The human capital imperative : valuing your talent /
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Author / Creator: | COPPIN, ALAN. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
Imprint: | [Place of publication not identified] : Springer International, 2017. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11350207 |
ISBN: | 9783319491219 3319491210 3319491202 9783319491202 |
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF |
Notes: | References5 Organisation Structure and Design; Definition and Importance; Design; New Mode of Organisation Structure; Organisation Size; References; 6 Recruitment; Recruitment; CEO, Chief Recruiter; Person Specification Models; Improving Job Descriptions; Psychometric Testing; Myers-Briggs; The Big Five; CEO Turnover; References; 7 Learning and Development; Organisational Benefits; Alignment with Strategy; Trends in Learning and Development; Learning Technologies; Leadership Development; Talent Management; The Development of leaves Assessing the Impact of Learning and Development Activity. |
Summary: | "Alan Coppin is a rare individual. His experience and insight span private and public sectors, charities, and the Armed Forces. The vital importance of human capital is the thread which has bound all this together. His book is a rich gold mine of data, research, wisdom and anecdote."--Sir Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life, deputy chairman of Barclays, non-executive director of Deloitte and lead non-executive director at the Ministry of Defence In this new book Coppin and Marriott-Sims, leaders with extensive cross-sector experience, draw on discussions with leaders in the public and private sectors, as well as from charities, the military and trade unions to offer you the ideas and practical applications that have proved effective in ensuring human capital is properly valued and managed. Most business decisions are based on lag data - historical reporting of what happened last month, last quarter or last year. It's solid, real and comforting. Unfortunately, it's also not a very good indicator of what might happen next. The best lead data - information with genuine predictive power - comes from understanding your people and what they can deliver. All major organizations claim that people are their greatest asset and yet, at the first sign of problems, the first action they take is to fire people. Why, because employees are also an organisation's biggest liability in terms of cost - and their cost is much easier to quantify than their value. But, like any asset, human capital will only deliver its full value if it is properly understood, measured and managed. The authors offer you the tools you need to take the issue beyond the HR department and satisfy the number crunchers in the boardroom. With their help, you can make human capital part of the normal financial metrics essential to running a successful organisation. Isn't it time you understood and managed the metrics that can predict your organization's future rather than relying on those that simply report on its past? |
Other form: | Print version: 3319491202 9783319491202 |
Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-49121-9 |
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