Growing Your Business: Making Human Resources Work for You (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Robert Baron (author) & Scott Shane (author)

 
9781606490013: Growing Your Business: Making Human Resources Work for You (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 160649001X ISBN 13: 9781606490013
Publisher: Business Expert Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book explains why you should grow your business and describes some of the major challenges of growth. It identifies several strategies that enhance the growth of new firms. It explains how entrepreneurs can select high-performing employees and describes various ways of enhancing employees' motivation and commitment, including the use of pay systems that help to retain high-performing employees. It describes various techniques entrepreneurs can use to increase trust in their new ventures and explains why it is important for entrepreneurs to match their leadership style to the situations they face in their new ventures.

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About the Author

Robert A. Baron - Dean R. Wellington Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Prof. Baron has held faculty appointments at Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, University of Texas, University of South Carolina, University of Washington, and Princeton University. In 1982 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. From 1979 to 1981 he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (Washington, D.C.) In 2001 the French Ministry of Research appointed him as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Shane's work has appeared in Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, among other journals.

From the Back Cover

If you are an entrepreneur starting a new venture, this book provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees. It shows you how to piece individual skills, talents and abilities into a cohesive structure that is prepped for success and follows with advice on how to continue using the same principles beyond the founding team far into the future.

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Publisher
Business Expert Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
160649001X
ISBN 13 
9781606490013
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
59