- Important vs. Critical Talent: What if the Beatles Had Been a Company?
- Mar 19, 2015
- This chapter from Talent Valuation: Accelerate Market Capitalization through Your Most Important Asset introduces the key concept in the book: that it is critical to rigorously identify specific areas of intellectual capital that drive the most value in your company, and refocus HR accordingly.
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- Introduction to Mastering Project Human Resource Management
- Dec 3, 2014
- Harjit Singh introduces his book, which highlights the importance of the people (human) aspect of project management and teaches you the techniques to excel in project human resource management.
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- Setting the Stage for Employee Benefits Design and Planning
- May 5, 2014
- This chapter addresses the concept of employee benefits, presents various categories of employee benefits, discusses the employee benefit environment, discusses the strategic considerations in designing employee benefit programs, explains the integrated system approach to plan employee benefits, and discusses the cost dimension of employee benefits.
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- Creating an Agile Culture through Trust and Ownership: An Interview with Pollyanna Pixton and Niel Nickolaisen
- Apr 10, 2014
- Phil Windley talks to Pollyanna Pixton and Niel Nickolaisen about their book, The Agile Culture: Leading through Trust and Ownership, why command and control management doesn't work with software teams, and why really trusting your team can make all the difference in your products, your work environment, and employee quality, satisfaction, and retention.
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- Welcome to the New Normal of Talent Management
- Sep 25, 2013
- Bill Castellano presents a comprehensive, innovative model of workforce engagement that responds to today’s new realities, and helps you anticipate tomorrow’s.
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- Challenges and Opportunities with Optimal HR Decision Making and How Advanced Analytics Can Help
- Sep 23, 2013
- James C. Sesil introduces his book, which explains how to dramatically improve human capital management decisions by applying advanced analytics and "Big Data" technologies and processes.
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- Building Your I.T. Career: Breaking In to I.T.
- May 17, 2013
- This chapter discusses methods you can use to break past the “need experience to get experience” barrier in the I.T. field.
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- Financial Analysis for HR Managers: Business Strategy, Financial Strategy, and HR Strategy
- Dec 31, 2012
- Many firms fail to achieve their maximum success because they do not utilize their HR departments optimally. Steven Director explains how HR can maximize your success in this introduction to his book.
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- A Crash Course in Commodities
- Dec 27, 2012
- Carley Garner discusses the establishment and evolution of commodities markets, including commodities exchanges, futures contracts, and commodity options.
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- Introduction to Compensation and Benefit Design: Applying Finance and Accounting Principles to Global Human Resource Management Systems
- Dec 19, 2012
- This introductory chapter examines how finance and accounting principles apply to compensation and benefit program design.
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- Rethinking New Employee Orientation
- Oct 2, 2012
- All organizations have some kind of employee orientation program, but few put much thought into it. Smart organizations are taking this process much more seriously to ensure that employees have a much deeper understanding of how the organization works and their role in it.
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- The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Know Your Employees
- Feb 8, 2011
- In this chapter, you learn why it's important to know your "employee audience," what demographics can reveal about employees, and how to learn more through focus groups and other qualitative research.
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- Making HR Measurement Strategic
- Dec 28, 2010
- In this introduction to their book, Investing in People, the authors describe the logical frameworks and measurement techniques to enhance decisions in several vital talent domains where decisions often lag behind scientific knowledge, and where mistakes frequently reduce strategic success.
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- Preface to Investing in People
- Dec 27, 2010
- In this preface to Investing in People, the authors explain the logic and technology necessary to look inside the "black box" between HR practices and financial/business performance.
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- Understand Why Employees Come and Why They Stay
- Jan 5, 2010
- How long do you think good, talented people stick around at places that treat them like draftees? Not long. David Russo explains why employees are your most valuable asset -- by far.
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- Tips for Recruitment and Retention in Asian Markets: An Interview with Christina Ooi
- Oct 20, 2009
- Whether you’re outsourcing development or building new business outposts, you need to learn the management techniques that really matter in these regions.
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- Increasing Organizational Capability through the People CMM
- Jul 9, 2009
- Learn how to increase your organizational capability throught the People CMM, which applies the principles of the process maturity framework to the domain of workforce practices.
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- Making HR Measurement Strategic
- May 1, 2008
- Learn how a decision-science approach to HR measurement leads to very different approaches from the traditional one.
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- Interviewing Job Applicants: Forget Traits; It's Behavior That Counts!
- Oct 12, 2007
- Traits aren’t necessarily good predictors of future job performance.
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- The Emotional Intelligence Approach to Coping with Toxic Managers and Subordinates
- Oct 12, 2007
- The more you know about what motivates people with different styles, the better you will be able to defend yourself and encourage them to cooperate with you and provide the work products you need to do your own job.
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