Building Profit Through Building People: Making Your Workforce the Strongest Link in the Value-Profit Chain - Softcover

Carrig, Ken; Wright, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586440691 ISBN 13: 9781586440695

Publisher: Society For Human Resource Management, 2006

Synopsis

This instructive field book will guide human resource professionals and company management in their use of the profit value chain to build profitability through good management. Instruction for human resource professionals on becoming successful strategic partners in their companies and includeds information for company management on how strategic human resource can contribute to an organization's financial success. It focuses on practical, "how-to" steps in implementing value profit chain principles using the experiences of SYSCO, Sears, Continental Airlines, and other large, well-known organizations.

About this title

About the Author

Ken Carrig is an executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Sysco Corporation and the author of HR for the 21st Century and HR in Alignment & the Link to Business Results, an educational DVD. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas. Patrick M. Wright is a professor of human resource studies and the director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell University. He has published over 40 research articles in journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal and is the author of Human Resource Management: Gaining Competitive Advantage and Management of Organizations. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society For Human Resource Management
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586440691
• ISBN 13: 9781586440695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200