Human Resource Management

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Competitive Advantage

Competitive advantage is a concept popularized by Michael Porter. Condition which enables an organization to operate in a more efficient or otherwise higher-quality manner than the organizations it competes with.

See also:

Assessment Centres
Balanced Scorecard
Behavioural Compliance
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Behavioural Consistency
Business Process Reengineering
Business Environment
Change
Change Strategy
Communication
Comprehensiveness
Conformity
Confucian Dynamism
De-layering
Division of Labour
Divisional Structure
Downsizing
Organizational design
Organizational development (OD)
Organizational goals
Organizations
Soft HRM
Stakeholders
Strategic HRM
Strategy

Based on the glossary section of Human Resource Management, 4th edition.

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Human Resource Management, 4th edition
by Alan Price
Covers all the key aspects of HRM. Available from:
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
Shortened version of Human Resource Management - concise analysis for non-specialists and one-semester courses.
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The Action Learner's Toolkit

by John Edmonstone
A practical guide for those using (or planning to use) "action learning", covering the underlying principles behind the approach and providing a series of tools which can aid the organization to successfully adopt it. It includes a comparison of action learning and traditional learning along with tools and techniques for the following parts of the process, including: the client/sponsor role; programme preparation; programme start-up; ground rules; how to select appropriate problems and projects; the composition/meetings/process of action learning sets; the role of the set advisor; and methods of supporting and evaluating the process.
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Action Learning in Action: Transforming Problems and People for World-Class Organizational Learning

by Michael J. Marquardt, Reginald Revans
"For many organizations around the world, action learning has quietly become one of the most powerful action-oriented, problem-solving tools, as well as their key approach to individual, team, and organization development."
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