Book Description
3 indispensable books help HR professionals transform talent management, supercharge workforces, and optimize the entire HR function!
Three remarkable books offer indispensable, actionable solutions for finding, keeping, and engaging great employees, and optimizing all facets of the HR function. In Investing in People, renowned HR researchers Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau help HR practitioners choose, implement, and use metrics to improve decision-making, increase organizational effectiveness, and optimize the value of all HR investments. In 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent, top talent management consultant David Russo shows how to systematically build a workforce that’s truly engaged, committed, aligned with strategy, and capable of incredible performance. Russo reveals exactly what great companies do differently when it comes to managing their people – and shows how to apply those lessons in areas ranging from resourcing and compensation to leadership development and culture. In The Definitive Guide to HR Communication, Alison Davis and Jane Shannon offer dozens of practical tips for transforming employee-directed communications from boring to compelling. Organized around the employment cycle, this one-of-a-kind handbook gives HR pros an approach and specific techniques they can use every time they communicate – in any medium, whatever the goal!
From world-renowned leaders in human resources and employee communications, includingWayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau, David Russo, Alison Davis, and Jane Shannon
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Investing in People, Second Edition
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Making HR Measurement Strategic
- Chapter 2. Analytical Foundations of HR Measurement
- Chapter 3. The Hidden Costs of Absenteeism
- Chapter 4. The High Cost of Employee Separations
- Chapter 5. Employee Health, Wellness, and Welfare
- Chapter 6. Employee Attitudes and Engagement
- Chapter 7. Financial Effects of Work-Life Programs
- Chapter 8. Staffing Utility: The Concept and Its Measurement
- Chapter 9. The Economic Value of Job Performance
- Chapter 10. The Payoff from Enhanced Selection
- Chapter 11. Costs and Benefits of HR Development Programs
- Chapter 12. Talent Investment Analysis: Catalyst for Change
- Appendix A. The Taylor-Russell Tables
- Appendix B. The Naylor-Shine Table for Determining the Increase in Mean Criterion Score Obtained by Using a Selection Device
- Financial Times Press
- Index
- 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Praise for 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent
- Foreword: Great Teams, Great People, Great Leaders
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. Understand Why Employees Come and Why They Stay
- 2. Play “Win-Win” with Your Employees (and Allow Them to Be All They Can Be—for Self and Company)
- 3. Cultivate Leadership, Not Management, and Know the Difference!
- 4. Provide Ample and Appropriate Resources
- 5. Demand Contribution; Be Worthy of Receiving It
- 6. Applaud Effort; Reward Contribution
- 7. Cheerlead; The “Magic” of M&Ms
- 8. Build a Workplace on a Foundation of Respect
- 9. Cultivate the Risk-Trust Dynamic
- 10. Make Room for Fun in the Workplace (Nurture Lightheartedness/Levity)
- 11. Create Opportunities for Employee “Alignment” with Vision, Values, and Mission
- 12. Understand Human Capital
- 13. Treat Employees as “Volunteers”
- 14. Know Your Culture
- 15. Understand the Nature of Change and Prepare Your Employees to Embrace It
- 16. Cultivate Organizational Ethics; Demand and Reward Ethical Behavior
- 17. The Last and Overarching Rule: Tell the Truth! (and a Few Action Items to Grow On)
- Index
- The Definitive Guide to HR Communication