Career Development International: Volume 3 Issue 4

Business process outsourcing: a new test of management competence

Andrew Sheridan May

Discusses the need for effective business process outsourcing, and starts by identifying core and non‐core activities. Common tasks of outsourcing are identified and each task is…

Information systems careers: the role of assessment centers

Linda Ellis Johnson, Paula Wurth Potter

A major dilemma facing an organization today is the successful migration to new computing technologies. Inherent in this problem is how to develop or acquire information systems…

Beyond technical competence: caring to understand

James T. Scarnati

Discusses concern for others as one of the unwritten rules of leadership. Defines caring as a quality tool used by successful leaders, to meet the legitmate work related needs of…

Exploring career chaos: patterns of belief

Stephen Gibb

Presents a view of the field of career development as a chaotic subject. The concept of “chaos”, from chaos theory, is described and related to the study of career development. A…

Increasing the ROI on management education efforts

Clinton O. Longenecker, Jack L. Simonetti, David LaHote

Formal management education is a rapidly growing organizational strategy to enhance management development and performance. While many organizations worldwide count on management…

Changing schedules: a case for alternative work schedules

William M. Lankford

Corporations want productivity and efficiency, while the work force is asking for more time with the family. The ability of management to juggle productivity requirements with…

Effective employment screening practices

Doreena Engleman, Brian H. Kleiner

Since 1991, employers in the USA may be liable for the criminal actions of their employees even if those actions are not job‐related. As a result, costly law suits and settlements…

Diary of a Change Agent

Zoe Van Zwanenburg

Third Age Careers: : Meeting the Corporate Challenge

Caroline Tisdall

Beyond the CV ‐Securing a Lifetime of Work in the Global Market

Trevor Thornett