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Guide to Responsible Restructuring
Wayne F. Cascio

Diane Pub Co, 1995

Researched and written by Wayne F. Cascio. Looks at the effects of downsizing on firm performance. Describes some of the approaches companies have taken to avoid involuntary layoffs and to restructure responsibly. Provides guidelines on how to begin responsible restructuring to produce competitive companies and committed workers.

Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management (6th Edition)

2 reviews
Wayne F Cascio, Herman Aguinis

Prentice Hall, 2004

Fantastic update!
The 6th edition fixes some errors in the 5th edition. Most importantly, it provides an impressive update of the literature. Excellent resource for students in I/O psychology and HR programs.

Managing Human Resources
Wayne F. Cascio

McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2005

This book is perfect for the general management student whose job inevitably will involve responsibility for managing people. It explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life and profits to various human resource management activities. In so doing, it strengthens the students' perception of human resource management as an important function, which affects individuals, organizations and society. The text is ...

Managing Human Resources

2 reviews
Wayne F. Cascio

Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1997

Fantastic - ties it all together
This is a great book. It very nicely ties together all phases of the employment process focusing on making data-driven decisions and linking HR and I/O Psychology functions to the bottom line. Throughout the text it provides 'capsules' on case studies to illustrate the points in each section. A must have for the scientist / practitioner and management generalist!

Costing Human Resources

1 review
Wayne F. Cascio

South-Western College Pub, 1999

Very Helpful to the HR professional!!
I actually bought this book because I was working on a class project for Labor Relations and needed to read Chapter 7. Once I got the book, though, I realized that I had actually gotten a treasure. This book will help any HR professional who wants to think strategically and find a way to quantify the value of any organization's most valuable commodity-its people. The book is surprisingly easy to ...

Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives
Wayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau

FT Press, 2008

A Logical, Proven Framework for Understanding the Economic Value of Human Resources Investments *How to choose Human Resources investments that deliver optimal strategic value--and eliminate those that don't *Best-practice metrics and analysis techniques for talent management, performance management, health and wellness programs, and much more Investing in People introduces a breakthrough approach to Human Resources (HR) measurement that ...

Responsible Restructuring: Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs

6 reviews
Wayne F Cascio

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002

Do you want the No-layoff Payoff?
Downsizing remains very populair. It's easy to understand why. Whenever a company gets into serious financial trouble you have to rapidly increase revenues or to bring down costs. An easy choice: everyone knows that future costs are far more controllable and predictable that future revenues. So costs are cut. And what better cost to cut than labor costs? In many companies these costs represent a ...