All leaders know people are critical to the success of organizations. Executives just don’t act that way sometimes. Why? Because they lack the facts. Too often they don’t know which workforce practices create the greatest value or which attributes of a workforce are critical to business strategy.
Supercharge Performance by Linking Employee-Driven Career Development with Business Goals
How do you make career development work for both the employee and the business? IBM® has done it by tightly linking employee-driven career development programs with corporate...
The third edition of Hotel Front Office Management continues to address the demands of the hotel industry in the new millennium. Educators who are preparing professionals for roles as front office managers and general managers in hotels are required to meet the challenges of operations, technology, training, empowerment, and...
Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for Windows Server
Administration Fundamentals. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft
Learning and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing company. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up
to produce a series of textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching...
Under mandate of Section 253, Study and Report on
Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology
Program Changes, of the Fiscal Year 2002 National
Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 107-107; U.S.
Congress, 2001), the U.S. Air Force contracted with
the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct the
present study. In response,...
This book shows what it is really like to apply Six Sigma in a range of functions within an organization and also to various types of organizations from the manufacturing sector to commerce and public service. It demonstrates how statistical thinking, coupled with the application of technical and operational knowledge of processes and focus...
Desktop computing proficiency is increasingly important in today’s business world. As a result, when screening, hiring, and training employees, employers can feel reassured by relying on the objectivity and consistency of technology certification to ensure the competence of their workforce. As an employee or job seeker, you can use...
It is the argument of this book that the contemporary Progressive movement in the United States, designed to replace the Liberalism whose demise was the object and accomplishment of the Reagan Revolution, is the product of a series of strategic experiments and decisions by activists in organized labor, in the environmental and human rights...
Desktop computing proficiency is increasingly important in today’s business world. As
a result, when screening, hiring, and training employees, employers can feel reassured
by relying on the objectivity and consistency of technology certification to ensure the
competence of their workforce. As an employee or job seeker, you...
The Pocket PC is the fastest growing platform for building handheld-based enterprise applications. Free from the memory limitations and underpowered processors of other handheld platforms, Pocket Access and eMbedded Visual Basic are providing the Pocket PC with the same one-two punch that Microsoft Access and Visual Basic gave Windows...
While many companies have trouble measuring the effectiveness of their learning and development efforts, the picture at Rockwell Collins is crystal clear. In the span of just three years, Rockwell went from having a traditional (and characteristically drab) training program to possessing a dynamic, strategically aligned initiative featuring...
