Description
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.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Jayaranjani Sutha (Ed.)
Jayaranjani Sutha is working as a Senior Lecturer at Eastern University, Sri Lanka. She joined Uva Wellassa University as a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences in 2010 and promote as a Senior Lecturer in 2015. Prior to coming to Uva Wellassa University, she was a visiting lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka and worked as a Program Officer at World Vision Lanka, in Humanitarian Emergency Affair Division. Jayaranjani Sutha received her B.B.A. and M.B.A from the Eastern University of Sri Lanka with the specialization of Human Resource Development. At the same time, she received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Jayaranjani Sutha’s teaching interest including Human resource development, training and development, Strategic human resource management and adult learning. Her primary research interests are in the field of adult learning and training engagement and motivation for training participation. Jayaranjani Sutha is a member of the Editorial team of International Journal of Management Research- Macrothink Institute, USA and International Journal of Business and Management- Canadian Center of Science and Education.