Executive Talent: Developing and Keeping the Best People / Edition 2

by Peter Blau

Overview

This brilliant, up-to-date compendium argues that the most successful factor in company life is good people: individuals who are capable, competent, and savvy. Can corporate life attract such people? Ginzberg argues that despite demographic dislocations and the challenges to the work ethic, the answer to this question is a loud yes. In Executive Talent, Ginzberg and his colleagues show how to attract, train, and promote a superior work force, and how to take advantage of the different values in today's employees.

Over 25 percent of the population currently graduates from a senior college, and the number going for advanced degrees is climbing. Blacks and Hispanics together will soon account for one in every four new native-born job applicants. Women are now nearly as prevalent in the work force as men. Today's employees place more emphasis on family and leisure, and less on company loyalty. In the face of these critical changes, companies can no longer continue with the same human resource policies. Ginzberg offers new approaches to attract and retain superior talent.

In Executive Talent, Ginzberg brings together top academics and high level executives to explore the new world of work. They discuss coming trends and changes that will reshape the talent pool, how these shifts will impact the individual company, and ways to develop and implement a human resource strategy to meet the challenging work force of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560007821
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1995
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eli Ginzberg (1909-2002) was A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emeritus of Economics and director of the program on Conservation of Human resources at Columbia University. He is the author of more than eighty books (many published by Transaction)—all with a human resource policy impact.

Table of Contents

1: The New World of Work; 2: Human Resources in the Large Corporation; 3: Human Resources in Strategic Planning; 4: The Human Resources Function; 5: Restructuring for Productivity; 6: Managers Through Time; 7: Executives in Four Fields; 8: Corporate Leadership and the Public Weal; 9: Tomorrow’s Executives: Findings and Directions for Research