Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development
• Blends approaches to workforce planning and development at the organizational level with career development practice at the organizational and individual levels to advance thinking about how to address and integrate these critical aspects of workforce strength• Demonstrates the application of metrics to inform progress• Introduces new approaches to framing workforce and career development principles• Provides readers with solid, nuts-and-bolts techniques and procedures for designing, developing, and measuring career development processes and systems• Contributions from 16 experienced practitioners of workforce and career development• Multiple examples of practical applications of workforce and career development initiatives from major industry sectors, such as healthcare and high technology• Two lengthy case studies, including one on Kaiser Permanente• 19 quantitative and qualitative figures• An extensive reference list from the workforce and career development fields