
The Human Factor
How to Realize the Potential of your People and your Business
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The Human Factor
How to Realize the Potential of your People and your Business
About this book
Develop and leverage the human factor in your workforce and organization to boost individual and business performance. This book explores what the human factor is and how it influences the attraction, performance, retention, growth, productivity and wellbeing of employees. It also explains how focusing on it at all levels of the organization can boost both individual and business performance. It's a roadmap to success for all senior HR professionals, organizational development practitioners, managers and leaders. There is detailed discussion of sustainability, technology, analytics and organizational change, as well as a framework for building a case for change. The book also provides guidance on how to define organizational purpose, develop an effective organizational culture and how to design and execute a people strategy. There is also discussion of human motivation, the role it plays for individuals and leaders and the need for continual improvement of staff at all levels. Written by an expert author team with more than 50 years' experience between them, the book explains why the human factor is so important and how the changing context in which we live and work demands that HR professionals evolve to stay relevant.
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Table of contents
- About the authors
- Foreword by Harriet Green OBE
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why should you read this book?
- 1 Strategy and purpose
- 2 The case for change
- 3 The fluidity of culture
- 4 The importance of having a philosophy
- 5 The predisposition of a human being
- 6 Building commitment to change
- 7 The employee value proposition (EVP)
- 8 The relativity of success
- 9 Human experience, engagement and advocacy
- 10 The role of the leader
- 11 Executing the basics brilliantly
- 12 Listening, insights and feedback
- 13 Nurturing and developing
- 14 The role of technology in execution
- 15 The dynamics of teams
- 16 Our reflections
- Index