High Performers: How the Best Companies Find and Keep Them

ISBN-13: 9780787953829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str.

Leon Martel; Richard E. Cavanagh

Opis

In High Performers Leon Martel--a senior fellow with the prestigious Conference Board--has identified twenty-five organizations from the United States, Europe, and Asia that have been named by the Financial Times and Fortune as the best places to work and are also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as leading financial performers.
Based on extensive research and interviews with senior managers, Leon Martel shows that companies with exceptional practices in core human resource areas produce both superior performance and create an outstanding workplace environment. This much-needed resource shows human resource professionals how to put in place the same winning HR practices that create a workplace environment that attracts and retains high-performing employees.

Recenzje

"This is a thoughtful wise book..." (Financial Executive, June 2002)

"...overall, High performers is a useful addition to the literature on comparative company practice..." (People Management, 25 July 2002)

"The book covers a lot of ground." (Across the Board, August 2002)

Spis treści

Foreword (Richard E. Cavanagh).

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

The Author.

1. The Twenty–Five Best Companies and What They Understand.

2. Work Content and the Work Environment.

3. Recruiting and Hiring.

4. Compensation and Benefits.

5. Education and Training.

6. General Principles and Key Themes.

Afterword.

Appendix A: Companies Interviewed.

Appendix B: Population Projections.

Notes.

Index.

O autorze

Leon Martel is a senior fellow at The Conference Board, where he served as senior vice president, first for research, managing the Board′s extensive studies program, then for international programs. Previously he was acting president, executive vice president, and director of the research management council of the Hudson Institute, and a tenured member of the faculty of Hofstra University. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including The next 200 Years (with Herman Kahn and William Brown) and Mastering Change, named one of the year′s Ten Outstanding Business Books by Best of Business Quarterly. A retired captain of the U.S. Naval Reserve, he holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College and MA and PhD degrees from Columbia.

Blurb

"Avoiding the current obsession with IT, Martel has taken as his brief that most important component of any business endeavor: human capital. Martel′s book is one for the new millenium; entertaining, instructive, with a refreshing emphasis on the practicalities of finding and, more important, keeping good staff." ––John R. Reid, chairman emeritus, Australian Graduate School of Management

"Leon Martel′s book is essential reading for business leaders who take their key role seriously–finding, motivating, and developing the business leaders of tomorrow." ––Niall W. A. FitzGerald, chairman, Unilever

"As leaders in all three sectors focus on performance as the essential element for personal and organizational success, along comes High Performers to support this leadership imperative." ––Frances Hesselbein, chairman and founding president, The Drucker Foundation

"Useful, practical, and helpful, this survey and analysis prods the practitioner and provokes the complacent towards the best way forward. Nothing teaches like the lessons of experience. Leon Martel has captured and summarized what we need to know. Now it is over to us to make the difference that his suggestions offer. He provides us the opportunity to significantly impact people in our organizations and raise their contributions by applying the best practices." ––John D. Hofmeister, director, human resources, Royal Dutch/Shell Group

"Leon Martel′s book provides useful and practical insights on what successful companies do to be successful. This ′insider′ perspective should stimulate new ideas for those executives who want their companies to be among the very best." ––S. H. Lee, vice president, human resources, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC)

"I commend Leon Martel′s book to CEOs, managers, and professionals whose businesses and operating environments have become global––and people more diverse, cosmopolitan, and international––in their common pursuit of honest, noble, and excellent performance." ––Loh Meng See, senior vice president, human resources, Singapore Airlines Limited