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Leading, Managing and Developing People
This text has been designed specifically to cater for the CIPD module in 'Managing and Leading People' and as such is closely aligned to the standards. Students on similar modules with appropriate content such as 'people and organisations', on wider business degrees, will also find the book useful.
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First published September 1, 2010
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February 18, 2012
This is the book for my second, and exam based, CIPD module. Like with the previous book, I am sure we will be required to read all the chapters, thankfully this one is only around 300 pages as opposed to the 600 of the other one.
Chapter 1 - this was the introduction to the book, with a couple of case studies and an outline on how the book with progress in terms of structure. I found the case studies and the questions a bit of a challenge to get through, I'm not sure why, or whether I'm just reading too much into it, but the questions seemed quite hard. I think I need to go back and recap the case studies when I make my notes for this chapter so I can try to understand this a bit better.
Chapter 2 - I'm starting to come to the conclusion that these CIPD books are nothing if not super wordy. In an attempt to get ahead on the material before the study day so I at least have an idea of what is going on, I've started to read the material for the first unit (there is a lot of reading for this one - unfortunately it's the exam course). Rather than starting with the study pack I've taken the textbook and am tucked up under my duvet because it's well below freezing and my flat I'd still cold even with the heating on full and have started to read. It wasn't until I got to the bit about ulrichs model that I started to understand what this was on about. It's a very wordy chapter with lots of food for thought that I don't really understand yet. Hopefully it will become clearer as I progress...
Chapter 3 - I'm struggling my way through this book and it doesn't seem to get any easier, the material makes sense in isolation and perhaps I getting hung up on not understanding how it fits together and I'll be able to translate into exam material. Not helped that my concentration is interrupted every 5 minutes by Xbox gamers sat in my flat!
Chapter 4 - finally a chapter that I have come some way to understanding. This chapter focuses on ethics which is something I did as part of my a level studies. This chapter goes less around the houses than its predecessors have done and actually makes sense. These ate the different views, these are the challenges, and these are some of the things that can be done to help. Rayner and Christy have done a good job with this chapter and have given me some hope that maybe im not that thick and I might actually be able to get through this course and scrape a pass...
Chapter 5 - essentially simple models of leadership complicated by lots of blurb around research, which whilst important, has been dropped into this chapter to make a point about how important current study in these fields are. It doesn't feel like that adds anything to it, just blurring the borders of the different theories and the principles addressed.
Chapter 6 - yet another chapter I struggled through. I understand the principles of change but there was so much material in this chapter it was difficult to know where one point stopped and another begun. I think when I come to make notes from this i'll be able to break this out and make sense of it, but reading it as continuous passages trying to understand what was going on was a significant challenge.
Chapter 7 - this chapter scratches the surface of the interesting employment relationship and psychological contract. I'm glad this isn't one I have to focus on writing an essay about as it is very complex, but its quite a interesting topic area and certainly something to examine further in the future
Chapter 8 - organisational and job design is a tricky concept to get your head around and this book has lots of theories in that I'm struggling to understand. But it is an interesting topic area.
Chapter 9 - we're back on familiar ground with this unit as its all focused on recruitment and selection, unfortunately not a question in the exam. Luckily I'm practised in most of this and this has given me the theory that sits behind it.
Chapter 10 - Developing employees. An interesting subject area with a number of models that, once I get my head around, I will be ok with understanding. A little more straightforward than some of the other chapters, perhaps because it is an area I can relate to.
Chapter 11 - Managing the employment relationship is a topic that I am quite interested in, perhaps because of the diversity aspect and I currently work in the wider talent and diversity team. This is the topic area we've been told to steer clear of for the exam because there's not much literature around it. This chapter was very engaging and I found that I was quite interested in the material that was there.
Chapter 12 - performance management, reward and motivation is the key area for the exam and despite the fact that I wrote my first degree dissertation on this, there appears to be new information for me to learn and a lot I've forgotten. Again another rather complicated chapter that has given me quite a thick head.
Chapter 13 - the closing chapter of this book recaps the rest of it. I think this may help guide my thinking for the case study exercise there is as part of the exam which focuses on the future trends of HR.
Finally finished the read through of the book this time, but my challenges with the material are far from over and I will be coming back to this book over and over again between now and the exam in may.
Chapter 1 - this was the introduction to the book, with a couple of case studies and an outline on how the book with progress in terms of structure. I found the case studies and the questions a bit of a challenge to get through, I'm not sure why, or whether I'm just reading too much into it, but the questions seemed quite hard. I think I need to go back and recap the case studies when I make my notes for this chapter so I can try to understand this a bit better.
Chapter 2 - I'm starting to come to the conclusion that these CIPD books are nothing if not super wordy. In an attempt to get ahead on the material before the study day so I at least have an idea of what is going on, I've started to read the material for the first unit (there is a lot of reading for this one - unfortunately it's the exam course). Rather than starting with the study pack I've taken the textbook and am tucked up under my duvet because it's well below freezing and my flat I'd still cold even with the heating on full and have started to read. It wasn't until I got to the bit about ulrichs model that I started to understand what this was on about. It's a very wordy chapter with lots of food for thought that I don't really understand yet. Hopefully it will become clearer as I progress...
Chapter 3 - I'm struggling my way through this book and it doesn't seem to get any easier, the material makes sense in isolation and perhaps I getting hung up on not understanding how it fits together and I'll be able to translate into exam material. Not helped that my concentration is interrupted every 5 minutes by Xbox gamers sat in my flat!
Chapter 4 - finally a chapter that I have come some way to understanding. This chapter focuses on ethics which is something I did as part of my a level studies. This chapter goes less around the houses than its predecessors have done and actually makes sense. These ate the different views, these are the challenges, and these are some of the things that can be done to help. Rayner and Christy have done a good job with this chapter and have given me some hope that maybe im not that thick and I might actually be able to get through this course and scrape a pass...
Chapter 5 - essentially simple models of leadership complicated by lots of blurb around research, which whilst important, has been dropped into this chapter to make a point about how important current study in these fields are. It doesn't feel like that adds anything to it, just blurring the borders of the different theories and the principles addressed.
Chapter 6 - yet another chapter I struggled through. I understand the principles of change but there was so much material in this chapter it was difficult to know where one point stopped and another begun. I think when I come to make notes from this i'll be able to break this out and make sense of it, but reading it as continuous passages trying to understand what was going on was a significant challenge.
Chapter 7 - this chapter scratches the surface of the interesting employment relationship and psychological contract. I'm glad this isn't one I have to focus on writing an essay about as it is very complex, but its quite a interesting topic area and certainly something to examine further in the future
Chapter 8 - organisational and job design is a tricky concept to get your head around and this book has lots of theories in that I'm struggling to understand. But it is an interesting topic area.
Chapter 9 - we're back on familiar ground with this unit as its all focused on recruitment and selection, unfortunately not a question in the exam. Luckily I'm practised in most of this and this has given me the theory that sits behind it.
Chapter 10 - Developing employees. An interesting subject area with a number of models that, once I get my head around, I will be ok with understanding. A little more straightforward than some of the other chapters, perhaps because it is an area I can relate to.
Chapter 11 - Managing the employment relationship is a topic that I am quite interested in, perhaps because of the diversity aspect and I currently work in the wider talent and diversity team. This is the topic area we've been told to steer clear of for the exam because there's not much literature around it. This chapter was very engaging and I found that I was quite interested in the material that was there.
Chapter 12 - performance management, reward and motivation is the key area for the exam and despite the fact that I wrote my first degree dissertation on this, there appears to be new information for me to learn and a lot I've forgotten. Again another rather complicated chapter that has given me quite a thick head.
Chapter 13 - the closing chapter of this book recaps the rest of it. I think this may help guide my thinking for the case study exercise there is as part of the exam which focuses on the future trends of HR.
Finally finished the read through of the book this time, but my challenges with the material are far from over and I will be coming back to this book over and over again between now and the exam in may.
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