Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313379262 ISBN 13: 9780313379260

Publisher: Praeger, 2010

Synopsis

This book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizational strength through workforce development practices and systems.

In an environment where information, service, and knowledge are primary sources of value creation, workforce strength is central to securing prosperity. Written by practitioners for practitioners, Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development bridges the disciplines of organization and individual development, showing those charged with organizational progress why workforce strength is a key component of prosperity―and how it can be achieved.

This hands-on volume is organized in three sections that establish a foundation for workforce and career development, explore implementation in organizations, and examine the process's implications for working with individuals. Showcasing workforce and career development practices and systems for both represented and nonrepresented populations, it provides a framework, techniques, and examples that will guide approaches to building workforce strength. Applications of workforce and career development principles in a variety of sectors, such as healthcare and high technology, offer tangible examples of these principles in practice.

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About the Author

RON ELSDON, PhD, is a founder of organizations that specialize in career and workforce development for organizations and individuals. He has also been active in speaking, writing about and promoting a range of social causes. Ron has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience at diverse organizations in a broad range of sectors, and has been an adjunct faculty member at, or affiliated with, several universities. He has authored numerous publications and has spoken regularly at national and regional events. With his co-author, Ron was awarded the Walker Prize by the Human Resource Planning Society for the paper that best advances state-of-the-art thinking or practices in human resources. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Cambridge University, a master's degree in career development from John F. Kennedy University, and a first class honors degree in chemical engineering from Leeds University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313379262
• ISBN 13: 9780313379260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Elsdon Ron