The ROI of Human Capital : Measuring the Economic Value of Employee Performance

With employees cost often exceeding 40 per cent of corporate expense, measuring the value of this human capital is essential. This reseource reveals how to do it and helps managers determine how to invest most effectively in human productive potential. We all know that people--not cash, buildings, or equipment--are the lifeblood of any business enterprise. Yet, astonishingly, there has never been a reliable way to quantify the contribution of human capital to corporate profit ... until now. This new book offers a rare blend of management expertise and quantitative metrics, showing executives and HR professionals how to gauge human costs and productivity at three critical levels: 1) Organizational (contributions to corporate goals); 2) Functional (impact on process improvement); 3) Human resources management (value added by five basic HR department activities). With today's employee costs often exceeding 40 percent of corporate expense, measuring the value of this human capital is essential. Here, at last, is a resource that reveals how to do it and that helps managers determine how to invest most effectively in human productive potential. As part of the Editor's Choice Series, SAS Publishing offers this book as a professional referen The lifeblood of any business enterprise is its people. Yet it wasn't until the publication of the groundbreaking book The ROI of Human Capital that there was a reliable way to quantify the contributions of people to corporate profit. Completely updated with new metrics, the book shows executives and HR professionals how to gauge human costs and productivity at three critical levels: organizational (contributions to corporate goals) • functional (impact on process improvement) • human resources management (value added by five basic HR department activities) The second edition contains new material on topics including corporate outsourcing, developments in behavioral science, and advances in trending and forecasting that have dramatically changed the way organizations measure the bottom line effect of employee performance. Utterly up-to-date, this is the go-to resource for organizations performing the essential task of measuring the value of their people. Human leverage How to measure human capital's contribution to enterprise goals How to measure human capital's impact on processes How to measure human resources' value added End-to-end human capital value reports Toward the next generation of human capital valuation Predictive analytics : leading indicators and intangible metrics How to value improvement initiative results Outsourcing : a new operating model? How to change the game Eleven principles, seven skills, and five metrics. Presents a method for measuring the contributions of staff to corporate profit. Offers a blend of management expertise and quantitative measurements, showing how to gauge human costs and productivity on three levels: organisational, functional, and human capital management The speed at which this book was delivered was amazing! The content of the book and the condiditon in which it was recieved, surpassed my expectations. Thank you How do you quantify the value of employees? Very carefully.