doomsday Kid. Diaries

  ABOUT THE ALBUM ' Doomsday Kid. Diaries ' is a debut album by the band P.I.Light. It consists of 11 songs with electronica intro and outro (noise sounds made by The Forest). The album is very eclectic: alternative, metal, experimental, electronic. Heavy sound. Apocalyptic fiction and outer space music. Tale of an alien kid from dying planet. All vocals performed by the female singer. MUSIC QUOTES If 'Doomsday Kid. Diaries' could be described in a single word, that word would be 'claustrophobic'. From the very beginning to it's amazing conclusion, 'Doomsday Kid. Diaries" is an album that exudes hopelessness and despair. It takes several listens for it to sink in, but once it does you realize it is the same creatively throbbing pulsing rhythms and haunting vocals that you would expect from bands like Portishead and Korn. Behind this marvelous production stands our new discovery from Georgia - the band P.I.Light. Their music is just simply expansive and progressive. The overall sound is a sort of a downbeat industrial/electronic thing with a healthy mix of heavy guitars and blasting vocals. The songs flow perfectly, with the instrumentation sparse when it needs to be and booming where required. It's another record that nails the balance of a cohesive tone while varying the sound enough to keep the songs unique and interesting. The overall vibe can be described, as follows - simply close your eyes and picture the band playing inside of a tiny cell, desperately longing to be free. There are glimpses of hope - beams of light shining through a tiny cell window - but the overall mood that is conveyed with 'Doomsday Kid. Diaries' is incredibly bleak. Whether this album is even definable as rock, metal or alternative is debatable. As it stands though, 'Doomsday Kid. Diaries' is a difficult album to define, and P.I.Light should be credited with that. It is an album whose technical merits are outdone only by the emotional shadow that it casts on it's listener. It is unlike anything we've ever had the pleasure of hearing, and it is a journey that absolutely needs to be experienced! - AMAdea Records, BULGARIA.

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