The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy

by Phillip Brown, Anthony Hesketh, Philip Brown, et al.

Book Overview

This book lifts the veneer of 'employability', to expose serious problems in the way that future workers are trying to manage their employability in the competition for tough-entry jobs in the knowledge economy; in how companies understand their human resource strategies and endeavor to recruit the managers and leaders of the future; and in the government failure to come to terms with the realities of the knowledge-based economy. The demand for high-skilled,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199269548
• ISBN13: 9780199269549
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"