Product Description

In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm’s survival. Yet in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized.

The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resource practices hinder employees’ ability to contribute to strategic goals. To maximize the power of their workforce, organizations must meet three challenges: view their workforce in terms of contribution rather than cost; replace benchmarking metrics with measures that differentiate levels of strategic impact; and make line managers and HR professionals jointly responsible for executing workforce initiatives.

Building on the proven model outlined in their bestselling book The HR Scorecard, Mark Huselid, Brian Becker, and coauthor Richard Beatty show how to create a Workforce Scorecard that identifies and measures the behaviors, competencies, mind-set, and culture required for workforce success and reveals how each dimension impacts the bottom line.

Practical and timely, The Workforce Scorecard offers crucial lessons for leveraging human capital to achieve strategic success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238259 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 278 pages

The Financial Times, March 28, 2005
"The Workforce Scorecard can be recommended on the grounds that a bit of fiber in your diet is healthy."

About the Author

Mark A. Huselid is Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.

Brian E. Becker is the Chairman of the Department of Organization and Human Resources at SUNY-Buffalo. Becker and Huselid are coauthors of The HR Scorecard (HBS Press, 2001).

Richard W. Beatty is a professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University

Customer Reviews

Creating the line of sight between strategy and action
Out of everything I read in 2005, this had the most profound impact on me in terms of getting ideas into reality. The authors have nailed the central problem facing so many organisations. The 'What' and 'How' don't align. A great strategy, good people, but poor results. The Workforce Scorecard pinpoints why this happens and provides a really simple and clear solution. It's not easy to implement, but it's certainly clear! Although it might seem like a book aimed at the HR community, it should be ready by senior managers/leaders who want to turn their organisations into star performers.

Viagra for the HR profession
This is a book for people in HR who want to make a real difference. The contents are a call to action at the sharp end of business. Why do we wait to be asked to contribute or give advice? In the Workforce scorecard the authors help HR people direct their efforts to making profit, making successes from thier business. The ideas about A player, A positions and the core to implementation, differentiation of the HR service to the workforce, is clear and backed by rigerous research. For those that want metrics they are here in bucket loads, for those that want a directional agenda for high performance HR, then its also here. Don't get me wrong implementation is not easy , but the contents of this book show what should, what could be done, and how to do it. Excellent pragmatic HR thinking, Ulrich has a rival.