New Book by Author John Sullivan Rethinks How Businesses Attract and Retain Employees
Low Turnover is Great Unless its Tiger Woods Who Quits Your Golf Team
New Book by Author John Sullivan Rethinks How Businesses Attract and Retain Employees
August 3, 2004 – Pacifica, CA – Forced rank employees. Fire the bottom five percent. Keep pay at risk. Prioritize the positions with the most importance to success. Greater rewards for top performers. Constructive confrontation. These and more are the tools advocated by recognized author and speaker Dr. John Sullivan in challenging todays businesses to develop a performance culture," a critical need in light of a potential worker shortage and turnover crisis that will accompany the return of a healthy economy.
Rethinking Strategic (2004, Published by CCH Incorporated) HR takes a forward-thinking look at building a smarter, more powerful HR system in any organization. Its aimed squarely at corporate human resources departments who underestimate the importance of their work to an organizations bottom line. As a projected workforce crisis looms, more and more departments are being asked to think and act strategically, but find themselves trapped in decades-old comfort zones and dont know where to begin.
Sullivans book addresses the issues of recruitment and retention that will increasingly become vital to U.S. companies as the nations workforce – experiencing a revitalized job market after years of cutbacks – prepares to seek greener employment pastures. Throwing out conventional approaches, Sullivan provides a hard-hitting guide to 21st Century strategy that will challenge HR professionals and their leaders to think in bold, new ways. A key element of the books essays revolves around treating top performers as the stars they are, rather than lumping them into the remaining average workforce for equalitys sake.
Low turnover is great," Sullivan explains, until you realize its Tiger Woods who has left your golf team." His volume explains how a performance culture will inherently attract and retain the relative few top talents who drive the majority of a business results.
In later chapters, he shows how HR can increase productivity and impact business objectives. Included are tools for not only building a performance culture, but developing and using metrics to measure an organizations success with employees. Provocative concluding chapters cover fact-based" decision-making, and the CEO questions from hell" that any HR expert should be able to answer.
This book is incredible – it should be required reading for every HR person in America," says William Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company magazine. There are fantastic ideas and even better hands-on tools . . . its so simple, it's laughable if people don't use this."
Rethinking Strategic HR is published by CCH Inc. and available at http://onlinestore.cch.com/default.asp?productID=2530 or via phone at 800-248-3248.
NOTE – For interviews with Dr. Sullivan or to request copies of the book, contact Elrond Lawrence at (831) 757-9100.
About the Author
A noted author, speaker and internationally-recognized visionary, Dr. John Sullivan helps channel organizations along a path towards world-class HR strategy development and execution. With expertise in recruitment, retention, employment branding and HR strategic planning, Dr. John Sullivan works to help HR deliver a competitive advantage to their firm. He does this through consulting, speaking, and writing books. With 30+ years of experience, Dr. John Sullivan has trained over 3,500 managers worldwide.
Dr. John Sullivan is currently Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. Prior to this, he served as Chief Talent Officer of Agilent Technologies. He has published five books.
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