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

Dubois, David D.; Stern, Deborah Jo King; Kemp, Linda K.; Rothwell, William J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891061746 ISBN 13: 9780891061748

Publisher: Davies-Black, 2004

Synopsis

Trying to match people to job descriptions is a hopeless task that leads to employee dissatisfaction and poor performance. This book urges organizations to apply a new model of performance management in which the HR department selects, trains and develops employees by matching their talents to their work. No more "force fitting" the employee into a "job box" where the individual may not, and usually does not, possess the full compliment of competencies for successful job performance. Dubois and Rothwell provide a step-by-step plan to reengineer the HR function to focus on competencies. These competencies become the benchmark for all HR activities, resulting in enhanced employee satisfaction and significant gains in productivity.

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Review

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.)

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 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)

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)

Explains how fitting employee talents to the work is more effective method. This comprehensive guidebook shows how to do it. (Soundview Executive Book Summary)

HR helps organization get the best out of its workforce. This book presents a new method for managing that talent. (HR Magazine)

This comprehensive, applied handbook will be of significant interest to HR professionals, professors, and students alike. (Choice)

Thorough, honest, solid, and especially useful if YOU are the one called upon to explain all this to everybody else! (Training)

About the Author

David D. DuBois, William J. Rothwell

Edition details

• Publisher: Davies-Black
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891061746
• ISBN 13: 9780891061748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376