Play to Your Strengths: Managing Your Internal Labor Markets for Lasting Competitive Advantage

by Haig Nalbantian, Haig R. Nalbandian

The breakthrough approach for aligning people with strategy for higher profits Organizations that select, develop, deploy, manage, and motivate their people to produce outstanding business results have an extraordinary competitive advantage that others can't copy. Backed by Mercer's nine-year, $10 million study of leading companies around the world, Play to Your Strengths shows how to leverage a company's human capital strategy into business results that are measurable and profitable and that will create exceptional, enduring competitive advantages. This bottom-line-boosting guide gives managers, senior executives, and consultants the theory, tools, and processes they need

Genres: Business

272 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12, 2003

Reviews

[Nick]

This book shows companies and executives how to track and measure investments in the workforce. It’s main point is that we should treat such investments as any investment in physical assets, where we are constantly looking to maximize our investments and measure ROI.

[Abdul]

Being part of Mercer HR consulting firm, I am proud to see this work of My colleagues.

The three authors discuss theory and practice of human capital management and strategy. The discussionrevolves around three themes: systems thinking, facts and value. There are two important tools used in the analysis: internal labor market and human business Modeling.

According to the authors, there are six factors that underpin the human capital strategy, namely: people, work processes, managerial structure, information and knowledge, decision making and rewards.