Description:
The classic guide to
designing and implementing an organizational career development program,
Up
Is Not the Only Way
(Davies-Black) shows the human resource practitioner how to forge
the vital link between organizational strategic planning and individual
career planning and development. Outlining a six-stage career development
process, author Beverly Kaye describes how to:
- Prepare a career development
program in line with an organization's needs
- Profile an employee's
technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills
- Target suitable career
goals within an expanded range of choices
- Help employees develop
a strategic action plan
- Provide effective skill
acquisition programs
- Develop evaluation
procedures that satisfy organizational needs
Valuable
for career development practitioners, trainers, human resource professionals,
career counselors, organizational development consultants, managers,
and executives, Up
Is Not the Only Way
provides the tools for initiating and promoting career development.
It explains how to sustain the momentum once training events are in
place, and it provides guidelines for integrating career development
programs into larger organizational priorities.
Availability:
Purchase
from Career Systems International in
hardcover for $29.95 or softcover for $22.95 (volume discounts offered).