Working to your strengths. Issue 4 (8th June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Human resource management international digest. Volume 23:Issue 4(2015)
• Page Start: 21
• Page End: 23
• Publication Date: 2015-06-08
• Subjects: Personnel management -- Periodicals; 658.3124
• DOI: 10.1108/HRMID-05-2015-0065
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-0734

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</title> <p> – Sets out ways in which a pharmaceutical company embedded a strengths-based approach to the assessment and development of field-based staff during a period of structural and cultural change. Provides an overview of how strengths-based methods were implemented and embedded. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</title> <p> – Describes how collaboration with a people-management consultancy introduced strengths through recruitment and development to the company. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</title> <p> – Relates the positive perception of the assessment and development program by candidates and assessors. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Practical implications</title> <p> – Provides advice for how other organizations could introduce strengths-based solutions into similar culture change, team and personal-development projects. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</title> <p> – Points out that the pharmaceutical company – Boehringer Ingelheim – is one of the first UK-based organizations to take a strengths-based approach to aid culture change.</p> </sec> </abstract>