Savitz / Weber Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line

How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable Growth
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-22549-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

HR Professional's guide to creating a strategically sustainableorganization
Employees are central to creating sustainable organizations, yetthey are left on the sidelines in most sustainability initiativesalong with the HR professionals who should be helping to engage andenergize them. This book shows business leaders and HRprofessionals how to: motivate employees to create economic,environmental and social value; facilitate necessary culture,strategic and organizational change; embed sustainability into theemployee lifecycle; and strengthen existing capabilities anddevelop new ones necessary to support the transformation tosustainability.
Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line alsodemonstrates how leading companies are using sustainability tostrengthen core HR functions: to win the war for talent, tomotivate and empower employees, to increase productivity, and toenliven traditional HR-related efforts such as diversity, healthand wellness, community involvement and volunteerism. Incombination, these powerful benefits can help drive businessgrowth, performance, and results.
* The book offers strategies, policies, tools and specific actionsteps that business leaders and HR professionals can use to getinto the sustainability game or enhance their effortsdramatically
* Andrew Savitz is an expert in sustainability and has workedextensively with many organizations on sustainability strategy andimplementation; he and Karl Weber wrote The Triple BottomLine, one of the most successful books in the field
* Published in partnership with SHRM and with the cooperation ofthe World Business Council for Sustainable Development
* Forward by Edward Lawler III
This book fills a gaping hole in both the HR and sustainabilityliterature by educating HR professionals about sustainability,sustainability professionals about HR, and business leaders abouthow to marry the two to accelerate progress on both fronts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savitz, Andrew

Weber, Karl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lawler, Edward E.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Savitz is a principal of Sustainable BusinessStrategies and a business advisor with more than thirty years ofexperience assisting organizations to become more sustainable. Hewas formerly a lead partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's globalsustainability group. With business writer Karl Weber, he authoredthe bestselling book The Triple Bottom Line.