Built for People
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Built for People

Transform Your Employee Experience Using Product Management Principles

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eBook - ePub

Built for People

Transform Your Employee Experience Using Product Management Principles

About this book

Taking the best elements of a product-management approach and applying them to HR activity can transform the people function. This book shows you how. Written for all HR professionals and business leaders, Built for People explains how to improve workforce and business performance by developing people-centred ways of working, evidence-based decision making and a culture of continuous feedback and iteration. It explains everything from what this approach means for business professionals, what the benefits of it are and how to do it effectively. It covers how to proactively develop an employee experience which attracts, engages and retains the talent the business needs and supports them to operate at their full potential. There is also practical guidance on the importance of user research, sprint planning, vision development and how to encourage a continuous feedback loop in your team.This book includes the importance of testing and iteration and how to define metrics for success, as well as showing you how to handle organizational change, company culture clashes and how to build and improve overall business performance and employee experience at scale. Full of tools, case studies, exercises and advice from those who are already seeing the benefits of a product-management approach, this is essential reading for all business leaders needing to develop an agile, innovative and evidence-based approach to their people operations.

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Information

Publisher
Kogan Page
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781398608023
eBook ISBN
9781398608030

Table of contents

  1. List of figures and tables
  2. About the author
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. About this book
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. List of contributors
  9. 01 Why change how we execute? The need to think like a product manager
  10. 02 What is the product? The employee experience
  11. 03 The reconsidered responsibilities of people operations
  12. 04 Embedding agility with two maxims of product management
  13. 05 User research and evidence-based decision-making
  14. 06 Execute like a product squad
  15. 07 Iteration of people practices and processes
  16. 08 Standing out in the marketplace of culture
  17. 09 Hiring and building at scale
  18. 10 Metrics for success
  19. 11 Prioritizing people
  20. 12 Closing thoughts on the future
  21. Index