Costing Human Resources : The financial impact of behaviour in organization

The Financial Impact of Behaviour in Organizations, addresses the methods available for estimating the dollar value of human resource development programs. Most of the features of the previous editions have been retained, but they have been updated to reflect new research findings. Some of these features include : -Intellectual capital as a framework for integrating HR costing measures and as a new way of strategic thinking (Chapter 1). -New company examples that illustrate the causes, costs, and methods for dealing with employee turnover and absenteeism (Chapters 2 and 3). -Extensive coverage of the costs, benefits, types, and program-evaluation issues associated with work site health-promotion programs, plus company-level evaluations of such programs (chapter 5). -Examination of the utilities of competing predictors that differ in adverse impact, how to deal with risk and uncertainty in utility analysis, and how to maximize the impact of utility analysis on decision makers (chapters 10 and 11). -Improved treatment of costing procedures for proposed or ongoing HR development programs, including effect-size estimation (Chapter 11). -Updated treatment and examples of alternative competitive strategies, and methods for linking effective HR management to profits (chapter 12).