1st Edition

Strategic Human Capital Management

By Jon Ingham Copyright 2007
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

Strategic human capital management (HCM) is not just a measurement focused approach to human resource management (HRM). It is certainly not a decision science in which people can be managed as a result of quantitative analysis and financial valuation. In fact, it is probably more of an art than a science and is a way of leading people to unlock great business performance. Strategic HCM focuses all... Read more
Part 1: Accounting for People; People management strategy dynamics; Best people management practices; Intangible capability through people; Creating value in people management; Managing and measuring human capital; Part 2: HCM strategy development; HCM measurement; HCM benchmarking; HCM implementation; HCM reporting; HCM roles and technology

Biography

Ingham, Jon

That people’s capacity to unlock the performance of organizations is far from a simplistic and causal model is hardly new. A book offering a new way of explaining how such complexity can be managed and harnessed for the good of organizations certainly is. This is a book to address HR’s continuing inability to think outside the box of how people influence performance. Read, reflect and act.

Dr. Anthony Hesketh
Director
Centre for Performance-Led HR
Lancaster University Management School

This book, whilst acknowledging the importance of measurement, rightly focuses attention on what HCM approaches deliver increased business performance. ...For HR professionals it will give confidence that they do have a unique and critical contribution to make which they are being expected to step up to.

Malcolm Hurrell
Vice-President Human Resources UK
AstraZeneca plc