Human Assets

Looking at the key issues in contemporary talent management, this guide offers advice on  how to engage people in the context of a recession as well as how to identify and develop them. It introduces a method for defining the qualities you are looking for in talented people that is straightforward and more suited than competencies to these austere times. 

Charles Woodruffe's book on designing and implementing assessment and development centres enters its fourth edition this year. This definitive text shows you how to:

The book emphasises the crucial importance of securing the talented people needed for the business to succeed. A strategy to achieve this is vital. Winning the talent war was given a very positive review in October 2001's Training Journal. The review described the book as 'focused value for money' and 'easy to read' and concludes by saying it is 'recommended as essential reading for the strategic manager'.
Winning the Talent War is available from all good booksellers.

 

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides a state-of-the-art review of theory, research and professional practice in the field of selection and assessment. Charles has contributed an excellent chapter to this publication that focuses on the effect emotion has on behaviour at work and how a greater understanding of its impact can aid effective selection decisions.

The Handbook of Personnel Selection is available from good booksellers.