High–Impact Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance–Based Hiring

Of all the decisions a manager or business owner must make, few will have a greater impact on the ultimate success or failure of that business than the decision of which employees to hire. Yet for many managers successful hiring lies in the mysterious province of plain dumb luck. High–Impact Hiring, however, can change all that. Here, work performance experts Rosse and Levin reach above and beyond quick fixes and fads to present those who hire with a rigorously tested, comprehensive framework for making sound hiring decisions based on a candidate′s capacity for high performance.

Spis treści:
Developing a High–Impact Approach to Hiring.
Knowing Who You Want to Hire and Why.
Breaking the Cycle of Crisis Hiring.
Attracting the Right Employees.
Doing the Right Thing: High Impact Hiring and the Law.
Developing a Comprehensive Hiring System.
Gathering Background Information.
Understanding and Using an Interview Strategy That Works.
Using Employment Tests Effectively.
Sampling Performance Through Job Tryouts, Work Samples, and Performance Testing.
The Dark Side of Performance: Identifying and Assessing Counterproductive Behavior.
Making High–Impact Hiring Decisions.
Afterword: Carrying Out Your Hiring Decisions

Nota biograficzna:
JOSEPH ROSSE is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters related to work performance, most specifically in the areas of employee selection, turnover, and drug testing. Rosse is also the co–author, with Robert Levin, of the monthly newspaper column ?On Management,? which addresses the human side of managing a business. ROBERT LEVIN is director of the Center for Human Function and Work, a University of Colorado at Boulder Research Park organization. He has authored and edited numerous articles and training materials o n performance in the workplace, performance development, and coaching, and has developed selection and training systems for both private and public sector organizations.

Okładka tylna:
Of all the decisions a manager or business owner must make, few will have a greater impact on the ultimate success or failure of that business than the decision of which employees to hire. Yet for many managers successful hiring lies in the mysterious province of plain dumb luck. High–Impact Hiring, however, can change all that. Here, work performance experts Rosse and Levin reach above and beyond quick fixes and fads to present those who hire with a rigorously tested, comprehensive framework for making sound hiring decisions based on a candidate′s capacity for high performance.