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Book Summary of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if they`ve already left
About the Author
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an expert on talent management. An economist and founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit think-tank, Hewlett is the author or co-author of 11 books. Much of her writing focuses on how best to manage high-performing women, minorities and multicultural workplaces.
Hewlett`s books include Creating a Life: What Every Woman Needs to Know About Having a Baby and a Career (2002) and Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (2007).
More recently, in Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (2009) Hewlett explored the wide range of tools and techniques available to employers struggling with both how to motivate and keep the loyalty of workers and managers; and boost their performance when business is down.
In her latest book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution (2011), written with management consultant Ripa Rashid, Hewlett examines the opportunities and challenges of hiring talented women in emerging markets.ISBN
9781422101025
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Pages : 299
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