Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development

✍ Scribed by Ron Elsdon

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In an environment where information, service, and knowledge are primary sources of value creation, workforce strength is central to securing prosperity. Written by practitioners for practitioners, Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development bridges the disciplines of organization and individual development, showing those charged with organizational progress why workforce strength is a key component of prosperity—and how it can be achieved.

This hands-on volume is organized in three sections that establish a foundation for workforce and career development, explore implementation in organizations, and examine the process's implications for working with individuals. Showcasing workforce and career development practices and systems for both represented and nonrepresented populations, it provides a framework, techniques, and examples that will guide approaches to building workforce strength. Applications of workforce and career development principles in a variety of sectors, such as healthcare and high technology, offer tangible examples of these principles in practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Building Workforce Strength......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
I Laying the Foundation......Page 28
1 What Does Workforce Strength Look Like and Why Does It Matter?......Page 30
2 Understanding the Needs of Different Individuals......Page 50
3 Linking to Educational Systems and Community Development......Page 70
II Implementing in the Organization......Page 88
4 Creating Value with Workforce Planning and Development......Page 90
5 Designing, Developing and Measuring Effective Career Development Processes and Systems......Page 108
6 Implementing and Carrying the Career Development Message......Page 132
III Working with Individuals in Organizations......Page 156
7 Acknowledging and Addressing Components of Career Fitness......Page 158
8 Tailoring Approaches to Address the Needs of Different Populations......Page 180
9 Example Case Studies: Healthcare and High-Technology......Page 196
10 Weaving the Threads Together......Page 220
Appendix A: Examples of Accrediting Bodies in the United States......Page 232
Appendix B: Prior Learning Assessment......Page 234
Appendix C: Development Plan Template and Sample Development Plan......Page 236
References......Page 240
Index......Page 248
About the Contributors......Page 256