On Staffing: Advice and Perspectives from HR Leaders - Hardcover

Advice and Perspectives from HR Leaders

"On Staffing will become the bible for staffing professionals. The essays cover from the beginning (finding) to the end (retaining) of staffing procedures. The timely, realistic, practical, and enduring essays will define the standard for the staffing process. This book will serve as a resource guide for staffing professionals who seek best practices and line managers who realize that staffing is the key to their success. The editors have done a masterful job selecting thoughtful writers who have both good ideas and experience implementing the ideas. They have also ensured that each essay offers practical advice."
––Dave Ulrich
Professor of Business, University of Michigan
author, Why the Bottom Line Isn’t!

"On Staffing is an absolutely essential resource for anyone with recruiting, development, or retention responsibilities. It should be no more than an arm’s length away from every HR professional and in every manager’s office."
––Robert Pike
College Relations Director
Associate Director, Global Talent Supply
The Procter & Gamble Company

With essays from staffing experts covering these subjects and more...

• Building a global employer brand
• Leadership and recruiting
• Human resources outsourcing
• The generational shift
• Effective cross-cultural communication
• Technology and Internet recruiting
• Using the media as a recruiting tool
• Reversing the brain drain
• Low-cost/no-cost recruiting
• Replenishing the workforce
• Diversity in staffing
• Recruiting on campus and from the military
• Special recruiting events
• Staffing overseas operations
• Recruiting for creative enterprises
• Human resources and security
• Analyzing human resources investments
• Employee retention strategies
• Future recruiting trends

Economic and demographic realities–from corporate cost cutting to the aging of the workforce–present serious challenges to today’s human resources professionals. On Staffing addresses those challenges by compiling concise, intelligent essays from today’s HR thought leaders. Insightful, thought provoking, and full of innovative ideas, this practical compendium offers the knowledge and expertise HR specialists need to lead their companies to the forefront of hiring practice.

The fifty short, informative articles included in On Staffing cover every aspect of the human capital cycle, from acquisition and development to management and retention. All are written by staffing specialists from leading organizations that have been recognized for their leadership in the specific areas of staffing and human capital management.

As HR leaders know, successful staffing is about much more than just hiring qualified people. It’s about hiring the right qualified people–and keeping them. To help you do that, On Staffing covers the new and innovative business initiatives managers from leading companies are using to assess the potential of people and place them in positions in which they can maximize that potential. It analyzes the practices that work, offers strategies for dealing with rapidly changing business and hiring environments, and helps HR leaders prepare for the changes and challenges to come.

On Staffing offers a comprehensive critical analysis of every aspect of the staffing process, because hiring isn’t just an important part of business–it is business.