Human Factor

How to Realize the Potential of Your People and Your Business
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-3986-1816-9
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

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. This book is a roadmap to success for all senior HR professionals, organizational development practitioners, managers and leaders. Written by an expert author team with more than 50 years' collective experience, this book explains why the human factor is so important and how the changing context in which we live and work is needing HR professionals to evolve to stay relevant. There is detailed discussion of organizational change as well as a framework for building a case for change. There is 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 around human motivation, the role it plays as individuals and leaders and the need for continuous improvement of staff at all levels. Sustainability, technology and analytics are also explored.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esau, Michael

Humphreys, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 01: Strategy and Purpose;
  • Chapter - 02: The case for change;
  • Chapter - 03: The Fluidity of Culture;
  • Chapter - 04: The importance of having a philosophy;
  • Chapter - 05: The Predisposition of a Human Being;
  • Chapter - 06: Building Commitment to Change;
  • Chapter - 07: The Employee Value Proposition;
  • Chapter - 08: The relativity of success;
  • Chapter - 09: Human experience, engagement and advocacy;
  • Chapter - 10: The Role of the Leader;
  • Chapter - 11: Executing the basics brilliantly;
  • Chapter - 12: Listening, Insights and Feedback;
  • Chapter - 13: Nurturing and Developing;
  • Chapter - 14: The Role of Technology in Execution;
  • Chapter - 15: The dynamics of teams;
  • Chapter - 16: Our Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Esau, Michael
Michael Esau is a Global Value Advisor at SAP with over 25 years' experience in delivering organizational development solutions, cultural transformations and employee engagement strategies. Based in Manchester, UK he is the co-host of the podcast, The Human Factor.

Humphreys, Simon
Simon Humphreys is a Global Solution Architect at SAP with 30 years experience, working clients globally on how to maximize the return on HR technology investments. Based in Manchester, UK, he is the co-host of the podcast, The Human Factor.

Michael Esau is a Global Value Advisor at SAP with over 25 years' experience in delivering organizational development solutions, cultural transformations and employee engagement strategies. Based in Manchester, UK he is the co-host of the podcast, The Human Factor. Simon Humphreys is a Global Solution Architect at SAP with 30 years experience, working clients globally on how to maximize the return on HR technology investments. Based in Manchester, UK, he is the co-host of the podcast, The Human Factor.