Play to Your Strengths: Managing Your Company's Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage Managing Your Company's Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage

by Nalbantian, Haig; Guzzo, Richard; Kieffer, Dave; Doherty, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780071422536
• ISBN10: 0071422536
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The breakthrough approach for aligning people with strategy for higher profitsOrganizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world,Play to Your Strengthsshows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business results that are measurable and profitable and that will create exceptional, enduring competitive advantages.This bottom-line-boosting guide gives managers, senior executives, and consultants the theory, tools, and processes they need to: Measure the effects of people on business results Determine the impact of strategies before making them Focus on the organization's most effective people strategies Deliver more money to the bottom line in a sustainable manner Create enduring, copy-proof competitive advantages

Author Biography

Haig R. Nalbandian, Richard A. Guzzo, Dave Kieffer, and Jay Doherty are cofounders and principals of Mercer HR Consulting and are the originators of the groundbreaking theory, tools, and processes in this book. Their work has garnered major media attention in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and the Financial Times and on CNN and CNBC.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Last Asset	p. 1
Principles
Insist on Systems Thinking	p. 17
Get the Right Facts	p. 33
Focus on Value	p. 57
Tools
Defining Human Capital Strategy	p. 73
Understanding Your Internal Labor Market	p. 81
Building Your Strategy	p. 103
Applications
The People Side of Strategic Shifts	p. 121
Making Acquisitions Work	p. 135
Better Linking to Customers	p. 149
The Implications of Business Risk	p. 163
Implications
The Investor's Perspective	p. 185
New Roles for Chief Executive Officers and Other Leaders	p. 201
Managing Your Personal Human Capital	p. 213
Into the Future: A Boardroom Conversation	p. 227
The Research Roots of the Six-Factor Framework	p. 235
The Intellectual Foundations of the New Science	p. 241
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 269
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