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This text is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in cost accounting at both the basic and advanced levels. It provides complete, concise and clearly written discussions of topics commonly included in a basic course, with an in-depth treatment of selected topics more appropriate for a course in advanced cost accounting. Modular coverage of these topics enables the instructor to present a greater amount of core material in a limited time, while adapting the text to his or her own preferences for course content. By emphasizing the differing uses for cost accounting information, the text makes the student an intelligent provider, user, and interpreter of this information. This strategy is evident in each chapter, as basic concepts are presented and then illustrated with examples and a wide variety of end-of-chapter assignments.
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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 strategic staffing are often more effective on paper than in the workplace.
This essential book-and-CD-ROM package shows how to identify staffing needs and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative measures, and presents several effective, nontraditional approaches to strategic staffing. 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 CD-ROM is a trove of invaluable tools, including:
* PowerPoint(TM) slide presentations * Customizable Excel(TM) spreadsheets * Assessment and evaluation forms * Calculations and analyses * Sample staffing plans, and much more.
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Insightful!.......2004-06-10
Human resources strategist Thomas P. Bechet provides a comprehensive guide to planning your staffing. He includes a CD with PowerPoint slide presentations, adaptable Excel spreadsheets, and assessment and evaluation forms. The book has ample examples and case studies of how to set up staffing, and tons of charts, graphs and formulas. But, you cannot apply his models and practices without this detailed hands-on workbook of his scorecard strategy, where you enter relevant data in a matrix that provides staffing direction. Warning: if your basic assumptions are wrong or if your situation changes quickly, you could take a wrong turn, so proceed carefully. While this is not a fun read - in fact, it can seem convoluted - Bechet's intent is practicality, not recreation. This is a hardcore resource for hiring decision-makers. So we suggest that you pour yourself a stiff cup of coffee, grab a thick notepad and muscle up to the staffing task with serious, strategic intent.
A Practioner's Guide.......2003-05-19
Tom Bechet has set a new standard for workforce planning books. He walks the reader through his practical user guide to think about about workforce planning as solving a business issue.The result of following Tom's well articulated "strategic staffing" process will help enable the business to meet it's strategic goals by understanding the "people implications" as part of their strategic business planning process. Workforce planning becomes "helping the business to solve business talent issues"! The book systematically walks the reader from step one all the way through the strategic staffing process, and he even includes powerpoint slides to review with your organization and spreadsheets that will assist in capturing your organizational data! The book is a terrific toolkit for staffing/HR professionals.
Insightful!.......2003-05-06
Human resources strategist Thomas P. Bechet provides a comprehensive guide to planning your staffing. He includes a CD with PowerPoint slide presentations, adaptable Excel spreadsheets, and assessment and evaluation forms. The book has ample examples and case studies of how to set up staffing, and tons of charts, graphs and formulas. But, you cannot apply his models and practices without this detailed hands-on workbook of his scorecard strategy, where you enter relevant data in a matrix that provides staffing direction. Warning: if your basic assumptions are wrong or if your situation changes quickly, you could take a wrong turn, so proceed carefully. While this is not a fun read - in fact, it can seem convoluted - Bechet's intent is practicality, not recreation. This is a hardcore resource for hiring decision-makers. So we from getAbstract suggest that you pour yourself a stiff cup of coffee, grab a thick notepad and muscle up to the staffing task with serious, strategic intent.
Valuable Tool for Business--easy to use.......2002-08-07
As corporate leaders look into the future, developing strategic plans, human resources must be a vital component. Without people, most organizations would be unable to meet their objectives, pay their bills, and satisfy their owners. Many corporations have difficulty getting properly organized and filling positions with the right people even in present-day terms. Looking into the future, even a few months into the future, is beyond the scope of most human resource departments. They're too busy scrambling to address current problems.
There are three components necessary for solid strategic staffing-the planning for the company's future workforce needs. First, you need a CEO and senior leadership team that is future-focused. These key people must be good planners, with concern about all the resources they will need in the years ahead-including people. Second, you need human resource professionals who can business-speak, who can understand the strategic plans being drawn by those top executives. These professionals must be able to determine what kinds of people will be needed-when, where, and why. Third, you need a good tool to forecast workforce supply and demand, be flexible in response to changing plans, and be highly usable. "Strategic Staffing" is that tool.
Written by a human resource strategist with decades of experience under his belt, this book has it all-in writing and on an accompanying CD-ROM. Included in the easy-to-read pages are forms, examples, and diagnostics to help readers evaluate their own workforce strategies and preparedness. The CD-ROM includes templates, graphs, formulas, Excel spreadsheets, and even slide presentations to convey the vital message to others in the organization.
The book is organized into four sections: Setting the Context, Developing the Strategic Staffing Process, Implementing and Supporting Your Strategic Staffing Process, and Beyond Staffing Plans: Analyzing and Applying the Results. Three Appendices add more value, addressing frequently asked questions and providing guidance to using the extra material on the CD-ROM. A glossary and an index contribute to the usefulness of the volume.
The sixteen chapters of the book are well-defined, enabling the reader to work from the Table of Contents to move to sections where help might be found for specific problems. Readers will learn about how to make strategic staffing a part of the organization, how to define staffing levels, and how to make the whole thing work. Included are chapters about how to involve other mangers (buy-in is important) and how to use the web for staff acquisition over the long term. Solid costing information brings a cold sense of reality to the picture. The cost of not doing what this book advises can be considerably higher than following the author's helpful guidelines.
Bonus: The book's type size and design makes it easy to read and work with.
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Like product and service markets, employment markets go up and down, but they never stand still. For any staffing strategy to be effective, it must be responsive to changes both within and outside the organization. Consequently, such initiatives must be designed with the same forethought, care, and commitment that go into other business strategies.
Successful Talent Strategies provides a blueprint for talent planning in an economy where skillfully deployed human capital is the difference between unbridled success and struggling to stay afloat. Step by step, the book illustrates the process of creating a business-aligned talent system, with detailed strategies for:
* Aligning initiatives with department processes, corporate objectives, and market realities * Identifying necessary competencies and attributes * Establishing talent flow and talent engagement processes, including sourcing and retention methods, performance management, and reward systems * Measuring and improving talent strategy results, and more
Featuring many examples from companies of all types and sizes, Successful Talent Strategies can help any business find and keep top talent in any conditions.
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David Sears is a brilliant man........2004-09-17
After reading just the very first chapter, I knew that this author had talent in addressing the business skills of today's world. I was truly inspired by his ethical usage of business plannign and skills. His market-focused staffing theories were brilliant. A top read!
The Magic Connection: Talent and Profits.......2002-11-10
The lexicon birthed a new word not so long ago: talent. No, actually the word is not new, but the way the word is applied as taken on new meaning. "Talent" now describes the people who work for an organization, with a particular focus on the skills, knowledge, and capabilities they bring. Talent is more than just workers; it's the collective capacity of people to contribute to the achievement of results. The concept of talent, as the definition is evolving, links the application of competence to fulfillment of corporate strategy. While some may argue that the difference between "workers" and "talent" is merely semantic, others will assert that the engagement of human capability-from education, experience, expertise, and leadership-adds considerable value to viewing employees as mere human resources.
This concept of "talent" and its appropriate productive use is getting a lot of attention in various books and periodicals. Jim Collins in his book, "Good to Great," talks about having the right people---in the right seats---on the bus. Why? Having the most talented people to perform particular jobs is critical to an organization's success.
Most organizations don't have the right mix of people--talent---assigned to the right roles. And, to exacerbate the problem, they're burdened with too many people who, for various reasons, should no longer be employed by the company. The unavoidable consequence is that the organization is seriously inhibited in its drive to achieve its strategic objectives.
This potential-limiting condition can be overcome through effective talent management. This practice must be deeply imbedded in the corporate value system, touted by its leaders and enforced by its managers. Note that talent management is not a human resources issue; it's a leadership and management role. Human resource professionals have a part to play, but its not their game.
Sears begins his book with a vital section on the relationship between talent strategies and business strategies. They are inextricably linked; success at one strategy is interdependent with success in the other. It is obvious that attracting and engaging the right talent at the right time is essential.
In my work as a strategic business futurist concentrating on workforce and workplace trends, I have forecasted that the management of this linkage will influence the very survival of organizations. In our book, "Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People," we sounded a wake-up call for corporate leaders about the severe shortage of skilled labor coming in this decade. A major part of the solution---to avoid extinction---is talent management, and Sears teaches the process in his book. There is a clear and powerful congruence between anticipated challenges and recommended solutions.
Sears addresses how to build, deliver, and measure talent strategies in the second section of "Successful Talent Strategies." From his perspective as a consultant with significant experience in the human resource field, explains, with ample examples, just how talent management works. Charts and graphs illustrate the journey, with the message continually connected to corporate strategy. The message is that talent strategy is driven by corporate strategy. The acquisition and application of talent, inside and outside the organization, enables leaders to achieve desired results.
This insightful how-to book will take some concentration to read and "get." Not every leader nor experienced human resource professional will be able to fully immerse and gain the considerable value of this book. But that's what separates people who make things happen from those who wonder what happened. The convergence of trends will move us along at an increasingly rapid pace. If you want to be one of those who makes things happen, by understanding, developing, and applying cohesive strategies, read this book.
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Based on a study of more than 250 hospitals and health systems throughout the country, By the Numbers is an invaulable reference for anyone who wants comparative budgeting and operational data. This exclusive benchmarking report, updated in 2005, provides key data on marketing, public relations, advertising and strategic planing budgets, staffing levels, and organizational structures. It also includes in-depth information on call centers, website development, customer relationship management systems, and more. More than 50 graphics illustrate the data and break it down by bed size.
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Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the worlds most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: Susan Bishop, President & Chief Executive Officer, Bishop Partners The Psychology of Staffing: Finding Core Competencies Thomas H. Ogdon, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Ogdon Partnership Finding and Retaining the Right Talent; Therese Fauerbach, Chief Executive Officer, The Northridge Group The Staffing Business: A 24/7 Endeavor; Todd Jackowitz, Jackowitz & Company, Inc. Methods for Hiring Top Talent; Rex Kurzius, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Result Universal Staffing: Having Tribal Knowledge; Jacques Bouwens, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates Making Selections for Success; Merrill Banks, Chief Executive Officer, Lloyd Staffing Obtaining Strong Customers and Reducing Costs; Ralph A. Dise, Jr., President & Chief Executive Officer, Dise & Company The Human Capital Century; Laurie Kahn, President & Founder, Lgk Media Staffing Network The Key to Success in Media Staffing.
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A Strategic Model of Temporary Staffing (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)
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This book examines the relationship between competitive strategies and the use of temporary employees. An organization's choice of strategy (i.e. how it will compete against others in its industry) is predicted to impact its decision to use temporary workers. The study shows that firms differ in their competitive strategies and their respective use of temporary employment, which in turn impacts organizational performance. This study attempts to model the effects of strategy on the nature of jobs within the organization and the subsequent appropriateness of using temporary workers.
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Strategic Staffing
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 758 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Achieving appropriate staffing levels.(Careers)
Author: Max Messmer
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Aligning staffing with business strategy.: An article from: Human Resource Planning
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on June 1, 1993. The length of the article is 6441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: Organizational effectiveness depends on having the right people in the right jobs at the right times to meet rapidly changing organizational requirements. Accordingly, identifying future staffing needs is an important lever for executing business strategy. Where business needs are changing rapidly or are uncertain, traditional forecasting and planning is insufficient. The strategic staffing approach focuses on the business context, identifying staffing implications of business scenarios and identifying staffing drivers. Defining future staffing requires development of a skills matrix that fits future needs and matches future availability of talent with future demands. No longer a matter of mere forecasting needs based on historic trends, staffing in an era of change requires iterative analysis and judgments about future requirements in the context of business plans.
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Title: Aligning staffing with business strategy.
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This digital document is an article from Detroiter, published by Detroit Regional Chamber on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Benchmarks.(The Network)(Cynthia J. Pasky, president and CEO of Strategic Staffing Solutions Inc. will be honored with Vista Maria's 2004 Woman of History Award)(Walbridge Aldinger Co. is registered to the new ISO 9001:2000 standard)(Barton Malow Co. received four awards)
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Developing a strategic staffing plan.: An article from: The National Public Accountant
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From the supplier: The development of a strategic staffing plan in response to the need to increase personnel before it is necessary is a necessary step to successful management of a firm's growth. Strategic staffing involves analysis of the short- and long-term manpower needs of the firm. To assure the usefulness of the plan, a margin of error should be built into it. This refers to the hiring of temporary professionals that enable the work to progress without affecting regular employees' workloads.
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Title: Developing a strategic staffing plan.
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Texas Real Estate Principles and Practices
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Readable, accurate and complete, this basic introductory text introduces the beginner to the principles and practices of real estate. The concise format makes the text content easy for Instructors to cover in allotted course time. The text also covers all necessary requirements from the Texas Real Estate License Act. Examples are used to make the material most understandable and practice exams assist test preparation.
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Real Estate Information.......2000-02-10
This is a great book about real estate practices in Texas. I have been sellng real estate for several years and recently picked up a copy of this book. It is very informative and easy to read. I strongly recommend it for all new Realtors or anybody interested in this field. I am going to make it available to all of my employees as a reference guide. Very well done.
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Texas Real Estate Principles (Trial Practice Library)
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Selected by 50 notable astronomers from the major sub-fields of the discipline, the articles assembled in this special AAS Centennial collection are accompanied by commentary that provides the scientific-historical context essential to comprehending each article's original impact. Many commentators were contemporaries of the original authors and provide first-person accounts of papers published in the journals—and the earliest reactions they evoked. Arranged in chronological order of publication, these classic papers include works by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George E. Hale, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Hubble, A.A. Michelson, Henry Norris Russell, Arthur Achuster, Harlow Shapley, and others. Together the articles and commentaries provide a historical window into twentieth-century astronomy and how the results were achieved.
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