Human Capital and Global Business Strategy

Human Capital and Global Business Strategy
Author: Howard Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107656591

Human capital - the performance and the potential of people in an organisation - has become an increasingly urgent issue for business leaders. Dramatic demographic shifts, the globalisation of organisations, increasing business complexity, and generational differences are causing many organisations to place a more deliberate focus on human capital as a key element in strategic planning and execution. This book helps business leaders determine how to address human capital as part of their business strategy, to drive value and realise the potential of the organisation. Topics are presented clearly, allowing readers to quickly grasp and apply key concepts and ideas. The authors share both their academic research and practical experience from around the world, providing first-hand case studies and examples to help bring theoretical topics to life. With a strong practitioner focus, this book will provide business leaders and HR professionals with new insights into how to improve business performance through a unique, strategic approach to human capital.

Human Capital and Global Business Strategy

Human Capital and Global Business Strategy
Author: Howard Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107033152

Human capital - the performance and the potential of people in an organization - has become an increasingly important issue. With a strong practitioner focus, this book provides business leaders and HR professionals with new insights into how to improve business performance through a strategic approach to human capital.

Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Sustainability

Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Sustainability
Author: Atiku, Sulaiman Olusegun
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799845230

In the midst of climate change, responsible business practices and ecological modernization become essential tools for the promotion of sustainability. Due to the current level of demand for eco-friendly products and services, there is a need for green training and green human resource development to support green creativity and eco-innovation for sustainability. By incorporating green initiatives into human resource practices, organizations can maintain a positive impact on the environment. With a full understanding of sustainable business practices, positive impacts on the environmental management field become easier to produce. Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Sustainability is a pivotal reference source that explores the incorporation of green initiatives into all aspects of human resource management practices in a variety of industries. The book delivers a discussion on green human capital, collective green intelligence, and competencies that are essential to cope with the challenges in Industry 4.0. It also provides a basis for green recruitment and selection processes as a way of promoting pro-environmental behavior in the labor markets. While highlighting a broad range of topics including employee relations, knowledge management, and recruitment, this book is ideally designed for executives, entrepreneurs, human resource managers, academicians, researchers, and students. The book is also suitable for conventional and corporate universities looking to meet sustainable development goals as well as policymakers as it provides a guideline in designing and implementing green creativity and eco-innovation based on a wide range of global issues confronting sustainability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

High-Impact Human Capital Strategy

High-Impact Human Capital Strategy
Author: Jack Phillips
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814436072

Human Resources used to be about recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. Do these things well and your well-oiled machine will operate as planned. But in today’s turbulent and increasingly broadening economy, HR must go beyond its traditional focus if a company is to also expand and become as far-reaching as the times are trying to take it. While the core plan of recruit, prepare, motivate, and retain is still essential, High-Impact Human Capital Strategy examines 12 critical forces that must also be evaluated and maximized if a company is to continue its success, including: globalization, changes in workforce demographics, skill shortages and mismatches in labor markets, environmental matters, and more. Readers will learn how to design human capital programs that:• Incorporate each of the 12 critical forces into an effective overall plan• Connect with business measures• Achieve positive ROI• Ensure critical talent is in place• Boost engagement• Address work/life balance and other social issues• Reduce the need to outsourceComplete with case studies and step-by-step guidelines to help you move beyond the traditional focus of Human Resources, the indispensable plans of attack found in High-Impact Human Capital deliver measurable value in the face of ongoing challenges that are not going away.

The New Human Capital Strategy

The New Human Capital Strategy
Author: Bradley W. Hall
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814409596

It is often said that the only true source of sustained competitive advantage is people. But what does that mean and how can this be measured and managed? How many organizations know whether their human capital outperforms their competitors', or even whether it improves year-over-year? And what is the strategy for continually improving that performance? The New Human Capital Strategy is a roadmap for delivering measurable business results by systematically improving the performance of those in roles most important to customers and shareholders. Proposing a radical shift in the way organizations measure and manage their people, the book asserts that competitive advantage is a function of four areas of strength: Effective executive teams, leaders who deliver results, outperforming competitors in key positions and workforce performance. Using examples, research, and metrics, this essential guide provides readers with a system for ensuring that their people are more valuable this year than the last.

HR Strategy

HR Strategy
Author: Paul Kearns
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1856178153

With a huge proportion of organizations' expenditure related to their human resources and recent economic pressures making companies more lean that ever, it has never been more important for HR professionals to think and act strategically, and turn their people planning into profit. Focused on HR as a key tool for competitive advantage and sustainable success, "HR Strategy" demonstrates how to develop a winning human resource strategy working backwards from the results you want to see towards a workable, measurable plan for managing human capital. Tap into the needs of individual employees to unleash their maximum value with this concise, easy-to-read book that takes a practical, how-to approach, covering the wide-angle theory and the day-to-day practice. This new edition includes: updated case studies to demonstrate strategies work in different organizational contexts; thorough revision throughout to incorporate the latest theories, developments, tools and measures; increased focus on the questions you need to ask yourself about your organization's drivers and values in order to make real changes from the ground level up. Paul Kearns is a respected HR strategy consultant and recognised authority in measuring the financial impact of human capital strategies. He has taught HR-business strategy at MBA level for over 10 years and has a growing reputation in the UK and worldwide, as seen by his appearance in "HR Magazine's" Most Influential list of 2008. This new edition features updated case studies and thorough revision throughout to incorporate the latest theories, developments, tools and measures. It comes now with increased focus on the questions you need to ask yourself about your organization's drivers and values in order to make real changes from the ground level up. It is written by recognised leading consultant featured in "HR Magazine's" Most Influential list of 2008

Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education

Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education
Author: Allan R. Odden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136858261

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, performance management and evaluation, compensation, and career progression—can be reformed and restructured to boost teacher and principal effectiveness in ways that dramatically improve instructional practice and student learning. Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education guides educators towards putting more effective teachers, teacher leaders, and principals in the country’s schools—especially in poverty-impacted urban and rural communities—equipping those teacher and principals with instructional and leadership expertise, and rewarding and retaining those who are successful in attaining these objectives. Drawing from cases, experiences, and deliberations from a national task force, this book outlines a comprehensive framework for how to transform current human resource management practices into authentic, strategic talent management systems in order to improve student achievement.

Intellectual Capital Strategy Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations

Intellectual Capital Strategy Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations
Author: Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466636564

With the proper management, knowledge-based resources (human capital, relational capital, structural capital) aim to contribute to the creation of a competitive advantage not only for companies and institutions, but also for nations and economic regions. Intellectual Capital Strategy Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations brings together new perspectives on the knowledge-based view of strategy management as it considers the role of companies, organizations, and nations in the storage and measurement of their knowledge. This book is useful for industry leaders, practitioners, academics and scholars interested in emerging aspects of knowledge management and industry services.

Strategic Human Capital Management

Strategic Human Capital Management
Author: Jon Ingham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2007-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113636322X

* outlines the key attributes of a strategic approach to HCM and captures these within a scorecard (the HCM Value Matrix). * provides a process for managing human capital using the scorecard (the Strategic HCM Planning Cycle). * Includes case studiesfrom leading organizations and commentary from HR practitioners and academics.

World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-first Century

World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Wolfgang Lutz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198813422

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models. Presenting the full chapter text of the original edition alongside a concise selection of data, it summarizes past trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and education, and examines relevant theories to identify key determining factors. Deriving from a global survey of hundreds of experts and five expert meetings on as many continents, World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Overview emphasizes alternative trends in human capital, new ways of studying ageing and the quantification of alternative population, and education pathways in the context of global sustainable development. It is an ideal companion to the county specific online Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer.