The Human Resource Professional: Tactics and Strategies for Career Success

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This book addresses the very special tactics, strategies and modes of behaviour the human resource management function demands of those who want to succeed in a field that faces a work environment ruled by rapidly-changing technology, increased domestic and global competition, and an ever-changing work force. Not a book you merely read, it is a handbook that you will use at every step in your career. Paul Kaponya takes the reader on the unique human resources career tack, with a thorough, no-nonsense look at your success gradient as a human resource professional - the personal action steps, methods, and performance propellants that enhance the achievement every human resource professional wants. This is a practical career advancement guide offering new ideas, tactics, and strategies for handling developing changes; for overcoming managerial inertia; for making choices that enhance your career; for concentrating your personal efforts on new activities that will strengthen employer-employee relationships; for improving your organization's competitive position domestically and globally; for integrating your human resources activity with the total infrastructure; for helping you to face and handle the To-Get-Along-Go-Along syndrome; and for addressing opportunities for upgrading your personal performance. This practical career guide is for everyone from the seasoned human resource veterans who wish to check the status of their careers to the college student interested in the career aspect of this challenging field.

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"A first of its kind, Kaponya's career-oriented work is of great potential value for HR professionals at all levels....Kaponya runs an experienced, analytical eye over the HR career track....It's so loaded with practical ideas you don't have to read it in chronological order....As an added bonus, you are offered what in my opinion is one of the very best guidelines for appraising yourself and your function and for choosing the right company, job, and boss."-Ralph D. Trindl Former President Personnel-Industrial Relations Association of Wisconsin
"Excellent food for thought! An invaluable tool to advance your career and to develop the human resources in your enterprise!"-James M. Bretl Assistant Director, Career Services Center Marquette University
"HR professionals, both current and aspiring, should take to heart Mr. Kaponya's insights on the need to integrate human resource management with the overall business plan....Kaponya provides excellent tips on choosing the right job and the right boss. All HR professionals should take the time for introspection about their own careers, not only for themselves, but to allow them to more effectively manage the people in their organization."-Kathleen J. Burke Executive Vice President Security Pacific Corporation
"The author takes an aggressive and accurate look at what today's HR pro is all about!...[Kaponya] describes a tactical plan for integrating HR into the business plans of the most difficult and challenging organizations."-Jim Rockett 1991 President of PIRA--The Association of Human Resource Professionals of Southern California

Author Bio

PAUL G. KAPONYA, currently a human resource management consultant, has served as Vice President for Industrial and Public Relations for ITT Cannon Electric Company and General Brewing Corporation. He is the author of How to Survive Your First 90 Days at a New Company and has contributed articles to Harvard Business Review, Personnel Journal, and the California Management Review.