Executive Outlook

Motivating Employees for Dummies

Maintaining a highly motivated team is key to a company's success. A lack of employee enthusiasm can significantly affect your firm's productivity, and ultimately, your bottom line. While there is no "one size fits all" approach to motivating, this book provides insight into how managers can customize a plan that works for their own organization. Also included are real-world success stories.

Managing Your Career for Dummies

With so many work options for business professionals today, creating a personalized career path has never been more rewarding - or challenging. This latest book by Max Messmer, Chairman and CEO of Robert Half International Inc., is a comprehensive resource for identifying the best choices and charting a course for professional growth.

Human Resources Kit for Dummies

In today's competitive market for skilled job candidates, business leaders and HR professionals are looking for new ways to acquire and develop their firm's number one asset: intellectual capital. With practical tips and advice on current trends, such as online recruiting and team-based initiatives, this book provides key insights to help you decide which business practices make sense for your organization. In addition, the complementary CD-ROM supplies documents and materials to help you get started, from a job candidate evaluation form to a performance appraisal. Whether you're new to HR or recently responsible for some of its functions, you'll find just the information you need to support and respond to the "people needs" of your company.

The Fast Forward MBA in Hiring

A comprehensive guide to navigating today's complex hiring issues, including determining staffing needs, developing job descriptions, and recruiting, evaluating, retaining and training employees. This book contains innovative tactics and savvy, real-world advice for locating, selecting and keeping your most vital resource -- people. Written by Max Messmer, our Chairman and CEO.

Robert Half Management Resources works with clients on a daily basis who are dealing with corporate governance issues. We also work with a variety of media partners andfinancial institutions, as well asconduct research on an ongoing basis which gives us valuable insight into what is affecting companies in the UK at any given time of the year.

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Shared Service Centres are quickly growing in popularity with companies who wish to provide better service to clients, both internal and external,at a reduced cost and increased efficiency.

Robert Half Management Resources has experience with working with hundreds of clients across Europe with their SSC staffing needs - at all levels of development. We have been able to take away valuable learnings from each project that help with the next one, whether a client is interested in recruitment, retention, compensation packages or re-engineering their departments.

We can help clients in building an infrastructure from scratch, provide experienced project managers to oversee the SSC development, or source candidates with multiple language skills in various countries. Whatever you need to do, we more than likely have done it before.