Workforce Coaching, Mentoring, and Counseling: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Download or read book Workforce Coaching, Mentoring, and Counseling: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Sutha, Jayaranjani and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the highly competitive business environment of today, organizations are continually making attempts to stay one step ahead of their competitors by implementing various stratagems to improve their employees’ competencies and capabilities, as human resources are one of their most important assets. By investing in employees’ career development through training, coaching, mentoring, and counseling, the employee will undoubtedly become much more effective. Workforce Coaching, Mentoring, and Counseling: Emerging Research and Opportunities elucidates, examines, and explores theories, practices, and research-based human resource development (HRD) strategies that have proven to be effective in enhancing various aspects relating to the performance of individual employees and the organization as a whole. Featuring research on topics such as adult learning, management science, and work-life balance, this book is ideally designed for practitioners, educators, managers, and researchers.