Recommended Books on Human Resource Managment

Outsourcing Human Resources Functions
This book offers a complete discussion of outsourcing, and it explains all of the basics. It also gives HR professionals and corporate executives practical tools with which to make an outsourcing decision, identify functional candidates for outsourcing, learn how to define requirements, draw up a request for proposal (RFP) and a request for information (RFI), assess the proposals and bidders, contract for services, expand vendor management expertise and manage outsourced functions successfully. The book covers offshoring as well as outsourcing. The sample contracts are available on CD-ROM.
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Primal Leadership
Drawing from decades of analysis within world-class organizations, the authors show that resonant leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness.
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Freakonomics, Revised Edition
Hot off the presses, just in time for the Strategic HR Conference, came the new, revised edition of Freakonomics, a book that shows that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
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