Harvard Business School Human Resource Management Complete Set (4 Volumes + 1 CD-ROM) (Includes 1 CD-ROM)

Author: Zhang Shisen
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Publish Date: 2006-01-25
Features: On January 7, 1994, the 24th overpass on Santa Monica Highway collapsed during the Los Angeles earthquake, putting Los Angeles' traffic to unprecedented strain. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to take detours twice a day to get to work. The California government initially estimated that the reconstruction of the bridge would take 12-18 months, a conclusion reached after precise calculations by a team of digital experts, theoretically flawless. However, in reality, no additional resources were allocated, yet the project was completed in just 67 days—this is a miracle created by effective human resource management! Understanding this will create countless riches for your business.—Harvard Business School Professor Samuel Augusz)
Current Technical Director at Microsoft, Bill Gates:——If all the intelligent people in the world worked in a bureaucratic, personality-restraining, and rigid company, there would be no achievements at all.
Yahoo CEO Athira Semel:——Everyone wants to achieve something; you must make your employees feel important. There are many subtle factors in a team, and if handled improperly, they could easily trigger employees' anxiety, which is extremely harmful to the company.
CEO of IBM, Pamela Sao:——The key to a company's success lies in whether it has outstanding talent, and the best way to motivate and retain talent is to give them challenging work.
Harvard MBA and CEO of eBay, Shawn Zhao, once said: "Many of China's technologies are now catching up quickly, no less behind the West, and even surpassing in innovation. However, in terms of system building and human management, they are lagging behind, affecting the overall progress."
China is a populous nation. If it could fully and effectively allocate various resources and human efforts in a reasonable manner, enabling the full potential of its 1.3 billion people to be unleashed, who knows how many times the GNP could be multiplied?
Since its founding in 1908, Harvard Business School has established the goal of cultivating leaders, aiming to have students become general managers of large companies and industry leaders after graduation. All generations of leaders at Harvard Business School have understood the importance of "people" to success, hence their emphasis on human resource management courses and their investment of significant human and financial resources.
This book is compiled based on Harvard's specialized course "Human Resource Management," encompassing a century of Harvard's research achievements in human resource management, as well as classic cases used in recent years. The content of this book has had a profound impact on U.S. MBA education and corporate management philosophy.
The courses included in Human Resource Management:
Shifting HR Functions,
Management Process,
Performance Evaluation,
Salary Management,
Interpersonal Theory,
Collaborative System Theory,
Overview of Organizational Management,
Organizational Behavior,
Administrative Organizational Theory,
Contingency Theory,
Communication and Motivation.
This book is for building high-speed, intelligent organizations and creating super-alloy teams.