Employees, Careers, and Job Creation: Developing Growth-Oriented Human Resources

Description: Employees, Careers, and Job Creation by Manuel London The fifth volume in the Professional Practice Series, sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association. This is a new age for both workers and companies. Organizations have attempted to downsize, reengineer, or restructure their way to greatness only to find that such dramatic change efforts fail to produce real long-term economic growth. In the process, these changes have wreaked havoc on the jobs, careers, and lives of employees everywhere. Yet, there are some workers and companies breaking new ground in finding successful alternatives to employee displacement and downsizing--in organizations that have discovered new and creative ways to link employee development and job creation with organizational economic growth.In this new volume of the Professional Practice Series--the first to be published by Jossey-Bass--Manuel London brings together a group of research and practice experts to show how such leading companies as AT&T have responded to demands for change with programs that enhance career opportunities for individuals and stimulate organizational growth. In thirteen original chapters, London and his contributors detail how industrial and organizational psychologists, human resource professionals, and consultants have created innovative human resource development and training programs. These programs go beyond the traditional emphasis on interest surveys, career tracks, and interview skills to train employees in the abilities that actually create new jobs within organizations--skills such as entrepreneurial aptitude, work flexibility, and a value-added orientation."Employees, Careers, and Job Creation" shows how to predict the career opportunities that will open up in an organizations future, assess employee skills, develop training goals, and overcome such barriers to success as employee resistance to learning. It also offers examples of how organization and community-based support programs can assist displaced workers in the event layoffs prove inevitable. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is a new age for both workers and companies. Organizations have attempted to downsize, reengineer, or restructure their way to greatness only to find that such dramatic change efforts fail to produce real long-term economic growth. In the process, these changes have wreaked havoc on the jobs, careers, and lives of employees everywhere. Yet, there are some workers and companies breaking new ground in finding successful alternatives to employee displacement and downsizing--in organizations that have discovered new and creative ways to link employee development and job creation with organizational economic growth. In this new volume of the Professional Practice Series--the first to be published by Jossey-Bass--Manuel London brings together a group of research and practice experts to show how such leading companies as AT&T have responded to demands for change with programs that enhance career opportunities for individuals and stimulate organizational growth. In thirteen original chapters, London and his contributors detail how industrial and organizational psychologists, human resource professionals, and consultants have created innovative human resource development and training programs. These programs go beyond the traditional emphasis on interest surveys, career tracks, and interview skills to train employees in the abilities that actually create new jobs within organizations--skills such as entrepreneurial aptitude, work flexibility, and a value-added orientation. Employees, Careers, and Job Creation shows how to predict the career opportunities that will open up in an organizations future, assess employee skills, develop training goals, and overcome such barriers to success as employee resistance to learning. It also offers examples of how organization and community-based support programs can assist displaced workers in the event layoffs prove inevitable. Author Biography MANUEL LONDON is professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resource Management in the Harriman School of Management and Policy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. London spent twelve years at AT&T in a series of human resource and training positions as manager and researcher. He is the author of eight books, including Managing the Training Enterprise (Jossey-Bass, 1989). Table of Contents 1. Employee Development and Job Creation: Trends, Problems, OpportunitiesJennifer Jarrett, Joseph F. Coates Part One: Career Development Programs in Changing Organizations 2. Organizational Growth and Employee Advancement: Tracking the OpportunitiesAmy Hurley, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld 3. Career Development in Downsizing Organizations: A Self-Affirmation AnalysisJoel Brockner, Robert J. Lee 4. Integrated Human Resource Development: Building Professional Competences and CommunitiesEdward M. Mone, Melissa A. Bilger Part Two: New Patterns of Employment 5. Salvaging Displaced Employees: Job Obsolescence, Retraining, and RedeploymentH. G. Kaufman 6. Managing Part-Time and Temporary Employment Relationships: Individual Needs and Organizational DemandsDaniel C. Feldman 7. Creating and Managing a Resource Link: The Internal Contingent Work ForceJames W. Smither 8. Developing Entrepreneurs: Skills for the "Wanna Be," "Gonna Be," and "Gotta Be Better" EmployeesJohn Eggers Part Three: Economic Development and Revitalized Careers 9. Supporting Career Transitions in a Time of Organizational Downsizing: The Michigan JOBS ProgramRichard H. Price, Amiram D. Vinokur 10. Creating Opportunities for Displaced Workers: Center for Commercial CompetitivenessLarry Last, Robert W. E. Peterson, Jack Rappaport, Carin Webb 11. Engaging Displaced Employees in Job Creation: Experiences in High-Tech FirmsGerrit Wolf, Joseph Pufahl, Jeff Casey, Manny London 12. Developing Computerized Outplacement Counseling Programs: The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and BaseRobert J. Vance, David V. Day 13. Coping with Job Loss: The Collective Activism of Community-Based Job Creation and Retention StrategiesCarrie R. Leana, Daniel C. Feldman Details ISBN0470547669 ISBN-10 0470547669 ISBN-13 9780470547663 Format Paperback Language English Media Book DEWEY 331.2592 Illustrations Illustrations Short Title EMPLOYEES CAREERS & JOB CREATI Edition 1st Subtitle Developing Growth-Oriented Human Resources Strategies and Programs UK Release Date 2009-05-13 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 346 AU Release Date 1995-07-26 NZ Release Date 1995-07-26 Author Manuel London Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-05-13 Imprint Pfeiffer Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2009-05-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:22426472;

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