Human capital management: resources and background reading

Section five of the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on human capital management, comprising a directory of useful resources. Other sections .

Resources

US Human Capital Institute

www.humancapitalinstitute.org/hci/home.guid

US Dept. of Energy - 'HCM' Strategy

www.ma.mbe.doe.gov/HCMSP/home.htm

Goldman Sachs - careers in 'HCM'

www.gs.com/careers/inside_goldman_sachs/business_snapshot/human_capital_management/

Standard and Poor's

www2.standardandpoors.com

Background and further reading

Not all of these texts are referred to in this guide. However, human capital management is a huge subject with a long history, and together these texts cover many of the wider aspects. A search on Google (www.google.co.uk) for 'capital management' will produce more than 4 million hits, so it is strongly recommended that you research and read these first.

Accounting for People Taskforce Report, October 2003 (see www.accountingforpeople.gov.uk)

Argyris, C (1999), On Organisational Learning. Blackwell Publishers

Edvinsson, L and Malone M (1997), Intellectual Capital, Harper

Hope, J, Fraser, R and Horngren, T (2003) Beyond Budgeting. Harvard Business School Press

Kaplan, R and Norton, D (1996), The Balanced Scorecard - Translating Strategy into Action. Harvard Business School Press

Kearns, P (2003), HR Strategy: Business Focused, Individually Centred. Butterworth Heinemann

Kearns, P (2002), The Bottom Line HR Function. Spiro Publishing

Kearns, P (2000), Maximising your ROI in Training. Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Kearns, P (2000), Measuring and managing employee performance. Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Lev, Baruch (2001), Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Reporting. The Brookings Institution

Ohmae, K (1991), The Mind of the Strategist. McGraw-Hill

Pfau, B (2001), The Human Capital Edge McGraw Hill (also works for Watson Wyatt and its Human Capital Index)

Rucci AJ, Kim, SP, and Quinn, RT (1998), The Employee-Customer Profit Chain at Sears, Harvard Business Review

Scarborough, H (2003), The Change Agenda, Human Capital External Reporting Framework, CIPD

Senge, P (1993). The Fifth Discipline. Random House

Ulrich, D, Becker, D, Huselid, M (2001), The HR Scorecard. Harvard Business School Press