Workforce Coaching, Mentoring, and Counseling: Emerging Research and Opportunities

  • 4h 4m
  • Jayaranjani Sutha
  • IGI Global
  • 2019

In the highly competitive business environment of today, organizations are continually making attempts to stay one step ahead of their competitors by implementing various stratagems to improve their employees competencies and capabilities, as human resources are one of their most important assets. By investing in employees career development through training, coaching, mentoring, and counseling, the employee will undoubtedly become much more effective.

Workforce Coaching, Mentoring, and Counseling: Emerging Research and Opportunities elucidates, examines, and explores theories, practices, and research-based human resource development (HRD) strategies that have proven to be effective in enhancing various aspects relating to the performance of individual employees and the organization as a whole. Featuring research on topics such as adult learning, management science, and work-life balance, this book is ideally designed for practitioners, educators, managers, and researchers.

In this Book

  • Perspectives on Executive Coaching, Mentoring, and Counselling from Indian Mythologies
  • The Impact of Coaching Leadership on Employees' Positive Outcomes
  • Application of Equity Theory on Adult Learning
  • Understanding the Perception of Training Comprehensiveness
  • Work Environment Factors Affecting the Transfer of Training in Female Workers in the Apparel Sector of Sri Lanka
  • Work-Life Balance and Its Impact on Upward Career Mobility of Women Employees in the Banking Sector
  • The Effects of Perceived Role, Career, Goal, and Performance Uncertainty on Employee Performance