What increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life --bottom-line numbers, for instance--but the intangibles: our hope and fears, our belief and dreams. Only stories--scenarios--and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles. This book, giving you the tools fo…
Provides executives, managers, and human resource professionals with information on gauging human costs and improving productivity at the organizational, functional, and human capital management levels, thereby improving operations and corporate financial gains. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Table of Contents Chapter 1. Human Capital: The Profit Lever of a Knowledge Economy …
Global human resources consulting firm Watson Wyatt has conducted a large body of research on 25 human capital management practices showing, for the first time, how these practices can raise or lower the stock price of a company and by how much. This research, cited in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Forbes, is the foundation of the Human Capital Edge, and brings a new level of…
All leaders know people are critical to the success of organizations. Executives just don't act that way sometimes. Why? Because they lack the facts. Too often they don't know which workforce practices create the greatest value or which attributes of a workforce are critical to business strategy. Absent these facts executives look outside for cues on what to do through benchmarking and searc…