Maximizing Your HR Efforts: Leading HR Executives on Increasing Employee Engagement, Ensuring Optimal Efficiency, and Creating a Culture of Recognition (Inside the Minds)

Maximizing Your HR Efforts is an authoritative, insider's perspective on positioning human resources as an integral component in your company's success. Featuring heads of HR representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for making the most of HR while overcoming budgetary constraints brought on by a down economy. Driven by the demand to drive organizational performance, the authors discuss the importance of aligning with business objectives by building a new HR vision, focusing on talent, and shaping the work environment for optimal efficiency. From evaluating initiatives to creating connections across the company, these authors outline the steps every HR leader needs to take to establish a world-class HR organization. Highlighting the importance of allocating resources wisely in financially troubling times, the authors also demonstrate how to improve employee engagement by increasing accountability, translating performance to pay, and strengthening the employee/manager relationship. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of the leading HR minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to capitalizing on all the HR department has to offer.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters Include:

1. Ellie Hollander, Chief People Officer, AARP
2. Mark Gasta, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Vail Resorts
3. C. Sue Ernspiger, SPHR, Executive Vice President, Corporate Services, rsc The Quality Measurement Company
4. Kimberly L. Giangrande, SPHR, GPHR, Vice President, Global Human Resources, Survey Sampling International
5. Ken Haderer, Executive Vice President, Aon Consulting
6. Susie Frazelle, Vice President, Human Resources, Dow Jones
7. Roberta Kressel, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, BankUnited
8. Meredith C. Johnson, Chief People Officer, and Edwin E. Hightower Jr., Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Gevity HR Inc.
9. Janie Minkin, Senior Consultant, HRadvantage
10. Joyce Manning Magrini, Executive Vice President, Administration, Finlay Fine Jewelry
11. Curtis L. Lloyd, Chief Human Resources Officer; Associate Vice Chancellor, Finance and Administration; and Chief of Staff - Office of the Chancellor
State University of New York 12. Clarissa A. Peterson, Chief People Officer, DLA Piper
13. Sherri L. Enright, Vice President, Human Resources, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City