Keys to Employee Success in Coming Decades

A new set of major changes is reshaping the economy and creating challenges that are testing the mettle and talents of organizations and their employees. Unless organizations and their employees develop the requisite skills they need to cope with these challenges, many will become casualties of their own deficiencies. Keys to Employee Success in Coming Decades seeks to prepare employees for future success in an increasingly demanding and competitive global environment. Sims, Veres, and their contributors are careful to focus on what employees at different levels in the organization will need to do to be successful in the twenty-first century.

Mastery of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors discussed by the contributors in this book will lead to enhanced employee performance as the new decade approaches. The requirements for new employees or the redesigned employees is quickly changing. The organizations of tomorrow will expect employees who understand the importance of success; who welcome change and accept it, master it, and deliberately cause it. They are also employees who are proactive innovators, who confront constraints and the limitations on actions that they impose, who take risks and who continue to develop themselves professionally, technically, and personally. Written clearly, concisely, and with a minimum of academic jargon, the book will be important reading for specialists in human resource management, training and development, and others with critical responsibilities throughout the organization.

RONALD R. SIMS is the Floyd Dewey Gottwald Sr. Professor of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary, where he teaches organization behavior and human resource management. He is author, co-author, and editor or co-editor of more than fifteen books and more than 70 articles in a wide range of scholarly and professional journals.

JOHN G. VERES III is Director of the Center for Business and Economic Development at Auburn University. He teaches courses in Auburn's Department of Psychology on psychometric theory and measurement and conducts research on job analysis, test validation, and issues in equal employment opportunity. Among his more recent books are Human Resource Management and the Americans with Disabilities Act (Greenwood, 1995) which he co-edited with Professor Sims.