Employees, careers, and job creation
Subtitle: developing growth-oriented human resource strategies and programs
By: Manuel London, editor ; foreword by Manuel London.
Contributors: London, Manuel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Joint publication in the Jossey-Bass management series and the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series; Jossey-Bass management series.; Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Career development.; Displaced workers.; Job creation.; Occupational retraining.
Description: 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 organization's 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.