The Truth About Managing People: Proven Insights to Get the Best from Your Team, Fourth Edition

Preface

There has never been a shortage of “how to” books to help managers get the most from their human resources. Managers have long been bombarded with advice from consultants, professors, business journalists, and assorted management “gurus” on how to manage their employees. Unfortunately, much of this advice is a gross generalization, based more on opinions rather than fact. The exceptions tend to be overly complicated, long-winded presentations, containing a lot of theory but not much practical advice.

The Truth About Managing People was created to fill the need for a clearly written, practical guide to managing human resources, built on solid evidence rather than opinion. As someone who has been teaching and writing about managing people ...