Human Capital Management

In Humanizing Human Capital, Solange Charas, PhD, and Stela Lupushor reframe traditional HR practices into a future-forward strategy to optimize human capital. Charas and Lupushor shift decision-making about people from a gut sense to an evidence-based approach—a critical and much-needed departure from the cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best approach of most traditional HR programs today. 

For decades, CEOs have treated financial capital with rigor, discipline, and foresight. But when it comes to human capital—the engine of innovation, execution, and growth—most organizations still rely on legacy mindsets and guesswork. This blind spot is costing organizations their competitive edge. Written by Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer, executive strategist on human capital potentiality, Human Capital Investment Strategy reframes talent as an appreciating asset—one that can be analyzed, optimized, and deployed for maximum return.

This audiobook will provide you with hands-on practical ways to make the most of your human capital - either as a business owner or as a human resource manager. With accurate and up-to-date research in HR development, you will find this book helpful now and in the future of your business. This ultimate guide is a must-have for all HR managers and small business owners.

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded...

Grit & Grace presents a framework for achieving sustainable success through the integration of mental toughness (Grit) and emotional intelligence (Grace). The author, Jeff D. Standridge, Ed.D., argues that while grit alone—the relentless drive to succeed—has gained popularity through research by psychologists like Angela Duckworth, it's insufficient on its own. Similarly, grace without grit may maintain harmony but fails to drive meaningful progress. Key Concepts: Grit is defined as "the quality of being adaptable, with the ability to bounce back despite significant adversity, and to ...

Health care leadership today requires far more than clinical expertise. Senior nursing leaders must guide organizations through strategic planning, financial decision making, workforce management, quality improvement, and system-wide transformation. Conquer the Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certification Exam provides a comprehensive overview of the leadership principles and operational knowledge required for executive nursing roles in complex health systems. This guide explores the essential domains of executive nursing leadership, including strategic planning, financial stewardship, ...

Revolutionize Your HR: From Cost Center to Strategic Powerhouse Are you tired of HR being seen as just an admin function? This groundbreaking guide reimagines human resources through the lens of lean thinking, data-driven decision-making, and smart recruitment. Inside, you'll discover: ✅ How to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in HR ✅ Real-world examples of time and resource mismanagement ✅ Tools for building a lean, agile HR team ✅ Strategies for smarter hiring, onboarding, and retention ✅ Ways to leverage HR analytics for better business outcomes Whether you're an HR ...

The Executive Coaching Guide is packed with real coaching scenarios, tips and tricks to help HR professionals prepare for their coaching sessions, and tons of examples of effective and powerful coaching questions to illustrate the different stages of the coaching models during a professional coaching engagement, The Executive Coaching Guide will help HR managers enhance their coaching skills while developing an effective leadership style that is all their own.

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From grassroots to game plan, this book is the intersection of meaningful work, strong culture, and you. Our template called the THRIVE Model helps level-up your culture game (at work and home): helping today’s leaders succeed in tomorrow’s world. Unlike others books about workplace culture, MB builds on a heart-rooted foundation and utilizes an actionable model in order to grow. Taking culture action will change your world – for the better. Everyone wins when culture is strong. Conscious Culture helps leaders understand the importance of their most important asset – their people. ...

Ask anyone from the CEO to the shipping clerk about the organization’s most valuable asset, and you’ll get the same answer: “The people!” However, when it comes to the valuation of that organization, especially in terms of intangible assets, items like patents and trademarks wind up seeming to be more valuable. How can that be? Simple: They’re more quantifiable. In The NEW ROI: Return on Individuals, we delve into placing a more quantifiable value on the human capital asset – the most valuable asset in every organization. Additionally, we explore universal ways to promote even ...

The Simple Side of Human Resource Management Managing People Should Not Be Difficult, Boring or Scary Learn how to understand some of the more complex aspects of human resource management in a simpler context. If you are interested in understanding human resource management in greater detail, but you are just not in the mood for those stale academic written, hard to understand, boring textbooks, then this book is just for you. If you are simply looking for additional information and wish to supplement your existing knowledge on human resource management, well then this book is for you. For ...

The costs of labor are the highest expense for any organization. Because of that, the safety manager must spend the money on hiring the proper personnel and getting the most out of them each day. Soft Skills is a short but informative book highlighting the top five soft skills that every manager should be proficient. The author has over twenty years of safety management experience.

In Activate Human Capital, author Richard N. Morrison outlines the eight "People-Focused Principles of Management", and he explains them in terms of the values that motivate people to want to do the work given to them. And even more, he shows how these values will actually get employees to initiate their work because they will see how it contributes to the overall purpose of the business. Each principle is linked to a component of human fulfillment, and then through research, personal experience, and shared stories.

Some companies waste millions of dollars on team building, benchmarking, and other quality initiatives, while others save millions with the same initiatives. What makes the difference? Total Quality Management. If you want to know how today's most successful companies are getting the most from their quality initiatives, Total Quality Management: Managing Employees lays out the best practices for you to put to work—today.

The Power of KM provides a clear and concise introduction to Knowledge Management (KM). Brent Hunter explains the basics of Knowledge Management and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive, integrated, holistic and universal KM strategy that can be utilized in any organization. Hunter continues by explaining how Knowledge Management can be used to enrich and optimize our personal lives and at all levels of society. By the time you finish this book, you will learn that knowledge is power and that KM is extraordinarily valuable--and even has ability to change the world.

In this hysterical, astute book, HR industry expert Jim Dunn explores how humor can improve our professional environments and personal development by exploring questions like: How is humor a superpower for fostering collaborative environments? Are funny employees more effective? How can laughter turn crisis into connection and opportunity? How can instituting a culture of levity shape team dynamics and improve job satisfaction?

Simply put, there is no secret ingredient to building and running a successful business -- it's not rocket science. It takes common sense coupled with just a bit of people science and that's what The Human Quotient provides. Laid out in a very practical way, any reader can easily apply what they're learning. I guarantee when they do, it will make a measurable impact on a company's operations and finances. In my 20 plus years in business, I've determined, observed and complied from my work with clients what works -- consistently and successfully -- the key to which is improving "the human ...

What explains the growing class divide between the well-educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills - the right "human capital" - reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter.