A BOOK BY JAMES UTLEY
People Working
Doing Things That Matter
A practical guide for managers and HR practitioners on creating workplaces that are safe, welcoming and engaging — and work that is meaningful and rewarding.
Praise for People Working
“James Utley combines a relentlessly practical approach to HR Management with a strategic orientation. A must read for those aspiring to be senior HR professionals.”
Mark Selman, PhD
Director of Custom MBA Programs (retired), Beedie School of Business
“A very useful discussion of Human Resources practices and obligations by a knowledgeable and experienced practitioner.”
Gavin Hume, KC
Employment and Labour Law
“James ‘walks the talk’ in all things HR related, and the combination of technical content with the underlying case study running throughout makes for a very compelling read.”
John Hammond, MBA
Managing Director (retired), Willis Towers Watson
About the book
People Working is about how managers and human resource practitioners can help people realize the potential they bring to the organizations that employ them – creating workplaces that are safe, welcoming and engaging, and work that is meaningful and rewarding. It’s also about how human resource policies and practices are affected by organizational culture and management, either helping or hindering employees as they carry out their work.
People Working examines a number of human resource practices including culture and structure, training and development, diversity and inclusion, performance management, alternate work arrangements, and compensation, and their effect on organizations, work groups, and employee engagement. To illustrate how these practices play out in a workplace, People Working includes a fictional story about an HR manager and her colleagues, and the challenges that confronted them and actions they took to save an industrial plant and the jobs of the people who work there.
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