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Harnessing people power for profit

Staffing has become the second-fastest-growing industry in the United States, largely by serving a lean business world in which companies are forced to downsize and merge in order to stay competitive. The work still has to be done, but now outsourcing to staffing services, especially for specialized business and technical skills, covers it.

This hands-on guide, from Entrepreneur magazine's highly successful StartUp series, shows the budding entrepreneur how to set up and operate a firm that can supply person power for a narrow or broad range of business needs. Among other topics, Start Your Own Staffing Service covers:

Different types of staffing services and the markets they serve

Researching the market to find a lucrative niche

Determining the best financing, location, and business plan

Recruiting and retaining top-quality staffing personnel

Attracting and keeping high-value clients

Whether it serves a huge market, such as office and clerical personnel, or a niche market like engineering or medical specialties, a staffing service can be a real revenue producer for a savvy businessperson who is knowledgeable about matching people's skills with the needs of businesses.

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Heneman and Judge�s Staffing Organizations, 6/e, is based on a comprehensive staffing model. Components of the model include staffing models and strategy, staffing support systems (legal compliance, planning, job analysis and rewards), core staffing systems (recruitment, selection, employment), and staffing system and retention management. Up-to-date research and business practices are the hallmarks of this market leading text. In-depth applications (cases and exercises) at the end of chapters provide students with skill-building and practice in key staffing activities and decision-making. A comprehensive running case involving a fictitious retailing organization provides even greater opportunity for in-depth analysis and skill building. Students also have the opportunity to address ethical issues at the end of each chapter...
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Many organizations understand the benefits of a longer-term approach to staffing: reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to staffing are often more effective on paper than in the workplace. Completely updated, this new edition of Strategic Staffing shows how to identify staffing needs and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative measures, and presents several effective, nontraditional approaches to their hiring needs. Featuring full case studies and dozens of examples, the book is both enlight­ening and practical. And to help readers create their own staffing plans, the online forms offer a trove of invaluable tools, including: customizable Excel spread sheets assessment and evaluation forms * calcula­tions and analyses * sample staffing plans, Powerpoint slide presentations, and much more. This book is a detailed, process-oriented guide that offers all the tools staffing professionals need..
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Call Center Staffing - The Complete, Practical Guide to Call Center Management takes the reader through the step-by-step process of forecasting workload, calculating staff, creating schedules, tracking daily performance, and managing by the numbers in a call center. Topics include:

Overview of call center staffing issues
Data gathering and analysis
Forecasting workload
Calculating staff requirements
Creating staff schedules
Skill-based routing and scheduling
Managing intr-day staffing and service
Calculating trunk/network requirements
Staffing for multi-media contacts
Automating workforce management
Call Center staffing alternatives
Workforce management roles and responsibilities

The book is designed to be a how-to guide to enable today's call center professional to master the art and science of call center staffing..
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This CD set shows entrepreneurs how to start one of three different types of staffing services. They will learn proven tips for finding clients and temporary workers, setting fees, and promoting their business.

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With the number of large congregations rising in the U.S., these congregations are increasingly dependent upon a greater number of staff to meet the needs of their diverse collection of members As leaders of multi-staff teams, senior clergy must play the dual role of both Moses and Aaron--both visionary and detail-oriented leader--in order for their large congregations to thrive. They need to be skilled with the tools of human resource management, while at the same time setting a vision and inspiring both staff and congregation

Unfortunately, until now there have been few resources for senior clergy who lead multi-staff teams. Working without adequate models and tools, senior clergy of large congregations often find themselves with passionate, dedicated staff members who are moving in different directions, competing over limited resources and attention. They end up with questions of how to evaluate the performance of staff and direct their efforts. They find themselves using time, attention, and resources to care for staff rather than using staff as a resource to care for the mission of the congregation.

Longtime Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle and Alban senior consultant Susan Beaumont have developed When Moses Meets Aaron to help clergy responsible for several-member staff teams navigate these unknown waters. They have taken the best of human resource practices and immersed them in a congregational context, providing a comprehensive manual for supervising, motivating, and coordinating staff teams. Rendle and Beaumont give both detailed and big picture guidance on hiring, job descriptions, supervision, performance evaluation, staff-team design, difficult staff behavior, and more. Their combined experience in consulting and training with staff and leaders of large congregations proves invaluable in this manual for today's leadership demands..
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Thad Greer, one of the nation's leading Executive Recruiters, reveals the career strategies and actions taken by virtually every candidate he has placed, proving that luck has little to do with career success..
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Strategic Staffing prepares all future managers to take a strategic and modern approach to the identification, attraction, selection, deployment, and retention of talent. Grounded in research but full of real-world examples, the book describes how organizations can develop a staffing strategy that reinforces business strategy, leverage staffing technology, and evaluate and improve their staffing systems.

 

Each chapter begins with a vignette of a real-world staffing issue and concludes with a description of how the company addressed the challenge and the relevant staffing concepts used to address the situation and overcome the challenge. Every chapter also includes a special feature called “Develop Your Skills,” which extends a topic and develops a personal skill related to staffing.

 

Readers apply the material and develop their staffing skills by working on a book-long case and completing assignments at the end of each chapter and by viewing and rating videos of candidates in structured and unstructured employment interviews. A humorous video showing how NOT to conduct an interview is also provided. The balance of research, best practices, and personal skills development ensures that readers will understand staffing and be able to implement effective staffing practices in their organization.

 

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In today’s business climate, accountability, transparency, and a high regard for laws, regulations, and ethical conduct is as much a part of how an organization manages its affairs as its primary mission and operations. Compliance Management for Public, Private, or Nonprofit Organizations is a complete, hands-on guide to implementing strategies and techniques for developing, managing, and improving the compliance function of any organization.

Author Michael G. Silverman is a corporate expert in strategic planning, program management, compliance, risk assessment, and policy development. In Compliance Management for Public, Private, or Nonprofit Organizations, he presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject by examining the traditional compliance issues associated with laws and regulations, as well as matters surrounding ethical behavior, organizational structure, technology, administration, and risk management.

From establishing compliance goals and managing education and training programs to operating a whistle-blowing program and addressing staffing and budgeting requirements, this practical resource covers everything compliance officers and risk and organizational managers need to know, including:

• Where and how to establish a compliance program within an organization
• The critical skills and expertise for maintaining an effective compliance program
• Pros and cons of making a compliance program a part-time function of an organization
• How to deliver bad news to senior management—and survive

Compliance Management for Public, Private, or Nonprofit Organizations includes a wealth of examples that illustrate the real-world applications of critical strategies and techniques for using the board of directors and senior management to promote compliance, reduce employee and management barriers to compliance, conduct in-depth risk assessment and compliance audits, and more.

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This digital document is a journal article from Decision Support Systems, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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