Talent Flow: A Strategic Approach to Keeping Good Employees, Helping Them Grow and Letting Them Go

The economy may be ascending to new heights or in a downward spiral. But no matter what the state of the economy, managers must focus their attention on the flow of employees through their organizations and how those employees perform on the job. Written by Robert Levin and Joseph Rosse--the authors of the acclaimed book High-Impact Hiring--Talent Flow shows how to develop a strategic approach that will give any organization a competitive advantage by helping it increase performance, reduce counterproductive behavior, and improve retention of top-level performers. alent Flow offers managers clear-cut advice for keeping employees who consistently deliver high performance and directions for managing (and if necessary, terminating) those who deliver poor performance. Using the same winning formula that made High-Impact Hiring such a success, the authors take a scientifically researched approach to create this highly readable and practical resource. Throughout Talent Flow, Levin and Rosse show how to deal effectively with complex issues such as performance, satisfaction, and retention in ways that will ultimately benefit both the organization and the people within it."

About the Author :
Robert Levin and Joseph Rosse wrote High-Impact Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance-Based Hiring (Rosse and Levin, Jossey-Bass, 1997) and for six years authored and edited the monthly newspaper column On Management. Recently, they founded the Center for the Integrative Study of Work, an interdisciplinary work research center at the University of Colorado. Robert Levin is founder and managing director of the Center for Human Function & Work, a work performance research and consulting company that is located at the University of Colorado at Boulder Research Park. In addition to coauthoring High-Impact Hiring, he has written numerous articles and chapters on work performance issues for both business and academic audiences. Joseph Rosse is professor of management at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has conducted research and worked with companies for twenty years on the effects of dissatisfaction on work performance and employee turnover. Rosse has written over thirty articles and chapters in addition to coauthoring the book High-Impact Hiring.

Review :
"Talent is at the heart of today's businesses. The insights gained from reading this book will benefit every CEO." --R. C. Mercure Jr., CEO, CDM Optics, Inc. "Change is inevitable-to gain on your competition you must understand the flow of human talent and manage it properly. Levin and Rosse have captured the essence of this art for today's organizations in today's labor market." --George Heinrichs, president and CEO of SCC Communications Corp. "The key to business success is motivating and retaining your most valued resources-people. Talent Flow is an insightful guide to managing in the twenty-first century." --George Promis, director, Technology Alliances, IBM "Managers, entrepreneurs, and business school students will find this book very insightful. In a reader friendly manner, the book pulls together several divergent bodies of academic knowledge. More important, it offers a clear statement on how to manage employee retention issues." --Thomas W. Lee, professor of human resource management and organizational behavior, University of Washington School of Business