Investing in Your Company's Human Capital: Strategies to Avoid Spending Too Little -- or Too Much

The importance of an organization's human capital -- its people -- cannot be overstated or overlooked, but like any other asset, it must be carefully managed and monitored. The people in a company reflect the investment not only of money, but also of the time dedicated to developing and executing projects and programs. Investing in Your Company's Human Capital presents five strategies for establishing appropriate levels of investment -- monetary and otherwise -- in workforce initiatives. The book addresses four overarching questions:

* How much should we invest in human capital, and is it possible to spend too much?
* Why is it important to invest (and invest properly) in human capital?
* What measures should be monitored? (the author identifies 24)
* What are the roles of the CEO and other executives and senior team members?

A practical approach to an often mishandled asset, Investing in Your Company's Human Capital is a valuable tool for driving any enterprise's bottom line.

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Investing in Human Capital - the right way!, 2005-09-02
As an HR executive, I always enjoy reading Jack's books for the depth of content, and well-researched data and cases. This newest book, Investing in Your Company's Human Capital, is a model case study in HR business planning and measuring what matters. For those HR professionals that struggle getting a seat at the table and justifying expenditures, this book is a must read! It is possible to align HR to your corporate and business goals. Jack shows you a simple approach to show HR yield by using the ROI principles and by following the rule that less is more.

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