Winning the Talent Wars : Managing in the Free Agent Marketplace

by TULGAN BRUCE

• ISBN13: 9780393019582
• ISBN10: 0393019586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Bold new ideas that help managers get the work done in the age of flexible staffing. Cradle-to-grave job security went out the window with 1980s corporate downsizing. A new generation has been hired fully prepared to fend for themselves in the free-agent marketplace. Woe be to their managers, as talented people come and go like professional baseball players. It's a war out there, a war for talent, and the managers and companies who win will become the most agile, productive competitors in the global marketplace. Management expert Bruce Tulgan, highly sought-after consultant on staffing issues and author of Managing Generation X, the classic study of Generation X in the workplace, offers his six principles of staffing in today's work environment. This book will change fundamentally the way managers think about building a team of talented workers.

Table of Contents

Prologue Welcome to the Talent Wars	9	(4)
The New Economy 101	13	(18)
Talent Is the Show	31	(23)
Staff the Work, Not the Jobs	54	(28)
Pay for Performance, and Nothing Else	82	(27)
Turn managers into Coaches	109	(20)
Train for the Mission, Not the Long Haul	129	(24)
Create as Many Career Paths as You Have People	153	(22)
Epilogue Lifetime Employment Is Dead, Long Live Lifetime Employment	175	(3)
Appendix 1 ``Employer of Choice'' Life Resources	178	(6)
Appendix 2 What about Unions?	184	(4)
Notes	188	(18)
Acknowledgments	206	(3)
Index	209