Human Capital Management: Achieving Added Value through People

  • 3h 22m
  • Angela Baron, Michael Armstrong
  • Kogan Page
  • 2007

Aimed at human resources practitioners, this volume explains how managing human capital impacts business performance and profitability. Baron and Armstrong discuss the concept of human capital management (HCM), describe how it works in practice, and identify the specific skills HR specialists need in order to deliver effective HCM. The appendix includes a “toolkit” that organizations can use to develop their own policies.

About the Authors

Angela Baron is an adviser at the UK's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Her areas of expertise include resourcing and organizational development.

Michael Armstrong is a former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, joint managing partner of e-reward and an independent management consultant. He has sold over 500,000 books on the subject of HRM (published with Kogan Page), including Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • The Concept of Human Capital
  • The Concept of HCM
  • The Process of HCM
  • Human Capital Data
  • Measuring Human Capital
  • Human Capital Reporting
  • Applications of HCM
  • The Role of HR in HCM
  • The Skills HR Specialists Need for HCM
  • The Future of HCM
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