Using examples from some successful companies, consultant Ahlrichs explains how to attract and retain quality workers. She presents ideas such as calculating the costs of turnover, using technology, increasing the number of offers accepted, and creating an exciting experience for new employees to reduce turnover. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Ch. 1 What Is the Global Demand for Expatriates? Ch. 2 What Are the Profiles of Today’s Expatriates? Ch. 3 What Are the Purposes of Expatriate Assignments? Ch. 4 What Challenges Do Expatriates and Managers Face? Ch. 5 How Can Managers Identify the Best Expatriate Candidates? What Can Individuals Do to Enroll? Ch. 6 How Should Managers Assess and Train the Ca…
Expands on three main keys to empowering others, focusing on the idea that empowerment is simply a way of releasing the power people already have inside them. Hands-on guide for managers to create a culture of empowerment in the workplace, providing a set of actions and issues that arise during all stages of the quest for empowerment.(barnesandnoble.com)
It shows: - How to diagnose the human resource policies of your firm and their immediate and long term consequences; and how to change them. - How to integrate personnel policies into the firm’s overall competitive strategy - How to create mechanism for employee influence and participation; how to assess the potential for union-management collaboration. - How to manage human resources flo…
Talent Force explains more than the creation of a new executive role for HR leaders: It also describes the competitive advantage that relationship recruiting creates. Although the technology of automatic applicant filters is discussed, the authors write that the human element must remain in the screening process. By outlining the attributes of great recruiters and the new resources they can use…
Do you know who the best people in your team are? Have you got a clear idea of how much they deliver? Many companies still proclaim that Our people are our most important asset', yet fail to treat that asset as valuable. In fact they often ignore their in-house talent, believing that the only way to get the top people is to seek elsewhere. This book destroys the widely-accepted myth of a talen…
Offer an invaluable new strategy for creating enthusiastic employees. Through the inspirational story of business leaders Peggy Sinclair and Andy Longclaw, Blanchard and Bowles reveal the secret of Gung Ho! -- a revolutionary technique to boost enthusiasm and performance and usher in astonishing results for any organization. The three principles of Gung Ho are the spirit of the Squirrel, the Wa…
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, …