Maximizing Your HR Efforts - Leading HR Executives on Increasing Employee Engagement, Ensuring Optimal Efficiency, and Creating a Culture of Recognition (Paperback)

Maximizing Your HR Efforts is an authoritative, insider's perspective on positioning human resources as an integral component in your company's success. Featuring heads of HR representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for making the most of HR while overcoming budgetary constraints brought on by a down economy. Driven by the demand to drive organizational performance, the authors discuss the importance of aligning with business objectives by building a new HR vision, focusing on talent, and shaping the work environment for optimal efficiency. From evaluating initiatives to creating connections across the company, these authors outline the steps every HR leader needs to take to establish a world-class HR organization. Highlighting the importance of allocating resources wisely in financially troubling times, the authors also demonstrate how to improve employee engagement by increasing accountability, translating performance to pay, and strengthening the employee/manager relationship. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of the leading HR minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to capitalizing on all the HR department has to offer.