Description
Tap the skills of your most vital resource—employees. This book shows you how to improve individual and organizational performance by aligning corporate strategy with the management of people. You will learn why some people are more successful than others and how that can work for your organization.
Whatever your role---CEO, manager, or human resource professional---Achieving the Perfect Fit guides you in how your organization can use employee skills and talents to gain the competitive edge. This book shows you how to:
Improve your competitive position
Get the right people for the right job
Relate pay to skills
Manage cultural differences
Develop the leaders of tomorrow
An impressive team of international human resource management consultants provides you with new contributions and up-to-the-minute case studies.
Attain business success through leveraging individual performance with Achieving the Perfect Fit.
Tap the skills of your most vital resource—employees. This book shows you how to improve individual and organizational performance by aligning corporate strategy with the management of people. You will learn why some people are more successful than others and how that can work for your organization.
Whatever your role---CEO, manager, or human resource professional---Achieving the Perfect Fit guides you in how your organization can use employee skills and talents to gain the competitive edge. This book shows you how to:
*Improve your competitive position
*Get the right people for the right job
*Relate pay to skills
*Manage cultural differences
*Develop the leaders of tomorrow
An impressive team of international human resource management consultants provides you with new contributions and up-to-the-minute case studies.
Attain business success through leveraging individual performance with 'Achieving the Perfect Fit.'
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Building Competitive Advantage Through People, MURRAY DALZIEL; Chapter 2 Improving Organizational Performance: Aligning Corporate Strategy and the Management of People, SYLVIA DEVOGE, CHRISDYSON; Chapter 3 Why Are Some People More Successful than Others?, PATRICIA MARSHALL; Chapter 4 Worldwide Leadership Differences, JOHN B. LARRERE; Chapter 5 Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow at Unilever, NICKBOULTER; Chapter 6 Why Do Outside Experienced Hires Fail? A Case Study of Competency-Based Assessment and Selection, DR. MARY FONTAINE; Chapter 7 Managing for Motivation and Performance Improvement, DR. JAMES BURRUSS; Chapter 8 Coaching In—Appraisal Out, FRANK HARTLE; Chapter 9 Relating Pay to Competencies, DEREK PRITCHARD; Chapter 10 Getting the Right People for the Job, DANIEL BOUCHARD; Chapter 11 How to Use Competencies in Assessment, HEATHER BELL; Chapter 12 Improving Management Competence at Levi Strauss, ERIN LAP, AXEL PETERS;
