The Most Important Asset: Valuing Human Capital
Autor Robert Greeneen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2017
The Most Important Asset is a story about new graduates entering the human resources field, encountering and dealing with workforce management challenges and issues and developing their own professional competence through experience. Principles are presented and alternative solutions to problems are explored, providing the reader with a roadmap for analyzing situations and making decisions as to how to act. Placing the characters in different types of organizations provides insights into how different contexts call for different strategies. Alternative strategies for staffing an organization, developing its people, defining, measuring and rewarding performance are used to illustrate how what is done should be compatible with the mission, culture, organizational strategy, and internal and external realities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138306493
ISBN-10: 1138306495
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 28 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Tables, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138306495
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 28 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Tables, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
1 Preparing for the real world
New graduates prepare themselves for their transition into the business world.
2 Entering the real world
The characters find employment in different types of organizations.
3 Making sense of the real world
The differences between their organizations cause the characters to struggle with how differences impact the effectiveness of workforce management strategies.
4 Assessing organizational context
The impact of the characteristics of the different contexts on policies and programs are assessed and ways to accommodate differences are explored.
5 Facing a down economy
Changing economic conditions impact organizations differently and ways to operate effectively under the new conditions are sought.
6 Evaluating alternative HR strategies
The different organizations attempt to find strategies that enable them to cope effectively with environmental realities.
7 Learning from others
The characters attend a professional association conference and attempt to find answers for their own organizations to pressing issues.
8 Expanding horizons
Annette begins facing global workforce management issues and attempts to find ways to deal with issues raised by operating with a culturally diverse workforce.
9 You win some, you lose some
Don struggles with convincing the senior management team at the utility that changes are needed, meeting with limited success.
10 Considering new career frontiers
Rob begins a transition into the academic world and Don continues to be frustrated in selling what he believes to be the right path.
11 Life in the (not so?) real world
Rob finds his world to have transformed as he attempts to find how the findings of research can be reconciled with the practices common in organizations.
12 Stepping into new roles
Annette and Don are approached about openings in different organizations and decide to make career changes into roles involving management responsibility.
13 New challenges in new roles
Annette and Don begin to recognize that the contrasts between managing and doing work as a specialist are more pronounced than they imagined.
14 Learning the value of applied research
Rob continues finding ways of benefitting practice with research that is relevant to organizations.
15 Recognizing that HR is everyone’s job
Annette and Don apply the principles of effective workforce management learned in school to managing and ask Rob to do a seminar on lessons from academia.
16 The five-year reunion
The three attend a reunion at their university and explore the impact of different career directions with classmates.
17 Want to trade jobs?
Annette and Don realize that it is time for them to switch jobs since their strengths can better be capitalized on by doing so.
18 Educating students and practitioners
Annette and Don encourage Rob and new partner Kathy to create a seminar on effective workforce management suited for both students and practitioners.
19 The "doing HR better" dialogue
The seminar focuses on a dialogue between a wide variety of participants, resulting in a recognition that there is no one best way; what works is what fits.
20 Transformation at the not-for-profit
Annette begins an assessment of outsourcing activities that are not a core competence of the organization.
21 Opportunity knocks
Don makes a change and joins a large private sector multinational organization that has many of the things in place that were lacking in his employer.
22 Work–life balance becomes a focus
Annette discovers that work-life balance is a major concern for her staff and explores alternative policies and programs to address the issues.
23 Staffing the multinational
Don brings Kathy in to develop a research unit to inform workforce management strategy, policy and programs.
24 Let’s buy something
The multinational explores a merger with a major competitor, and Don launches a campaign for workforce planning to avoid common problems with mergers.
25 Friends and colleagues join the multinational
Annette and Rob are recruited by the multinational, bringing the foursome together within the same organization.
26 The merger materializes
The HR team works to develop policies and programs that fit the merged organization and explores intellectual capital and property as a source of value.
27 Improving HR service levels and productivity
An HR Service Center is created that will enable employees to be serviced better and the HR function to focus on becoming more efficient.
28 You can look too good
The multinational’s reputation results in a takeover by a venture capital firm, and the HR team decides to exit and create a consulting firm.
29 Reconciling research and practice
The new consulting firm focuses on ensuring their practice is based on sound evidence and explores how to align research and practice.
30 The ten-year reunion
The classmates attend their ten-year reunion and reflect on where they have been and where they plan to go in their careers.
31 Let’s be strategic
The debate about what "strategic" means leads the team to examine the perspective they adopt when recommending policies and programs.
32 Motivating and rewarding sales personnel
The consulting firm advises a client on how it motivates and rewards its sales staff, utilizing its focus on taking a strategic view.
33 Defining core capabilities
The consulting firm examines those capabilities that are core to its business strategy and decides to focus on analytics and the associated technology.
34 Evaluating executive compensation strategy
The consulting firm assists a client with developing an executive compensation philosophy and programs that fit the client’s business strategy.
35 Formulating a global workforce strategy
The consulting firm partners internationally and explores issues related to managing a global workforce, including rewards and leadership.
36 Focusing the professional practice
Recognizing that being all things to all organizations is not an effective consulting strategy, the firm attempts to align its practice with its competence.
37 Compensation: can it be a satisfier?
The consultants examine the role that compensation can play and realize that its impact is dependent on how well it is managed and how well compensation strategy fits the organization and the workforce.
38 Reflections on careers
Don, Annette and Rob reflect on their careers in the public sector, the not-for-profit sector, the private sector and academia.
39 The twentieth reunion
The attendees discuss their different career paths and their satisfaction with what they had accomplished in their professional lives.
New graduates prepare themselves for their transition into the business world.
2 Entering the real world
The characters find employment in different types of organizations.
3 Making sense of the real world
The differences between their organizations cause the characters to struggle with how differences impact the effectiveness of workforce management strategies.
4 Assessing organizational context
The impact of the characteristics of the different contexts on policies and programs are assessed and ways to accommodate differences are explored.
5 Facing a down economy
Changing economic conditions impact organizations differently and ways to operate effectively under the new conditions are sought.
6 Evaluating alternative HR strategies
The different organizations attempt to find strategies that enable them to cope effectively with environmental realities.
7 Learning from others
The characters attend a professional association conference and attempt to find answers for their own organizations to pressing issues.
8 Expanding horizons
Annette begins facing global workforce management issues and attempts to find ways to deal with issues raised by operating with a culturally diverse workforce.
9 You win some, you lose some
Don struggles with convincing the senior management team at the utility that changes are needed, meeting with limited success.
10 Considering new career frontiers
Rob begins a transition into the academic world and Don continues to be frustrated in selling what he believes to be the right path.
11 Life in the (not so?) real world
Rob finds his world to have transformed as he attempts to find how the findings of research can be reconciled with the practices common in organizations.
12 Stepping into new roles
Annette and Don are approached about openings in different organizations and decide to make career changes into roles involving management responsibility.
13 New challenges in new roles
Annette and Don begin to recognize that the contrasts between managing and doing work as a specialist are more pronounced than they imagined.
14 Learning the value of applied research
Rob continues finding ways of benefitting practice with research that is relevant to organizations.
15 Recognizing that HR is everyone’s job
Annette and Don apply the principles of effective workforce management learned in school to managing and ask Rob to do a seminar on lessons from academia.
16 The five-year reunion
The three attend a reunion at their university and explore the impact of different career directions with classmates.
17 Want to trade jobs?
Annette and Don realize that it is time for them to switch jobs since their strengths can better be capitalized on by doing so.
18 Educating students and practitioners
Annette and Don encourage Rob and new partner Kathy to create a seminar on effective workforce management suited for both students and practitioners.
19 The "doing HR better" dialogue
The seminar focuses on a dialogue between a wide variety of participants, resulting in a recognition that there is no one best way; what works is what fits.
20 Transformation at the not-for-profit
Annette begins an assessment of outsourcing activities that are not a core competence of the organization.
21 Opportunity knocks
Don makes a change and joins a large private sector multinational organization that has many of the things in place that were lacking in his employer.
22 Work–life balance becomes a focus
Annette discovers that work-life balance is a major concern for her staff and explores alternative policies and programs to address the issues.
23 Staffing the multinational
Don brings Kathy in to develop a research unit to inform workforce management strategy, policy and programs.
24 Let’s buy something
The multinational explores a merger with a major competitor, and Don launches a campaign for workforce planning to avoid common problems with mergers.
25 Friends and colleagues join the multinational
Annette and Rob are recruited by the multinational, bringing the foursome together within the same organization.
26 The merger materializes
The HR team works to develop policies and programs that fit the merged organization and explores intellectual capital and property as a source of value.
27 Improving HR service levels and productivity
An HR Service Center is created that will enable employees to be serviced better and the HR function to focus on becoming more efficient.
28 You can look too good
The multinational’s reputation results in a takeover by a venture capital firm, and the HR team decides to exit and create a consulting firm.
29 Reconciling research and practice
The new consulting firm focuses on ensuring their practice is based on sound evidence and explores how to align research and practice.
30 The ten-year reunion
The classmates attend their ten-year reunion and reflect on where they have been and where they plan to go in their careers.
31 Let’s be strategic
The debate about what "strategic" means leads the team to examine the perspective they adopt when recommending policies and programs.
32 Motivating and rewarding sales personnel
The consulting firm advises a client on how it motivates and rewards its sales staff, utilizing its focus on taking a strategic view.
33 Defining core capabilities
The consulting firm examines those capabilities that are core to its business strategy and decides to focus on analytics and the associated technology.
34 Evaluating executive compensation strategy
The consulting firm assists a client with developing an executive compensation philosophy and programs that fit the client’s business strategy.
35 Formulating a global workforce strategy
The consulting firm partners internationally and explores issues related to managing a global workforce, including rewards and leadership.
36 Focusing the professional practice
Recognizing that being all things to all organizations is not an effective consulting strategy, the firm attempts to align its practice with its competence.
37 Compensation: can it be a satisfier?
The consultants examine the role that compensation can play and realize that its impact is dependent on how well it is managed and how well compensation strategy fits the organization and the workforce.
38 Reflections on careers
Don, Annette and Rob reflect on their careers in the public sector, the not-for-profit sector, the private sector and academia.
39 The twentieth reunion
The attendees discuss their different career paths and their satisfaction with what they had accomplished in their professional lives.
Recenzii
'A welcome approach to assisting practitioners and managers in the application of human capital theories in the real-world workplace. The story telling approach allows the reader to visualize familiar challenges and situations and alternative approaches to decision making. This book is a welcome asset for anyone involved in human capital planning and development.' — Peter Ronza, CCP, SPHR, President, Pontifex Consulting Group
'Provides a useful comprehensive guide to managing HR-related workforce issues in multiple situations.' — Robert J. Butler, CCP, SPHR, RJ Butler Associates Inc., Consulting Principal
'A very engaging tale of three budding professionals coming to terms with the application of relative well known concepts to an ever changing Societies.' — John S Maxwell, Chairman & CEO of iHRME Inc. and Principal Consultant of Capita-Global FZE
'Bob Greene has had a full (continuing) career as an HR consultant, practitioner, scholar and professor. He is respected globally for each of those roles. This book is remarkable for how he weaves difficult ideas in effortless prose by telling a story about a group of practitioners coming to grips with the real world implementation of ideas more commonly found in textbooks. Eminently readable, thoughtful and, believe it or not, entertaining.' — William Seithel, Seithel Human Resources Consulting, Ltd
'Provides a useful comprehensive guide to managing HR-related workforce issues in multiple situations.' — Robert J. Butler, CCP, SPHR, RJ Butler Associates Inc., Consulting Principal
'A very engaging tale of three budding professionals coming to terms with the application of relative well known concepts to an ever changing Societies.' — John S Maxwell, Chairman & CEO of iHRME Inc. and Principal Consultant of Capita-Global FZE
'Bob Greene has had a full (continuing) career as an HR consultant, practitioner, scholar and professor. He is respected globally for each of those roles. This book is remarkable for how he weaves difficult ideas in effortless prose by telling a story about a group of practitioners coming to grips with the real world implementation of ideas more commonly found in textbooks. Eminently readable, thoughtful and, believe it or not, entertaining.' — William Seithel, Seithel Human Resources Consulting, Ltd
Descriere
The book provides examples of how important effective HRM can be in facilitating organizational success and demonstrates that without its workforce all of an organization’s other assets are inert and useless. These messages are communicated using real life scenarios, to make the situations realistic and to engage the reader in contemplating the lessons inherent in the experiences of the characters. The case examples occur in different contexts and illustrate how strategies work differently when they used in different environments, even within the same organization. It presents challenges and issues related to workforce management and then explores alternative strategies for dealing with them