Competency-Based Human Resource Management: Discover a New System for Unleashing the Productive Power of Exemplary Performers - Softcover

Thorough, honest, solid, and especially useful if YOU are the one called upon to explain all this to everybody else! * Training * This comprehensive, applied handbook will be of significant interest to HR professionals, professors, and students alike. * Choice * HR helps organization get the best out of its workforce. This book presents a new method for managing that talent. * HR Magazine * Explains how fitting employee talents to the work is more effective method. This comprehensive guidebook shows how to do it. * Soundview Executive Book Summary * A well-researched book with practical application appropriate for a teaching text as well as a professional resource. A well-balanced presentation of theory and practice that acknowledges challenges as well as opportunities. Very readable-a must for the busy HR professional. -- Edith M. Donohue, Ph.D., SPHR, consultant; coauthor of Life After Layoff A book inexorably linked to post-millennium business success! Best-in-class companies must look beyond profit and head count to drive the world economy and social change. Dubois and Rothwell's brilliant and pragmatic concept of competency-based HR systems is one of the foundations of this contemporary approach! -- Regina M. Sacha, Vice President, Human Resources, FedEx Custom Critical I challenge any HR or training professional to use these methodologies in his or her organization. It will mean a whole new way of partnering with the other functional areas. -- Kimberly R. Woollard, Vice President, Human Resources, MacDill Federal Credit Union A must read for any manager responsible for change in his or her organization. I have implemented these concepts with my managers and have seen direct results with their strategic thinking and problem resolution skills. -- Jacquelyn Nunez, Vice President, Group Operations, The Union Labor Life Insurance Co.

Force-fitting employees to job descriptions leads to unhappy people and substandard performance. For years, HR professionals have struggled with this dilemma. But it doesn't have to be that way. Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes a new model of performance management that matches employee talents to the work that must be done. By focusing on the critical competencies that distinguish star performers, HR professionals can transform the way they recruit, select, train, develop, and compensate top-performing employees.