KLO People Dynamics
"The Secret is People"©

People Dynamics
The Manager's
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Articles to stimulate your thinking and
book reviews for aspiring managers
and other interested readers.

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Quick Index:

• Management Articles
• Other Articles
• Book Reviews
• Surveys

Quick Index

Management Articles:

• Suggestions for hiring the right people by Lee Rudin
  
• Cost of Employee Turnover or "how much are we really throwing into that bottomless pit called employee turnover?"
  
• Why Motivation Is Free?: A memorandum that discusses what motivates employees and why paying for it is not necessary. Motivation is free for the enlightened manager.
  
• Right Person--Right Job: A memorandum that discusses the concept of Job Fit and how to select the right person for the job.
  
• How to Avoid the Peter Principal When Selecting Managers
  
• How to Control Employee Costs Before Making the Hire
  
• Power in the Workplace-- a few thoughts
  
• How to Answer Questions with a P.R.E.R.:A memorandum that discusses how to answer questions when in front of a selection committee. Follow this advice and prevent your employees from making the most common interview errors.
  
• People are our most important asset:Do you hear or speak these words? What do they really mean? These words are spoken frequently, but how often do we give meaning to the phrase?
  

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Book Reviews:

• The Buck Stops Here: Accountability and the Empowered Manager
  
• The Goal, a Process of Ongoing Improvement
  
• How Corporate Truths Become Competitive Traps
  
• The Managerial Mystique, Restoring Leadership In Business
  
• The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
  
• The Peter Principle, why things always go wrong
  
• Please Understand Me, character & temperament types
  
• Soar with your Strengths Focus on Strengths and Manage the Weaknesses
  
• 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make, and how you can avoid them
  
• Too Perfect - When Being In Control Gets Out of Control
  
• Zapp! the Lightning of Empowerment
  

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Other Articles:

• Fraud Alert: Attention Credit Card Holders--A Personal Story
  
• The Wonders of Microsurgery: or how to fix a ruptured disc.
  
• Big Mamie (BB-59): Explore Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts:
  a public service announcement
  
• America's reputation as the world's cultural melting pot is at risk
  
• Fly Now - Pay Later, the airlines slogan developed and popularized decades ago by the advertising industry, gave birth to the "Buy Now - Pay Later" mentality of more recent years.
  

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Surveys:

HRNET Survey: What makes for a good manager?

• Index Page: Exhibits 1 through 7
  
• Exhibit 1: Original 28 Questions, 50 Respondents
  
• Exhibit 1T: Table Summary of Answers and Statistics for the 28 questions.
  
• Exhibit 2: Graphical Presentation of Summary Table
  
• Exhibit 3: Job Description Pattern
  
• Exhibit 4: STEN Scores
  
• Exhibit 5: Right Person--Right Job
  The next two exhibits are large files that take awhile to load, please have patience.
  
• Exhibit 6: What the Instrument Measures
  
• Exhibit 7: Sample Hiring Report
  

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