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The work world is changing faster than ever before. Adapting to this new reality without a significant interruption in results is increasingly a top priority for all businesses.

The key to thriving through disruption is understanding and practicing human capital strategies that will drive enterprise performance and value-creation.

In Humanizing Human Capital, renowned business thought leaders Solange Charas, PhD, and Stela Lupushor reframe traditional HR practices into a future-forward strategy to optimize human capital. Charas and Lupushor shift decision-making about people from a gut sense to an evidence-based approach—a critical and much-needed departure from the cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best approach of most traditional HR programs today.

Humanizing Human Capital reveals a step-by-step method to apply analytics approaches to human capital while anticipating inevitable changes in the workforce landscape. This will enable human capital professionals to generate positive outcomes for all stakeholders and allow management to make decisions that work for the entire enterprise.

With this book’s comparison of “traditional” with the “future-forward” approach to human capital management, case studies, real-world situations, and 20 business principles, you will learn to:

Adopt a best-evidence versus best-practice approach to decision makingShift your thinking so that you view human capital as a crucial investment rather than as a sunk costIdentify what needs to change to respond to future pressures and apply critical thinking to create workable solutionsBalance human capital analytics with the more human-centric elements of people managementEquip yourself with approaches and tools to interpret the collective voice of the workforceUtilize methods to measure and optimize human capital efficiency, increasing your ROI Increase value for all key stakeholders, including investors, management, workers, customers, partners, and the community at large
The road ahead may seem unpredictable and even treacherous, but Humanizing Human Capital provides leaders of any organization a new framework to create resilient, responsive, and innovative organizations with tangible and sustainable business results.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Matt Holt (September 13, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1637741804
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637741801
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.31 x 1.16 x 9.38 inches
Reviewer: Alexandra R. Lajoux
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you hate "HR," you will love the book - on how to analyze human capital humanely.
Review: At last--a human capital analytics book that tells the whole story about this much misunderstood corporate practice. Humanizing Human Capital describes not only the help that HR analytics can offer, but it also the harms they can cause. “We are dealing with humans who have emotions, career ambitions, and families to support—not unfeeling machines,” note Charas and Lupushor.To bring analytics into line with their human purpose, metrics must be accurate, consistent, reliable, relevant, secure--and interpreted fairly, by individuals who can be objective, say the authors.Throughout their highly readable pages, the authors provide practical tools to humanize technology through personalization, privacy, and transparency. They are not forcing employees into a bell curve; in fact, they even feature research linking “ratingless performance reviews” and “ongoing feedback” to higher profits.From its intentionally ironic title to its surprisingly comprehensive index, this is the perfect book for directors, managers and employees weary of counterproductive HR systems but lacking the arguments and research to advocate for better approaches.

Reviewer: Tim Frazier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book for all business leaders
Review: Using data and analytics to make better decisions about your people seems like a pretty simple idea, but it still isn’t a well understood concept for most businesses. Stella and Solange address that and more in their research and writing.Overall the book is easy to read where the authors give practical ideas that help business leaders to better invest in their people.My lesson:We love people, except when they cost our business too much money.But if we invest in our people, they actually can help improve the success of the business.

Reviewer: Trina Hoefling
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Humanizes Data without Overload on Statistics - for C Suite and HR Leaders
Review: I was looking forward to this book release for over a year, and it didn't disappoint. I wondered if all the analytics focus would make it a dry read, but it really isn't focused on analytics so much as taking leaders through the employee experience and how to unleash talent to deliver results, and developing the case for why it's important to consider how to measure human capital contribution.

Reviewer: Ed Johnson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good stuff. Not a lot new here, but well organized, well written, and easy to apply
Review: The book is well-organized, practical and easy to apply. It's also an easy read.Two minor criticisms: 1) is that all of the citations are at the end of the book (vs. at the end of the chapter or as you go), thus making the references a little harder to find (perhaps because it's harder to set into the text?) and 2.) the applications and stories seem heavily oriented toward white-collar knowledge workers. More stories or anecdotes about other kinds of employees (e.g., manufacturing, retail, etc.) would have been welcome

Reviewer: Brad Boyson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An important read
Review: The nature of work is shifting and those who can identify and inspire will lead. The authors do a wonderful job of bridging the future of work with practical tools that connects human performance with human nature. Both timely and timeless.

Reviewer: Julie M. Staudenmier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Engaging AND a highly useful resource
Review: Solange Charas and Stela Lupushor have created a highly valuable resource, with clear guidelines on how to create human centered practices that are science and research based, AND financially sound. They've also done a masterful job of describing why human capital analytics are especially essential now (Why Now?) and how HR leaders and practitioners can improve the credibility and impact of their work (How?). As an experience HR leader with core values of human centered practices and science based decision making, I will be keeping this book close at hand. I also recommend it as an excellent book for people just beginning their HR careers. Let's help people get it right, right from the start!

Reviewer: Doug Hoppe
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Loaded with information how HR can become more vital in organizations
Review: This book is loaded with a wealth of information that I plan to discuss with various leaders in our organization. Readers should get a clearer picture of the importance of HR as an integral part of setting business strategies with the highest levels of leadership. As a people analytics practitioner, I find the book provides many good ideas on how we should support higher level decision making and value proposition within our analytics framework. The book also emphasizes the need and provides ideas for leveraging the right technologies for capturing information. It also gives a look into the future how technologies, changing work environments and generational priorities may impact the landscape of how future work gets done within organizations.

Reviewer: LarryCU
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Following the numbers, how best to move from best practice HR to "Best-Evidence Human Capital"
Review: This book makes cutting-edge progress as a human capital treasure map. So practical that I had ten pages of notes upon completion. Getting good ROI (Return On Individual) has never been more pressing. I treasure these notes for they lead me and our LISTEN|LEARN|LEAD collective to pay dirt. This quote affirms there is a reward for our effort."...…importance of data analytics to capture the interaction between and across people, devices, sensors, bots, and tools, leading to the creation of massive amounts of data that can be stored, processed, and analyzed for new insights." @Chief_Connector & @TalentPlatform

Reviewer: David Simmonds
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The authors have produced an exceptional book, which everybody in HR needs to read. Written during the time of the pandemic and the Great Resignation, they have provided us with a blueprint for the way ahead. Based on 20 principles, applicable to the HR function in all organisations, their framework combines the benefits of anecdotes, case studues, and interviews, together with HCM Metrics. The ROI of HR can finally be ascertained!Written in a lively and engaging style, this work is difficult to put down.