Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives - Tapa blanda

More than ever before, HR practitioners must empirically demonstrate a clear link between their practices and firm performance. In, Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives, Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau show exactly how to choose, implement, and use metrics to improve decision-making, optimize organizational effectiveness, and maximize the value of HR investments. They provide powerful techniques for looking inside the HR "black box," implementing human capital metrics that track the effectiveness of talent policies and practices, demonstrating the logical connections to financial and line-of-business, and using HR metrics to drive more effective decision-making. Using their powerful "LAMP" methodology (Logic, Analytics, Measures, and Process), the authors demonstrate how to measure and analyze the value of every area of HR that impacts strategic value. Among the areas covered in depth are: * Hiring * Training * Leadership Development * Health and Wellness * Absenteeism * Retention * Employee Engagement Readers will master crucial foundational principles such as risk, return, and economies of scale and use them to evaluate investments objectively in everything from work/life programs to training. Also included are powerful ways to integrate HR with enterprise strategy and budgeting and for gaining commitment from business leaders outside HR.

A Logical, Proven Framework for Evaluating the Economic Value of HR Investments–Now Updated with Even More Powerful Tools 

• How to choose HR investments that deliver optimal strategic value–and eliminate those that don’t
• Extensive new coverage: measuring the hidden costs of layoffs, identifying better performance improvement interventions, and linking HR to stockholder value
• Best-practice techniques for assessing the value of talent management, health and wellness programs, employee engagement, and more 

Investing in People, Second Edition presents a breakthrough approach to HR measurement that systematically aligns HR investments with organizational goals, making HR a true strategic partner. Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau show exactly how to choose, implement, and use metrics to improve decision-making, optimize organizational effectiveness, and maximize the value of all HR expenditures. You’ll master crucial foundational principles such as risk, return, and economies of scale–and use them to objectively evaluate HR investments ranging from work/life programs to training. Cascio and Boudreau introduce powerful ways to integrate HR with enterprise strategy and budgeting and gain commitment from leaders outside HR. This edition’s new techniques include linking investments in training to stock prices, linking employee engagement to customer service and financial results, strategies for communicating the financial implications of investments in people to leaders outside of HR, and more.