Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning

by Thomas P. Bechet

Book Overview

Co-published with SHRM. Many organizations understand the benefits of a longer-term approach to staffing: reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814409385
• ISBN13: 9780814409381
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 8.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Good, but can be tedious

This book is packed with good information and it's one of the better books out there for helping someone understand the strategic staffing/workforce planning process. But, it's also tedious. I've been working my way through it for weeks now and I just can't seem to get through it (and, it's not even that large of a book!). The author could trim 25% of the book's heft and the result would be a better, more streamlined read. For example, the early chapters continually reiterate the same points and the author has a frustrating habit of describing a particular technique in detail only to tell you that it is the wrong way to do it at the end. Since I've been taking notes througout, this is particulary irritating because I have to unlearn what I've just read. While in can empathize with the author - the topic is far from a sexy one - the prose just lulls me to sleep. That's too bad, because the author has great advice and offers a lot of effective tools for performing, step-by-step, the strategic staffing process.