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Creating an HR Scorecard
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

A comprehensive HR Scorecard, though unique to each company, should cover four major themes: key human resource deliverables that will highlight HR's role in your firm's overall strategy, a High-Performance Work System, the alignment of that system with firm strategy, and the efficiency with which deliverables are generated. Guiding HR professionals through these steps, this chapter covers the essentials for constructing an HR Scorecard that ...

Clarifying and Measuring HR's Strategic Influence: Introduction to a Seven-Step Process
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

In order to achieve strategy alignment, managers must first understand how value is created in their firm, and then must develop a measurement system based on that value chain. This chapter offers a seven-step process to help integrate HR into a business-performance measurement system, emphasizing the importance of a strategically focused HR architecture as a prerequisite. The seven steps for implementing HR's strategic role range from clearly ...

The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy

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Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2005

How to increase the ROI of human "capital"
It is more important now than ever before to measure human performance accurately and consistently, especially given the rapidly increasing use of outsourcing which requires effective supervision of those to whom important tasks are entrusted. Although this book was written primarily for HR executives, I think it can also be of substantial interest and value to other senior-level executives as ...

Complete Boating Guide to the Connecticut River

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Embassy

Embassy Publishing/Resolution, 1990

A boater's Bible to the Conneticut River
I have paddled the entire Mass-Conn length of the river and the only book I brought with me was this one. I found it to be an invaluable tool. I am now using The Complete Guide in preperation for another lengthy trip on the Connecticut. This time we will kayak 175 miles from Moore Resivoir to Turner's Falls. This book is well researched and provides phone numbers, take outs, put ins, camping ...

The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance

23 reviews
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

How to determine the ROI of your organization's human capital
I recently re-read this book and have even higher regard for it now than I did I when I first read it soon after it was published in 2001. Becker and Huselid later co-authored The Workforce Scorecard with Richard W. Beatty. With rigor and eloquence, they examine three separate but related challenges: Perspective (with an emphasis on differentiation), Metrics (and their relationship to strategy ...

Differentiated Workforce: Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2009

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.

Guidelines for Implementing an HR Scorecard
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

What are the challenges involved in implementing a strategically focused HR architecture and HR Scorecard? The authors provide a seven-step model for planning and evaluating the change management activities associated with implementation efforts. From the early stages of deciding who should lead change in your organization, to the key final stages of ensuring that change will last, this chapter explains how to build the acceptance element of ...

Cost-Benefit Analyses for HR Interventions
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

The development of what the authors call cost-benefit analysis--used to calculate the return on investment (ROI) of specific HR programs and interventions--should derive from the firm's strategy and operational goals, complementing the development of the HR Scorecard. This chapter focuses on data collection and analytical methods that will help assess whether certain HR programs will pay off in the short and long run. Examples are provided, as ...

Competencies for HR Professionals
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

If HR professionals are going to take full advantage of the lessons in this book on implementing a strategic HR architecture, they will have to broaden their professional competencies to include what the authors call strategic performance management. This chapter examines the skills HR professionals need to forge a strategic partnership with line management, reviewing examples from companies that have successfully honed those competencies.

Measuring HR Alignment
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

Alignment, a word that seems to be on everyone's lips in the business world these days, requires that human resource and line managers develop of shared view of HR's role. This chapter introduces several different approaches to measuring your organization's alignment between the HR system that produces key HR deliverables and the requirements of the firm's strategy implementation system.

Shape Your Workforce for Strategic Success (HBR Article Collection)
Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2005

How to leave rivals scrambling? Craft a workforce that can carry out your strategy with skill, focus, and dedication. Start by recruiting the right people--those individuals who possess the qualities and capacities most essential to your company's success. Then grow their talent and loyalty by giving them clear direction, teaming them with smart colleagues, and publicly recognizing their contributions. When your stars start to shine, put them in ...

The Hr Scorecard **ISBN: 9781578511365**
Brian E./ Ulrich, David/ Huselid, Mark A. Becker

Perseus Distribution Services, 2001

"A Players" or "A Positions"? The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Mark A. Huselid, Richard W. Beatty, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2005

Companies simply can't afford to have "A players" in all positions. Rather, businesses need to adopt a portfolio approach to workforce management, systematically identifying their strategically important A positions, supporting B positions and surplus C positions, then focusing disproportionate resources on making sure A players hold A positions. This is not as obvious as it may seem, because the three types of positions do not reflect corporate ...

The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Hospitals
Richard Ulric Miller, Brian E. Becker, ...

Praeger Publishers, 1979

Shape Your Workforce for Strategic Success, 2nd Edition (HBR Article Collection)
Boris Groysberg, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2008

How to craft a workforce that can execute your strategy? First recruit potential stars--those with the talents most essential to your firm's success. Grow their skills through training and mentoring. And secure their loyalty by inviting them to express their individual personalities and work styles. When your stars start shining, put them in your "A positions"--the jobs most essential to execution of your strategy--and reward them handsomely. ...

HR as a Strategic Partner: The Measurement Challenge
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

A new economic paradigm has, in recent years, focused on human capital and intangible assets as the most important, though perhaps least understood, factors in determining business performance. Advocating a High Performance Work System to maximize the quality of human capital, and a move from individualistic (or "bottom-up") to systematic (or "top-down") thinking, The HR Scorecard builds on the Balanced Scorecard approach to develop a ...

The Principles of Good Measurement
Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2001

The performance-measurement system you use plays an important role in securing HR's credibility and determining its place in the firm. A sound measurement system improves HR's decision-making by focusing on aspects of the organization that create value, and provides a valid and systematic justification for the allocation of resources. This chapter focuses on thinking strategically about measurement, providing essential principles for developing ...

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