Human capital management: Literature

By using a different "lens" to examine talent management issues, companies have the opportunity to more effectively use their limited investment funds to achieve greater organizational effectiveness and strategic alignment.

Recent business disruptions have affected organizations worldwide, and while most businesses have continuity plans in place, many don’t address a company’s most precious assets: its employees.

Along with the necessary resources to transform data into insights, workforce analytics is enabling HR professionals to be more engaged in the formulation of corporate strategy.

To meet the responsibilities of guiding a global, well integrated C&P enterprise, executives need to rethink their workforce visions using strategies and tools that support collaboration, enable new opportunities, encourage learning, and help predict and attract expert skills.

As the metals and mining industries change, they face growing workforce challenges that must be met through a combination of executive focus, transformed processes and technology enablers.

Though it may sound surprising, the world of online gaming can provide business leadership insights for the 21st century.

Questions about composition and capabilities of the workforce are never more pertinent that in times of economic distress, when decisions must be made that affect productivity, morale, retention of corporate knowledge and competitive positioning.

As the war for talent plays out on a global scale, companies are now taking a harder look at how they are hiring, connecting and developing their employees on a worldwide basis.

To become globally integrated enterprises, companies must adjust their approach to workforce management.

Read about how to better manage human capital in order to eliminate roadblocks to innovation and growth.

The IBM Institute for Business Value has followed the Global CEO Study 2006 with a detailed analysis to better understand how organizations can mobilize their most important assets – their people, customers and suppliers – to more effectively innovate in today’s business environment.

Based on interviews with more than 1,100 CEOs, the IBM Global CEO Study depicts a clear picture of the Enterprise of the Future. But to achieve these aspirations, organizations will need to address several human capital challenges.

Most organizations recognize the importance of aligning talent management and organizational strategies, and many believe they are already making progress; however, execution and integration still challenge many who participated in our recent human capital management survey.

From improving efficiency to aligning performance with strategic goals, our human capital consultants can help you shape company behaviors in ways that empoer employees to excel.

Gather ideas about the business changes foreign companies may need to make in order to tap China's rapidly growing mass market.

Podcast Interview: People and Innovation: Getting Ideas on the Table

Closing the Generation Divide: Shifting Workforce Demographics and the Learning Function

A new approach, a new capability: The strategic side of Human Resources

Having survived the hiring boom of the late 1990’s, and the cost cutting and layoffs that followed, today’s human resources (HR) organizations must now focus on two overarching objectives: delivering strategic insights to business units, as well as continuing to provide administrative services.

Learn about the results of a study focusing on the experiences and perceptions of remote workers, highlighting the critical issues across a number of countries, industries and mobile working environments.

In a host of people-intensive industries, such as retail, banking, transportation, government, healthcare and customer service, organizations are looking toward improved workforce management tools.

In many organizations, learning professionals are facing a serious quandary. More and more organizations are looking toward outsourcing as one way of equipping themselves for the growing complexity of today's environment and increasing expectations of their senior executives.

A new generation of workers is emerging within European organizations. For these employees, the car, the home office, the hotel and the customer site have become the nexus of their working lives. This shift to a more distributed, flexible model of work has important implications.

How can an organization empower its employees, reduce costs and improve data quality? Implementing employee self-service tools is one direction that a number of leading companies are turning to as they look to build win-win propositions with their most important assets: their people.

Changes in workforce demographics, labor migration patterns and economic conditions are causing organizations to face the challenge of retaining critical knowledge that is departing the organization.

IBM Institute for Business Value podcast on the Global Human Capital study