Development and Assessment Centres: Identifying and Developing Competence

Woodruffe, Charles

ISBN 10: 0955448808 / ISBN 13: 9780955448805

Published by Human Assets Ltd, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development and Assessment Centres: Identifying and Developing Competence
• Publisher: Human Assets Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955448808
• ISBN 13: 9780955448805
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Development and Assessment Centres takes the reader through the entire process of thinking about and managing development and assessment centres. It shows you how to create the strategic foundations for centres, how to run them - relating what they do to key competencies and to the HR system as a whole - and how to train assessors and observers. Finally, it explains what happens after the centre has finished, including feeding back to participants and validating the centre. Throughout, Dr. Woodruffe presents an informed view of the debate about this sophisticated and effective management tool. A detailed explanation of this complicated area¿thorough and offers excellent detail THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT Woodruffe`s book should be made compulsory reading for anyone involved in setting up or running this kind of assessment method INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT Recommend this thoughtful book to those interested in designing both the assessment center and the development center PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY

About the Author

Charles Woodruffe has worked as a management consultant for fifteen years. His company -- Human Assets -- is based in London and specializes in creating and implementing strategies to ensure that clients have the staff they need, now and in the future, to fulfil their business strategies. Charles and his colleagues deal with choosing and developing people as well as with their motivation and retention. They work for a range of organizations in the private sector as well as having clients in the public sector. Present and past clients include NatWest Bank, Nomura International, Unisys, HSBC, Canada Life, ESSO and the Bank of England. Charles brings together his degrees in business and in psychology to find effective, practical and lasting solutions to the issues his clients face in the HR arena. He has published widely with articles in Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, People Management and Competency as well as earlier publications in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His book on assessment centres is in its third edition. Charles can be contacted at: cw@humanassets.co.uk