Today's blog focuses on the next volume of the Journal of Applied Human Capital Management -Volume 3 Number 1 2009 due out in March.
The article line-up is as follows with a brief narrative of the focus:
- Performance based Engagement: Applying the new focus of employee engagement in organisations
Employee engagement as a concept has been with us for some time and a number of organisations have created initiatives to improve 'engagement'. However, the industry is littered with well-meaning frameworks or implementation that have limitations. Too much focus has been on the input side of 'employee' and not enough on the 'organisation' side of collective performance or worse a negative impact of misaligned engagement. This article redresses the balance. - Brave New HR World Part III: Managing in a downturn
This article follows the popularly read 'Brave New HR World' parts I and II from earlier journal volumes. Building on the concepts and practical applications of the first two articles, Part III shows how the HR/HCM function and practitioners can meet the challenges of organisation pressures in harsher economic times and to exploit opportunities to increase value contribution.
- Making sense of HR budgets: Applying value-based HR principles
HR function budgets are notoriously messy, often lack a comparative framework and too often open to cost reduction without due diligence. What HR/HCM functions need is a structured framework following value-based HR principles which this article explains.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of management of people: Observations from the frontline
As evaluatiing people management effectiveness becomes more popular we look at the empirical evidence provided by the VB-HR(TM) Rating and what practitioners can glean from this.
- Evidence based management: What it means for HR practitioners
Evidence based Management (EbM) is a relatively new growing movement based on some old principles. This article explains its significance and what it means for HR/HCM practitioners
- Employee engagement: Key learnings from what organisations find and what they do about it
Another article using empirical evidence to provide insight as to what organisations typically find when undertaking employee engagement assessments and what they do and don't do about it....
- Human Capital Management versus Human Resource Management:
The way forward?
This article outlines the difference between HCM and HRM. It is becoming clear to a significant number of practitioners that there is a clear demarcation between the two and that HCM is the way forward...
- Industry focus: People management in the NHS
An inside look at the effectiveness of people management in NHS Trusts
A fairly interesting line-up as I am sure you will agree making the Journal fairly leading edge in its practical topics.
Previous journal volume and articles in the public domain can be downloaded from http://www.valuentis.com/Publications/Journal/index.htm and/or http://www.ishcm.com/publications.htm
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The blog was originally designed to be interactive with the expectation that people would blog in about the concepts and articles in the Journal (amongst other debating topics of current interest).
We know form our records that the Journal articles have been downloaded in some quantity (I'm talking thousands per article here) so unless people like downloading pdfs but don't read them it would suggest quite a readership.
I'd like to think that regular PT/PT blog readers are amongst them.
So please send a comment or a question in (no monologues -we/you don't have the time). I am often disappointed that too much blog comment is on such small things.........let's balance it a bit...
