getAbstract, April 2004
getAbstract recommends this innovative take on human resources management to those staying abreast of changes in the field.

Choice, September 1, 2004
This comprehensive, applied handbook will be of significant interest to HR professionals, professors, and students alike.

HR Magazine, July 2004
HR helps organization get the best out of its workforce. This book presents a new method for managing that talent.

Soundview Executive Book Summary, August 2004
Explains how fitting employee talents to the work is more effective method. This comprehensive guidebook shows how to do it.

Training, August 2004
Thorough, honest, solid, and especially useful if YOU are the one called upon to explain all this to everybody else!

Book Description
This book describes a new model of performance management that matches employee talents to the work that must be done. By focusing on the critical competencies that distinguish star performers, HR professionals can transform the way they recruit, train, develop, and compensate top-performing employees.

From the Inside Flap
The traditional HR emphasis on job descriptions shortchanges both the employee and the organization, according to authors David Dubois and William Rothwell. The more effective method is to fit employee talents to the work that must be accomplished. Moving beyond industrial-age notions of work, COMPETENCY-BASED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT describes how to reinvent the HR department so that job competencies--rather than job descriptions--become the foundation for all HR efforts. By isolating and focusing on the key competencies that distinguish top performers, HR departments can unleash the power of exemplary performers across all job categories and see significant gains in productivity. This comprehensive handbook shows organizations how to make the transition from a work-based environment to a competency-based foundation. It includes planning tools, checklists, worksheets, and other practical aids that guide HR professionals as they transform their organizations into world-class performers.

About the Author
David D. Dubois, Ph.D., L.P.C., is an internationally respected consultant, author, speaker, life-career counselor, coach, and workshop leader. Specializing in competency-based human resource management practices, he has more than 30 years of consulting experience with organizations such as Federal Express, University of Michigan Medical Center, U.S. Postal Service, and Ford Motor Company. He is author of the best-selling book "Competency-Based Performance Improvement." William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, is president of Rothwell & Associates, Inc., and professor of human resource development at The Pennsylvania State University. In more than 20 years of professional experience, he has served as assistant vice president, management development director, and training director in various corporations and state government offices. His latest publications include "What CEOs Expect from Corporate Training" and "The Workplace Learner."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Moving beyond industrial-age notions of work, Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes how to reinvent the HR department so that job competencies - rather than job descriptions - become the foundation for all HR efforts. By isolating and focusing on the key competencies that distinguish top performers, HR departments can unleash the power of exemplary performers across all job categories and see significant gains in productivity.

This comprehensive handbook shows organizations how to make the transition from a work-based environment to a competency-based foundation. It includes planning tools, checklists, worksheets, and other practical aids that guide HR professionals as they transform their organizations into world-class performers.

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