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The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, Dave Ulrich
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• 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 execution), and Execution (which holds senior executives and line managers accountable for workforce... more info

• A Wealth of Ideas
  If you're in HR and need to establish measures for the value you add, this book contains a huge array of options for measurement. As a resource for "brainstorming" it's unparalleled.
  Where the book breaks down is focus. As Jerry McAdams says, measure many things but reward a few. If HR were honestly to establish and maintain 100 measurements, how could even an airline pilot monitor that many gauges on the the dashboard?
  It would have been much better if the authors had said, "These are the... more info

• We All need it
  This book should be read by all HR Professionals.
  I wont waste your time in reading the review, just order it, and do not hesitate.
  I read it twice

• This book is rapidly becoming an industry best practice framework
  It has always been difficult to capture the impact of Human Resources on the company's performance. Unfortunately, most of the measures in use currently do not capture the HR contributions to a company's success. The authors argue that anew approach is necessary. One that captures the vital role that HR plays along with providing real measures that can show what contributions HR is making to the company's success.
  This new approach involves reversing the traditional bottom-up method with a more... more info

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