Staff Recruitment, Retention, and Training
Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-55766-708-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides practical strategies for managers and supervisors of human services agencies to use in assessing and successfully addressing workforce challenges. Each strategy is described with detailed instructions about how to assess the strategy, develop an intervention plan, and evaluate its effectiveness. Chapters also discuss how and why each strategy should be used. The book includes worksheets, forms, flow charts, and examples of how successful agencies have used these strategies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55766-708-3 (9781557667083)
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Content
An Overview of Recruitment, Retention, and Training Challenges; Finding and Hiring Employees; Recruiting Direct Support Professionals; What is this Job All About?: Using Realistic Job Previews in the Hiring Process; Selection Strategies; Socializing and Training Employees; Socialization, Support, Networking, and Professionalization; Linking Training and Performance Through Competency Based Training; Getting Out of the Classroom and On with Employee Training and Orientation Programs that Work; Fostering Commitment and Skill Through Mentoring Programs; Motivating and Supporting Employees; Staff Motivation and Recognition; From Grumbling to Getting Along: Effective Teams and Team Building; Supporting and Training Supervisors to Support a Diverse Workforce; Assessing Challenges and Designing Solutions; Organizational Change and Restructuring to Provide Consumer Driven Services; Assessing the Challenge and Evaluating the Outcomes of Interventions; Selecting Strategies for Change; The Bigger Picture; Recruitment, Retention, and Training Challenges in Community Human Services; Strategies for Policy Level Changes.