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Terms and conditions applyHR for Creative Companies (Creative Business Essentials Series)
Kate Marks
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Format: Book
Pages: 160
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Date Published: Feb 2016
Stock Code: 84265
ISBN: 9781859465936
Binding: Paperback
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Total votes: 5
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There is an increasing realisation that small businesses, including architecture practices need to pro-actively engage with HR rather than simply firefighting when something goes wrong. Good HR practices can help with business efficiency and profitability – they provide positive commercial tools that architects and other professionals can use to enhance their creativity whilst simultaneously increasing their commerciality.
This book will provide simple, pragmatic and practical advice, anecdotes and template documents for a variety of common situations that arise in the HR employee life-cycle, such as succession planning and staff engagement. Using examples from a range of different architecture practices, readers will learn how these organizations have successfully approached the issue of people management, by implementing tried and tested HR models.
Aimed at sole and small practices , this easy to digest book shows architects and other design professionals that HR can be a positive, profitable and even pleasurable tool for business success.
- Unique Structure: focussed around the employee lifecycle, including the points of interaction with the market place; delivered in small/short bite sized chunks for easy consumption by busy professionals
- Pedagogical Features: The use of key term boxes, chapter summaries, etc., all make the book more readable and useful. There will also be the use of graphics and illustrations to ensure maximum engagement from visually orientated readers
- Relevance: Case studies from the industry, illustrations that are specific to the architecture profession. Also, specific theories and models that reflect on the profession
- Pragmatism/commerciality: Focus on solutions and what architects can do to get the most out of their team and their business
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Featured Reviews
Paul Vick, Founder, Paul Vick architects ltd Shortlisted for: London Architecture Firm 2015 and Architect of the Year 2011
Never has creativity been more important to this generation and our economy, and as Kate Marks points out our most important and expensive asset is our people. And not just for architectural practices - interior design, product and graphic design, fine art, publishing, fashion, music, TV and film.
From recruitment, to retention, release and rehiring this guide demystifies with straightforward suggestions and methods. It identifies and goes beyond the pitfalls and dread of human resources. Very handy to read and refer back to for all your HR needs.
Robert Fry, Managing Director International, Aukett Swanke
A thorough and concise guide covering every aspect of the career cycle, enriched with valuable recent and real case experience. Definitely worth having to hand whether you are an employer, an employee or just interested in what's what in creative industries.
Nigel Ostime, Project Delivery Director at Hawkins\Brown and author of the Small Projects Handbook
This book is ideal for practices who do not employ an HR professional, who will benefit enormously from the no-nonsense advice and standard letters and checklists. The case studies are particularly helpful, giving a real-world background to the core content, which is made easy to digest by the liberal use of tips, diagrams and flow charts. Recruiting and retaining the best people are business-critical activities and it is worth taking time to make sure that happens. Reading this book will show you how.
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