I’ve worked with business leaders on pay projects all over the world, at companies like Nike and Starbucks, in places like Brazil, Mexico, Vietnam, Singapore, the UAE, and all over Europe. While many business books are written from a theoretical or academic perspective, I bring an operator’s perspective. I get to work out the ideas in my book, Fair Pay, on a daily basis, and so I wrote the book to be a realistic and practical guide for understanding the perspectives of business leaders, human resources, and the typical employee.
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Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current corporate compensation models, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap. Fair Pay opens the corporate black box of pay decisions to show why businesses pay what they pay and how to make them pay more.
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Stewart reflects on the hollowness of management consulting dogma in a way that can only be appreciated by a former management consultant. He compares his past field to the Ottoman empire, who he says used to isolate the young from the rest of the society and grant them extraordinary compensation in exchange for absolute loyalty to the throne. Stewart’s writing on this mercenary mentality of work is widely researched and often funny; this is one of my most highlighted books. Stewart’s conclusion is simple and true: a good manager is “nothing more or less than a good and well-educated person.”
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This manual addresses the need to ensure that people are at the centre of the organisation. There has never been a timelier reminder of the need to ensure that leading, supporting and developing staff are critical aspects of creating the right organisational culture to grow and develop. Written with sensitivity, it brings together essential learning and underpinning theoretical knowledge and frameworks to promote effective practice.
This is an essential handbook for managers and leaders who want to develop the full potential of their people. It not only covers the fundamental issues of human resource management, but also highlights important topics that organisations find difficult to address, such as empowerment, stress management, mental health, equality, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of well-being at work.
It is refreshing to come across an HR book that bridges the gap perfectly between the academic theory and the practicality of ‘how to do it'. Dr Neil Thompson takes us on a humanistic journey that genuinely captures the human dimension of people management. This is an extremely helpful manual full of important and practical information about promoting well-being to achieve the best outcome for various everyday people management issues. The easy-to-understand inclusive language of this book calls to anyone interested in people management, meaning this is a perfect book for students, HR leaders, and practitioners. I know I will…
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