Common Sense Talent Management: Using Strategic Human Resources to Improve Company Performance | 1 Edition

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This book integrates information from a wide range of scientific studies investigating workforce productivity and present it in a framework that non-academically oriented professionals will find engaging, insightful, and effective for improving their ability to maximize the performance of employees. It explains scientific research findings related to three basic topics critical for maximizing workforce productivity:  Job performance. The book explains the fundamental components that drive job performance. It discusses how the three basic elements of a job (objectives, competencies, and requirements) interact with the three fundamental attributes of employees (experience, attributes, and goals) to influence employee productivity and engagement. It provides a clear and concise description of the elements that need to be considered when designing jobs, hiring employees into these jobs, and managing their performance after they are hired.  Employee productivity. The book discusses widely accepted research findings related to employee productivity that are often ignored or overlooked by managers and companies. These research findings are presented in the form of twelve fundamental principles for maximizing employee engagement and retention. Talent management methods. The book describes key decisions and processes that make or break a companys efforts to maximize workforce productivity. This includes designing jobs that balance the companys business needs and employees career goals, ensuring that people hired into different jobs will be successful, maximizing performance of employees after they have been hired, and developing employees over time to ensure the company has a steady supply of highly engaged talent to support organizational growth. Techniques are provided for creating sustainable, efficient talent management methods that reflect and reinforce fundamental concepts associated with maximizing employee productivity and engagement. In addition to these three core topic areas, the book also contains a variety of short vignettes called reality checks and practice guides. Reality checks highlight common misconceptions held by managers and employees about human behavior. For example, the myth that people can be effective at multi-tasking or the widespread belief that the values and abilities of employees from one generation are fundamentally different from those of another generation. Practice guides provide step-by-step explanations of how to implement some of the concepts discussed in the book. For example, how to define the competencies required for a job or how to provide effective employee feedback.