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Dr. Cook has more than 12 years of experience in design, development, implementation and evaluative research of assessment and development methodologies at all employee levels. Currently, he focuses on the development and global launch of executive level assessment and development capabilities as well as direct support of multinational implementations.
Dr. Dorsey is a Vice President at Personnel Decisions Research Institutes (PDRI). He has more than 15 years of experience in human capital consulting and applied research and development. He has conducted innovative work in the areas of performance measurement, career management, and training and development. Dr. Dorsey has produced numerous professional book chapters, articles, and presentations, and he is the recipient of multiple research awards.
Series Editor's Preface | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What are Career Paths? | p. 2 |
The Goal of This Book | p. 19 |
Overview | p. 21 |
A Conceptual Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths | p. 23 |
Career Path Attributes | p. 26 |
Career Path Patterns | p. 27 |
Outcomes | p. 29 |
The Bottom Line | p. 31 |
A Practical Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths | p. 33 |
Sources and Methods | p. 34 |
Past | p. 34 |
Present | p. 37 |
Future | p. 37 |
A Note about the Special Role of Interviews and Focus Groups | p. 38 |
How to Construct Career Paths | p. 39 |
Initial Steps | p. 39 |
Sequential List of Positions or Roles | p. 47 |
Qualifications | p. 53 |
Critical Developmental Experiences | p. 54 |
Competencies that are Accrued, Strengthened, or Required | p. 56 |
Career Success Factors | p. 60 |
Other Information | p. 63 |
Explicit Focus on Movement | p. 64 |
Promoting Alignment | p. 64 |
Assessment of Personal Attributes and Career Paths | p. 64 |
Implementation Tips | p. 65 |
The Bottom Line | p. 67 |
Integrating Career Paths into Talent Management Systems I: Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, Promotion, and Employee Development | p. 69 |
Connecting the Employee to the Organization | p. 69 |
Engaging the New Workforce | p. 72 |
Recruitment and Hiring | p. 73 |
Retention | p. 80 |
Promotion | p. 81 |
Development Planning and Execution | p. 83 |
The Bottom Line | p. 89 |
Integrating Career Paths into Talent Management Systems II: Strategic Workforce Planning, the Early Identification and Development of Executive Talent, and Succession Management | p. 91 |
Keeping an Eye on the Big Picture | p. 91 |
Strategic Workforce Planning | p. 92 |
Identifying and Developing Early-Career, High-Potential Leadership Talent | p. 95 |
Who Are Our High Potentials? | p. 95 |
How Can We Develop (and Promote) Them Faster? | p. 97 |
Managing Communications Regarding High Potentials | p. 98 |
Succession Management | p. 99 |
Evaluating Readiness for Promotion in the Context of Succession Management | p. 101 |
Methods for Evaluating Readiness | p. 102 |
Keeping Those "Not Yet Ready" on the Path(s) to Get There | p. 102 |
The Bottom Line | p. 105 |
Expanding Success Beyond the Individual Organization - Industry and Economic Development Perspectives | p. 107 |
Career Paths and the Industry and Economic Development Perspective | p. 109 |
Examples | p. 110 |
Differences between Industry Career Paths and Organizational Career Paths | p. 116 |
Career Paths and the Economic Development Perspective | p. 118 |
Examples | p. 120 |
Differences between Career Paths Designed for Economic Development Purposes and Organizational Career Paths | p. 124 |
Labor Market Analyses and Analyses of Cross-Occupation Requirements | p. 125 |
Labor Market Analyses | p. 125 |
Analyses of Requirements across Occupations | p. 126 |
The Bottom Line | p. 127 |
Looking to the Future | p. 129 |
Trend 1 - Demographic Trends | p. 130 |
Implications for Organizations | p. 131 |
Trend 2 - Technology | p. 132 |
Implications for Organizations | p. 134 |
Trend 3 - Globalization and Changing Organizational Structures | p. 134 |
Implications for Organizations | p. 135 |
Trend 4 - Defining Career Success | p. 136 |
Implications for Organizations | p. 136 |
The Bottom Line | p. 137 |
Career Path Resource List | p. 139 |
Notes | p. 143 |
References | p. 147 |
Name Index | p. 151 |
Subject Index | p. 153 |
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