High potential : how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work /

"In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go? High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce. Updated to r...

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Main Authors: MacRae, Ian (Psychologist) (Author)
Group Author: Furnham, Adrian.; Reed, Martin (CEO of Thomas International UK)
Published: Bloomsbury Business, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
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Summary: "In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go? High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce. Updated to reflect more recent research in the area, the book presents an accessible guide to clearly understanding and defining potential, and how to manage high-potential employees and develop their career. New case studies show how businesses have used the concepts outlined in the book to nurture future talent in the workplace and gain a real competitive business advantage" -- From the publisher.
Item Description: Revised edition of the author's High potential, 2014.
Carrier Form: xiii, 342 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-327) and index.
ISBN: 9781472953490 (hardback) :
1472953495 (hardback)
Index Number: HF5381
CLC: F243.2
F241.1
Call Number: F241.1/M174/2nd ed.
Contents: Potential -- What is potential -- Potential -- The style and character of potential -- Intelligence: capacity for learning and growth -- Intelligence at work -- Overview of personality -- High potential personality traits and leadership -- Emerging trends in personality testing -- Experience: the most brutal of instructors -- The performance delusion -- How to gain experience -- Workplace culture and values -- Motivators and attidues -- The dark side and derailment -- The toxic triangle and derailment prevention -- The dark side traits and characteristics -- Assessment: techniques and applications -- Assessment: methods to learn about other people -- Methods for assessming people at work -- Selection: choosing the right people -- Training -- Development systems -- Developing and coaching high potential -- OT 23) : retention: keeping the best and the brightest -- References.