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Global Human Capital Study 2005

The capability within: how organizations are leveraging their human capital to improve workforce effectiveness and organizational performance.

The Global Human Capital Study 2005 surveyed more than 300 organizations worldwide and included face-to-face interviews (carried out by our Human Capital consultants) with more than 100 Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs). It provides a comprehensive assessment of the CHRO's agenda.

The Study confirms the findings of the IBM Global CEO Study 2004. CHROs share their CEOs’ views about people. Fewer than half of the participants in this Study could confirm that their organization was adequately equipped to respond to the growth and responsiveness priorities set out by their CEOs.

Global Human Capital Study 2005 Yet, it is also recognized that people are the competitive difference. The potential of people can be transformed. Organizations can respond successfully to the challenges of a volatile, ever-changing, global marketplace. But it requires an enterprise-wide commitment to the programs and services necessary to achieve these goals, with the CHRO being the key thought-leader and champion.

It is time for the CHRO to set out a new human capital agenda, because the tasks facing the CHRO are complex. What follows in this document are five important findings. When combined with the findings of our Global CEO Study, they make for compelling reading for executive leadership teams across the world.

Professor Mari Sako from Said Business School on the Human Capital Study.

To obtain a full copy of the report via download or a hard copy via mail, please register here.

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