Building workforce strength : creating value through workforce and career development - Elsdon, Ron, 1950- (Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2010)
This book 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.--[book cover]
""Brings valuable new insights by tying workforce and career development together in a comprehensive way for practitioners at all levels in organizations" Sen or Vice President, Human Resources, Follett Higher Education Group" ""Captures the essence of how cutting-edge, forward-thinking, organizations can build workforce strength while adjusting to a changing world of work" Director, Career Services, University of California, Haas School of Business" ""The capability to build workforce strength is essential to the current and future success of all health organizations. This book could not be more timely or important, it offers practical and powerful tools and insights that health leaders can use to build the workforce they need to meet their priority goals." Dean, Public Health Practice, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Co-Director, California Health Workforce Alliance, Co-Director, California Health Professions Consortium" ""Everyone interested in improving healthcare delivery and maximizing the opportunity for healthcare workers to contribute their ideas and energy to the process should read this book. It includes invaluable insights gained from the joint labor management work with SEIU and other unions at Kaiser Permanente. I highly recommend it to both union and health industry leaders." Executive Director, 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds" ""We believe that effective workforce development is a crucial element in the transformation of health care. This book provides both practical guidelines and real-life examples to support organizational progress." SVP, Office of Labor Management Partnership, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan" ""Genuine workforce strength can be cultivated in the rich soil of organizational structures and approaches aimed at supporting people as they learn and grow. This book offers us inspirational examples of organizations that dared to plow the soil of workforce and career development and reaped a rich harvest as a result." Faculty, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University" "As the saying goes, a company's greatest resource is its people. When managers really believe that and work to develop organizational capabilities, productivity, sales, and profits can rise dramatically." "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 that 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."--BOOK JACKET.
What does workforce strength look like and why does it matter? / Ron Elsdon and Rita Erickson -- Understanding the needs of different individuals / Rita Erickson and Michele McCarthy -- Linking to educational systems and community development / Nancy Atwood, Anna Domek and Richard Vicenzi -- Creating value with workforce planning and development / Bob Redlo and Ron Elsdon -- Designing, developing, and measuring effective career development processes and systems / Rita Erickson and Ron Elsdon -- Implementing and carrying the career development message / Amy Lichty and Darlene Martin -- Acknowledging and addressing components of career fitness / Michele DeRosa and Cynthia Brinkman Doyle -- Tailoring approaches to address the needs of different populations / Shannon Jordan, Lisa Franklin and Martha Edwards -- Example case studies : healthcare and high-technology / Zeth Ajemian, Mark Malcolm and Ron Elsdon -- Weaving the threads together / Ron Elsdon.
Includes bibliographical references (P. [213]-220) and index.
Keywords: Career development; Personnel management; Loopbaanplanning; Personeelsmanagement