Bøker av Ronald R. Sims

A pioneering contribution to the professional training literature, this book is designed to help trainers and human resource managers to more effectively manage training programs.

Here is an in-depth discussion of current and future challenges and issues for HRM professionals and scholars of human resource managers. The authors present these challenges, with specific examples of individual HRM managers and their department's responses to these problems.

Veres, Sims and their contributors focus on the nuts-and-bolts issues in human resource management (HRM) created by passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), then identify future issues and their projected impact.

An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.

Rising costs, shrinking enrollments, more diverse student populations, the need for adaptive management, the trend toward evaluation and assessment of programs and students will require proactive responses by college and university administrators in the 1990s and beyond.

Training in government is not a primary mission for a variety of reasons, and this book attempts to increase the importance of training in government organizations by showing how training can increase individual performance and overall productivity.

Written with the belief that HRD professionals will continue to learn, change and find ways to reinvent themselves and the profession individually and collectively as we move further into the 21st century. This book provides tested and proven ideas important to demonstrating the value of HRD.

Examining training and development, this text argues that training professionals and their training functions must take a strategic, customer, performance improvement and accountability orientation to add more value to their organizations.

Examining public organizations at local, county, state, federal and international levels, this text analyzes how public agencies and organizations are failing to provide cost-effective services to their constituents, and describes how they can improve their performance by restructuring themselves.

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders.

Not only are performance and human resources management (HRM) bound tightly together, but Sims even goes so far as to say that the way people are managed in coming decades will be the most important determinant of organizational success. He shows how success is determined by a firm's skill in attracting, developing, and retaining its human capital; how a firm's people are what give it a measurable advantage over the competition; and how an organization's commitment to developing its people's abilities and skills is an obligation at all levels. Sims focuses on practical, real-world human resources problems and activities emphasize the need for managers to prove themselves excellent people managers as well, and covers the traditional HRM tasks and responsibilities in ways that will give them new meaning and urgency. By focusing on current challenges, emerging issues, and HRM innovations now on the horizon, Sims' book is essential for managers and executives throughout the organization, and indeed throughout all sectors of the economy.Sims provides a firsthand understanding of the importance of HRM and lays out the tools to help managers do it well. He emphasizes repeatedly how important it is for organizations to understand that their success depends on their ability to attract and keep talented employees. With its persuasive discussion of the trends and emerging issues in the development of proactive human resources policies and practices, the book shows how to anticipate and work towards the development and retention of the right people. It emphasizes the importance of taking a strategic approach to all of the various human resources activities, and proves throughout that for an organization to prosper and earn a profit, goals must be set and initiatives taken in all areas of HRM and by all people, whatever their levels of responsibility may be.

To cope with the chaotic new business environment, organizations must find ways to manage the problems of change-but also the process of change itself. This guide to the new business environment explains how organizations can manage the problems and processes of change.

This volume provides a sensible, workable approach to the teaching of business ethics, based on an understanding of how people actually learn and on the need to start with a clear idea of what the teacher hopes to accomplish.

A new set of major changes is reshaping the economy and creating challenges that are testing the mettle and talents of organizations and their employees. The requirements for new employees or the redesigned employees is quickly changing.

Whether in the for-profit, not-for-profit, or government sector, organizations today face tough new challenges posed by changing global and domestic environments using diverse workforces. Leaders have to practice different styles appropriate to more complex and dynamic situations than ever before.

It is the contention of this book that we must increase our understanding of organizational decision making in general and ethical decision making in particular.

Offering a new way to look at work, at organizations, and at oneself, Sims provides not only the reasons why the new organization is what it is, but how to cope with it and to succeed in it.