Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / Manuel London. 1. Employee Development and Job Creation: Trends, Problems, Opportunities / Jennifer Jarratt and Joseph F. Coates -- Pt. 1. Career Development Programs in Changing Organizations. 2. Organizational Growth and Employee Advancement: Tracking the Opportunities / Amy E. Hurley and Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld. 3. Career Development in Downsizing Organizations: A Self-Affirmation Analysis / Joel Brockner and Robert J. Lee. 4. Integrated Human Resource Development: Building Professional Competencies and Communities / Edward M. Mone and Melissa A. Bilger -- Pt. 2. New Patterns of Employment. 5. Salvaging Displaced Employees: Job Obsolescence, Retraining, and Redeployment / Harold G. Kaufman. 6. Managing Part-Time and Temporary Employment Relationships: Individual Needs and Organizational Demands / Daniel C. Feldman. 7. Creating an Internal Contingent Workforce: Managing the Resource Link / James W. Smither.

8. Developing Entrepreneurs: Skills for the "Wanna Be," "Gonna Be," and "Gotta Be Better" Employees / John H. Eggers -- Pt. 3. Economic Development and Revitalized Careers. 9. Supporting Career Transitions in a Time of Organizational Downsizing: The Michigan JOBS Program / Richard H. Price and Amiram D. Vinokur. 10. Creating Opportunities for Displaced Workers: Center for Commercial Competitiveness / Larry R. Last, Robert W. E. Peterson, Jack Rappaport and Carin A. Webb. 11. Engaging Displaced Employees in Retraining and Job Creation / Gerrit Wolf, Joseph M. Pufahl, Jeff Casey and Manuel London. 12. Developing Computerized Outplacement Counseling Programs: The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Base / Robert J. Vance and David V. Day. 13. Coping with Job Loss: The Collective Activism of Community-Based Job Creation and Retention Strategies / Carrie R. Leana and Daniel C. Feldman.

In this new volume of the Professional Practice Series - the first to be published by Jossey-Bass - Manuel London brings together a group of research and practice experts to show how such leading companies as AT&T have responded to demands for change with programs that enhance career opportunities for individuals and stimulate organizational growth.

In thirteen original chapters, London and his contributors detail how industrial and organizational psychologists, human resource professionals, and consultants have created innovative human resource development and training programs.

These programs go beyond the traditional emphasis on interest surveys, career tracks, and interview skills to train employees in the abilities that actually create new jobs within organizations - skills such as entrepreneurial aptitude, work flexibility, and a value-added orientation.

Employees, Careers, and Job Creation shows how to predict the career opportunities that will open up in an organization's future, assess employee skills, develop training goals, and overcome such barriers to success as employee resistance to learning. It also offers examples of how organization and community-based support programs can assist displaced workers in the event layoffs prove inevitable.