Career Development

In this book, you will learn how to limit the amount of information that confronts you while ensuring that you are exposed to issues critical to your job and personal well being. You will also learn techniques for managing your professional reading, as well as how to more effectively control the various forms of technology that you use on a daily basis. It is not difficult in this day and age to be deluged by too much information all at once. You only have to log on to the Internet, switch on the television, open your mailbox, walk into a magazine store or bookstore, or simply open your inbox. Never before have so many been confronted with so much.

An essential resource for building and maintaining an effective leadership team, this book gives HR professionals and I/O practitioners a greater understanding of executive dynamics, development tools, and proven techniques for managing executives. Written by top-notch practitioners, this volume explores executive performance and documents unique to executive-level human resource applicaitons. It shows how effective executive performance is qualitatively different from that of middle level managers. It also outlines today's state-of-the-art corporate human resource practices, along with lessons learned, and provides guidelines and principles related to effective executive practices.