Human Capital Management - by Angela Baron & Michael Armstrong (Paperback)

About the Book

The field of Human Capital Management (HCM) concerns itself with a company's most important asset: its people. This book suggests ways for companies to improve performance by implementing human resources and business strategies derived from HCM.

Book Synopsis

Human Capital Management (HCM) has recently been described as a high-level strategic issue that seeks to analyze, measure and evaluate how people policies and practices create value. Put simply, HCM is about creating and demonstrating the value that great people and great people management add to an organization.

This unique book describes how HCM provides a bridge between human resource management and business strategy. It also demonstrates how organizations can use the concepts of human resource management and the processes involved to enhance the value they obtain from people while continuing to meet their aspirations and needs.

Baron and Armstrong explain how to achieve these objectives using various approaches including describing the concept of HCM and how the process works, discussing its application in numerous areas within an organization and examining the role of HR in HCM and the future of the concept.

It also contains a toolkit which organizations can use to develop their own HCM policies and practices.

Review Quotes

"[A] comprehensive guide to human capital management for HR managers and more general senior managers alike." - Rapport

"Provides a practical guide to how human capital management policies and practices can help deliver added value through people while continuing to meet their aspirations and needs." - Journal of Economic Literature

About the Author

Angela Baron is an advisor at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Her areas of expertise include; resourcing and organizational development.

Michael Armstrong is the UK's bestselling author of Human Resource Management books including Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice and several other titles published by Kogan Page. With over a million copies sold, his books have been translated into twenty-one languages. He is managing partner of E-Reward as well as an independent management consultant. Prior to this he was a chief examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).