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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- No Best Way: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Resource Manage
- Publication Date
- 2003-04-30
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN
- 9780275957391
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
027595739X
ISBN-13
9780275957391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309759350
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Publication Name
No Best Way : an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Resource Management
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Human Resources & Personnel Management, General, Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2002-033383
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
658.3
Table Of Content
Introduction Clocks, Caves, and Utopias Storms, Pilots, and Byzantium Splinters in the Mind: Methods of Hiring People Alternatives to Jigsaw Puzzle and Spray Paint Utopias: Evolutionary Approaches to Hiring People Look! We're Modern: Training People Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author Index
Synopsis
In this provocative volume, a pioneering organizational psychologist explains that the failure of many human resource programs in business, education, and government is largely due to their mechanistic assumptions. By contrasting the classical human resource paradigm--and its emphasis on consistency and a clock-like structure to organizations-- with the evolutionary paradigm and its focus on variation, conflicting interests and complexity, the author shows how shifting to an evolutionary perspective can make organizations more adaptive, hence human resource programs more attuned to human nature and to organizational realities. Colarelli gives a lively intellectual history of classical human resource management thinking, from Plato through the Renaissance to Marx and Taylor to the present, and shows that much of it is imbued with utopian ethos. This volume explodes the myths that there is one best way to organize, that organizations have goals and that human resource programs operate to further organizational goals or the good of the organization. The author explains the evolutionary logic that views organizations as collections of individuals pursuing their own interests and that human resource activities are inevitably enmeshed in personal and conflicting interests. Evolutionary-based interventions that are workable, innovative, and compassionate are presented for use in hiring and training. Colarelli also offers a novel approach to affirmative action to deal with the problems of fairness and performance.
LC Classification Number
HF5549
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