Read Now The Employee Value Curve: The unifying theory of Human Resources helping companies and their people succeed together DOC
The indispensable "How To" guide for meaningful management and career advancement.Let's face it, when companies say their people are their greatest asset it's normally just a figure of speech; there's no line item for "Our People" on the company's balance sheet. In practice, most business owners and executives view HR not as a driver of shareholder value, but as a cost center devoted mainly to increasing their employees' happiness through the systematic dissemination of fluffy nonsense. For their part, most HR departments are so over-worked trying to keep up with the ever-increasing administrative demands of the job they don't have time to pee, let alone think strategically about how the HR department might generate more long term value for the company! Meanwhile, employees yearn silently for more autonomy, more respect, more job security, and, yes, more money, but feel trapped between unappreciative bosses, ever-encroaching technology and the latest hackneyed initiative to make them care a little more about their customers and/or their job. But what if it turned out (spoiler alert!) that people really were a company's greatest asset? And what if instead of thinking like psychotherapists the HR team thought like engineers intent on optimizing company performance the way Mercedes optimizes the performance of its Grand Prix winning engines? What if employees believed that adding value for the company was the pathway to their own career advancement? What if managers and executives believed that career advancement for employees was the pathway to increasing company value? In other words, what if it turned out shareholders, managers and employees all wanted exactly the same thing? The Employee Value Curve is a theoretical model that aims to shift the HR paradigm from "fluffy thinking" to value creation; directly linking employee value to company value, and career advancement for employees to increased returns for shareholders. As such, it is an indispensable guide for managers and business owners seeking to increase returns, for employees seeking advancement, and for busy HR professionals caught in the middle. In short, it is the unifying theory of Human Resources.
