Publisher's Synopsis
This classic guide to designing and implementing an organizational career-development program demonstrates how to forge a vital link between organizational strategic planning and individual career planning & development. Outlining a six-stage career-development process, Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart describe how to prepare a career-development program in line with an organization's needs, how to profile an employee's technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills, how to target suitable career goals within an expanded range of choices, how to help employees develop a strategic action plan, how to provide effective skill-acquisition programs, and how to develop evaluation procedures that satisfy organizational needs.