The volume, titled ”Staff selection and training”, which has just been published by the University of Granada, is a work of Professors Francisco Díaz Bretones and Andrés Rodríguez Fernández that intends, according to the authors, “to fill the present gap, as there are not simple and didactic handbooks in Spanish about these processes; on the other hand, we have a personal and intellectual commitment to offering a different view of staff selection and training as the dominant position falls almost exclusively on the rationality and the logic of the management”.
The authors have set themselves, in this handbook of 218 pages and ten chapters, the following goals: “Providing a knowledge and tools catalogue to consider the complexity of selection and training processes in organizations. Creating a wide understanding framework about the facets of human behaviour involved in such processes; this is, the attitudes, values and moods developed in the organizations, trying to explain the reasons for such behaviours. Stimulating the development of proactive and flexible views and attitudes in relation to selection and training processes. Improving general and specific competences to deal with the problems arising in this field as a professional in a satisfactory way. Developing a catalogue of tools that qualify to take part in the organization in such processes in an enriching and effective way.”
Professors Díaz Bretones and Rodríguez Fernández maintain in this book that the main interest of a professional of selection and training must be aimed at the human behaviour in the context of organizations, how can we get to know it and understand it better, how can we help people to start and develop their work in a more mature, sensible and satisfactory way.
These professors of the University of Granada assert that “they have tried to offer at the end of the book some epistemological reflections, besides concrete recipes and it demands, without doubt, for your part, an effort of critical reflection, systematization of arguments and knowledge synthesis.”
Reference: Professor Francisco Díaz Bretones.
Dpt. Social Psychology and Methodology of Behaviour Sciences.
University of Granada.
Phone number: 958 249545.
E-mail. fdiazb@ugr.es
Professor Andrés Rodríguez Fernández
Dpt.: Social Psychology and Methodology of Behaviour Sciences.
University of Granada.
Phone number: 958 243748.
E-mail. andresro@platon.ugr.es
