Play to Your Strengths - Managing Your Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage

Haig R. Nalbantian
Richard A. Guzzo
Dave Kieffer
and Jay Doherty

McGraw-Hill

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Play to your strengths : managing your internal labor markets for lasting competitive advantage / by Haig R. Nalbantian ... [et al.]. p. cm. ISBN 0-07-142253-6 (alk. paper) 1. Human capital. 2. Labor productivity. 3. Organizational effectiveness. 4. Competition. I. Nalbantian, Haig R. HD4904.7.P56 2003 658.3’01—dc21 2003014194