Employees, Careers, and Job Creation

"Continuous monitoring of promotion opportunities is necessary to help high-potential employees, and they need to be placed in areas where they will be helped by organizational growth."

"The basis of employee resistance to change is threatened self-integrity; therefore it is best to plan and implement change in ways that minimize that threat."

"Realignments and relocations are likely to affect individuals' sense of identity and may heighten their sense of control."

"A sure-fire recipe for employee paralysis is for a previously paternalistic organization to shift the responsibility for career development to its workforce without providing a supportive climate."

"The proper design and integration of human performance systems practices, along with their successful implementation within an organization, are necessary to achieve change initiatives and strategic goals."

"The retraining and redeployment or "inplacement" of employed technical professionals as an alternative to termination appears to be accepted by a small but growing number of firms."

"Fewer than a quarter of the part-time nurses in our study received any medical insurance from their own hospitals!"

"In the service sector, the ability to develop high-quality, high-involvement workforces may be seriously constrained by increasing reliance on lower-quality, less involved contingent employees."

"Successful entrepreneurs are able to identify, acknowledge, manage, and transcend critical transition points and key events in the growth of their organization."

"Established entrepreneurs want to learn from other entrepreneurs who have shown by their success that what they say really works."