Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in schools—from recruitment, to selection/placement, induction, professional development, performa…
Investments set the standardas a graduate (MBA) text intended primarily for courses in investment analysis.The guiding principle has been to present the material in a framework that isorganized by a central core of consistent fundamental principles and will introducestudents to major issues currently of concern to all investors. In an effort to link theory to practice, the authorsmake their app…
Business has long struggled with the notion of "human capital," but do companies really know the value of their people? All too frequently, companies lay off thousands of workers to boost share price while, at the same time, their annual reports promise that "people are our greatest asset!" Now, for the first time, human capital experts Brian Friedman, James Hatch, and David M. Walker show how …
Follow this path shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. You'll learn the prerequisites of an effective workplace, forge unbreakable bonds between employees and customers with the book's 34 Routes to Superior Perform…
Mayo (human capital management, Middlesex U.) exhorts companies to consider their workers as assets to be cultivated, protected, and used to their fullest extent for the benefit of the business. Acknowledgments Preface 1 A Great Gap to be Filled 1 2 People Drive Value 18 3 Measuring Human Capital 40 4 The Worth of People as Assets 71 5 Capability and Potential 88 6 Maximi…
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 …
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…
This strategic HR text is organized into two sections. The first section, Chapters 1-7, examines the context of strategic HR and develops a framework and conceptual model for the practice of strategic HR. The second section, Chapters 8-14, examines the actual practice and implementation of strategic HR through a discussion of strategic issues that need to be addressed while developing specific …