From the Inside Flap
We are currently at the beginning of a seismic shift in the workforce. No one has enough foresight to predict exactly how this shift will play out, nor can we fully understand precisely how organizations should better prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. But one thing is certain--few organizations are ready and many are just muddling through. In a knowledge economy, with the largest and fastest growing expense being people, this can be a costly mistake.
Executives, talent managers, and human resources professionals who want to compete and win will have to face these workforce changes with open eyes and innovative strategies. Drawing from experts across a wide spectrum of disciplines, Workforce Wake-Up Call is an all-in-one guide for business leaders seeking to move into the future of talent management and face these challenges head-on.
This collection of chapters from an all-star list of contributors provides leaders with a holistic picture of the changing workforce and how it will affect talent management. Even better, the book is packed with effective solutions from leading companies. A practical discussion of topics like human capital investment, the competition for scarce talent, using Customer Relationship Management as an employee management system, and the future of leadership development, make this book prescriptive as well as theoretically rigorous.
With the kind of insight you'll find nowhere else, from talent experts and business leaders known for trailblazing and innovation, Workforce Wake-Up Call brings talent management into the twenty-first century and shows managers how to confront and beat the challenges that lay ahead.
Workforce Wake-up Call will be edited by Robert Gandossy, Elissa Tucker, and Nidhi Verma of Hewitt Associates, LLC:
Robert Gandossy is Global Leader for Hewitt Associates' Talent and Organization Consulting. Bob has been a speaker for a number of groups including Harvard Business School, Human Resources Planning Society, The Wharton School, Tom Peters Group, Yale Law School, Yale's School of Organization and Management, World at Work, American Management Association, and The Conference Board. He has spoken to audiences all over the world including Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, New Delhi, Paris, London, and Brussels. Bob holds a bachelors degree from Harpur College and a Ph.D from Harvard University.
Elissa Tucker is a consultant in the Research Practice at Hewitt Associates and is a member of Hewitt's Insights and Innovation Team, a thought leadership group dedicated to cutting-edge research and ideas on people and business issues.?Elissa?is also an expert on workforce trends.
Nidhi Verma is a consultant on the Insights and Innovation Team at Hewitt Associates. In this position, she provides consulting and thought leadership in the area of talent management and strategic directions of the human resources function.
