Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable Growth
by Savitz, Andrew; Weber, Karl; Lawler, Edward E.Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2013-02-26
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Summary
HR Professionals guide to creating a strategically sustainable organization Employees are central to creating sustainable organizations, yet they are left on the sidelines in most sustainability initiatives-along with the HR professionals who should be helping to engage and energize them. This book shows business leaders and HR professionals how to: motivate employees to create economic, environmental and social value; facilitate necessary culture, strategic and organizational change; embed sustainability into the employee lifecycle; and strengthen existing capabilities and develop new ones necessary to support the transformation to sustainability. Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line also demonstrates how leading companies are using sustainability to strengthen core HR functions: to win the war for talent, to motivate and empower employees, to increase productivity, and to enliven traditional HR-related efforts such as diversity, health and wellness, community involvement and volunteerism. In combination, these powerful benefits can help drive business growth, performance, and results. The book offers strategies, policies, tools and specific action steps that business leaders and HR professionals can use to get into the sustainability game or enhance their efforts dramatically Andrew Savitz is an expert in sustainability and has worked extensively with many organizations on sustainability strategy and implementation; he and Karl Weber wrote The Triple Bottom Line, one of the most successful books in the field Published in partnership with SHRM and with the cooperation of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development This book fills a gaping hole in both the HR and sustainability literature by educating HR professionals about sustainability, sustainability professionals about HR, and business leaders about how to marry the two to accelerate progress on both fronts.
Author Biography
Andrew Savitz is a principal of Sustainable Business Strategies and a business advisor with more than thirty years of experience assisting organizations to become more sustainable. He was formerly a lead partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's global sustainability group. With business writer Karl Weber, he authored the bestselling book The Triple Bottom Line.
Table of Contents
Foreword (Edward E. Lawler III)
Preface
Part One: Transformation, Talent, and Human Resources
Chapter 1: Transforming GE: Building a Sustainable Corporation from the People Up
Ecomagination: How and Why GE Is Turning Green
People Movers: How HR Is Helping Sustainability Take Hold
Healthymagination: How HR and Employees Are Advancing Sustainable Health Care
Eight Lessons: What HR, Sustainability and Business Leaders Can Learn from GE
Leveraging HR for Sustainable Growth: The New Winning Strategy
Chapter 2: Sustainability: The Global Challenge, The Business Opportunity, and the People Factor
Sustainability Milestones: The Brundtland Commission and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
The Trends That Have Led to the Age of Sustainability
The Triple Bottom Line: A New Way To Define and Measure Success
The Sweet Spot and Sustainability Strategy
Sustainability and Profitability
What’s in It for Business?
Getting Started: Where HR Meets Sustainability
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Part Two: From Traditional HR to Sustainable HR
Chapter 3: Embedding Sustainability in the Workforce Lifecycle
Building Sustainability into Core HR Processes
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 4: Embedding Sustainability in Employee Selection
When People Policies Fail the Sustainability Test: The Johnson & Johnson Story
Employer Branding, Sustainability, and the Global War for Talent
Targeting and Recruiting Tomorrow’s Sustainability Leaders
Values Alignment: Incorporating Sustainability into the Hiring Process
Building Sustainability into Job Descriptions
Why Sustainability Requires and Advances Diversity
Hiring for Sustainability: The Beryl Story
Putting Hiring at the Heart of Your Sustainability Strategy
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 5: Embedding Sustainability in Career Development, Rewards and Retention
Inculcating Sustainability Values Through the Onboarding Process
Training for Sustainability
Career Development: Building Sustainability in Tomorrow’s Leaders
Employee Assistance
Using Compensation and Incentives Wisely to Promote Sustainability
The Importance of Non-Financial Incentives
Retention and Sustainability
Compliance and Discipline
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 6: Embedding Sustainability in Performance Management, Succession Planning and Employee Separation
Performance Appraisal: Evaluating and Rewarding Sustainability Performance
Workforce Planning: New Requirements, New Jobs for the Workforce of Tomorrow
Labor Pool Analysis: Minds, Hearts, and Expectations in a Changing World
Performance Management in the Age of Sustainability
Sustainability and Early Separation
Sustainability, Retirement and Postretirement
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 7: Building Sustainability Into Core HR Products: Policy-Related Outcomes and Other HR Deliverables
Caring and Advocating for Employees: A Core HR Sustainability Product
How Sustainability Is Expanding HR’s Responsibilities
The HR Role as Defined in Global Systems for Measuring and Reporting On Sustainability
Wages and Benefits Policies: The Return On Investing in Employees
Employee Wellness Programs and Sustainability
Creating Better Working Conditions
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Part Three: Organizational Development and Change: HR’s Role in Building Sustainable Companies
Chapter 8: Sustainability and Organizational Capacity: the Toolbox for Success
Organizational Capacity: The Essential Toolbox for Success
Innovation
Collaboration
Long-Term Orientation
Outward Focus
Interdependent Thinking
Learning
Adaptability
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 9: Sustainability and Culture Change
The Three Levels of Organizational Culture
Why Traditional Corporate Cultures May Resist Sustainability
When Culture Sabotages Sustainability: Why BP Cannot Operate Safely
When Culture and Sustainability Are Aligned: How American Electric Power Created a Zero-Harm Culture
Five Lessons: What HR, Sustainability and Business Leaders Can Learn from Comparing BP and AEP
Evaluating Your Organization’s Culture
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Chapter 10: The Game Plan: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? Organizational and Strategic Change
Why Change Occurs: The Twin Drivers- Danger and Opportunity
What Shall We Change?
How Shall We Change?
Ad Hoc Change
Systematic Change
How to Change: The Classic Eight-Step System
Top-Down Change Versus Bottom-Up Change
Motivating Change: How People Movers Appeal to Minds and Hearts
Making Change Easier
Four Ways to Jumpstart Change
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Part Four: Sustainability and Employee Engagement
Chapter 11: The Secret Source: One Part Sustainability, One Part Engagement, Two Parts Profit
The Link Between Sustainability, Engagement, and Profit
How “Acme Corporation” Leveraged Sustainability to Engage Its Workforce, Increase Customer Satisfaction, and Improve Profitability
The Golden Triangle: Understanding the Entire Business Case for Sustainability
How Starbucks Creates Value from Values
Measuring the Impact of Sustainability on Employee Engagement
How HR and Sustainability Professionals Can Work Together
Getting Started with Sustainability and Employee Engagement Programs
Strategic Volunteerism as a Starting Point
Employee Engagement and Sustainability: The Secret Source of Transformation?
Questions for Business Leaders, Sustainability Specialists, and HR Professionals
Acknowledgements
Source Notes
Index
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