The People and Organisations series provides texts for two stages in the standards: Core Personnel and Development; and the four generalist modules in Employee Resourcing, Reward, Relations and Development. It should be of interest to students taking the Core Personnel and Development - a new compulsory module for the IPD Standards, as well as any students on a wide range of other degree- and diploma-level business courses which require a solid understanding of people management and development. Students of employee resourcing need to understand how to determine organizations' demand for labour, find and select the right people, motivate them to achieve results, and handle their eventual release. Today, as full-time jobs for life disappear and flexible forms of working become ever more common, many traditional approaches require radical rethinking. This book considers all the key processes and puts them in context. The opening chapters examine global influences on British decision-making and the transformations that are taking place to the nature of work and jobs. Against this background, the main body of the text details best practice, and shows how effective organizations, both public and private, are able to: forecast the internal movement and external supply of labour; set in motion systematic recruitment campaigns - job analysis, person specifications, advertising and focused search techniques; select the right candidates through interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres; define, monitor and manage performance; design performance review systems and guidelines for face-to-face appraisal meetings; soften the impact of retirement and redundancy; and establish an ethical framework for justified dismissals. By starting from first principles and proceeding clearly and logically, the authors show that employee resourcing really can add value through people. Their book forms a suitable overview for all aspiring personnel professionals.