Developing Your Human Resources

By Woodrow Sears

Every employee has potential to become more effective and productive. Developing that potential is an organizational choice and challenge. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it should be intentional, the result of a managerial philosophy, and can be the key to retaining the best employees. The author's doctorate is in Human Resource Development, and the approach he offers really works!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Woodrow Sears
• Release date: Jan 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458166456

Woodrow Sears

Semi-retired consultant, active college instructor, author (6 books for HRD Press in 2007-8), regular contributor to the Cincom "ExpertAccess" business e-zine. I hold one of the early doctorates in Human Resource Development, lectured extensively on project management on an international circuit, worked with clients to install systems, and was heavily involved in civil rights, supervisory, and management training. Came to Lithuania in 1998 as a volunteer, and never left. I live in Vilnius in a former monastery, heat with wood (by choice), and love cooking for friends. Living in Europe is special everyday!

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DEVELOPING YOUR HUMAN RESOURCES

by

Dr. Woody Sears

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Developing Your Human Resources

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1. Author’s Note

2. Developing Your Human Resources

3. Introduction

4. Staffing for Optimum Performance

5. KASOs, Quickly

6. What Business Are You In?

7. Finding Career Paths in Flat Organizations

8. Training Your Employees

9. Making Training Needs Obvious

10. Never Let Anyone Fail

11. Developing Your Employees

12. Building on Five Basic Ideas About People at Work

13. Working with the People Part of Management

14. Developing Human Resources

15. Postscript

16. About the Author

Author's Note

There's a buyer's market for the employers these days, based on a worldwide economic crisis and the amazing job-killing impact of technology on production processes. Only in the service industries, it seems, have old fashioned values endured—the market is strong for relatively low-skilled, low paid people who literally trade time and (mostly interpersonal) skills for modest wages. But even in this buyer's market, screening applicants for talent and a proven ability remains