‘World-class HR: the new measurement agenda’ pulls together the most important developments in measurement practice to provide a highly practical set of guidelines to help HR directors find their own solution.

"World-Class HR: the new measurement agenda cuts through the complexity and identifies some simple truths about what makes good HR measurement. Through a series of well-researched case studies, the report provides real insight into how best practice can be applied in the real world”
John Reid-Dodick, Global Head of Organisational Development, Reuters
Practical advice on developing strategic HR measures
HR Directors are under unprecedented pressure to demonstrate the value of HR to the business. Senior managers, along with other stakeholders inside and outside the organization, are looking for hard evidence of HR’s contribution to business development and performance.

The new HR measurement agenda is being driven by a number of groups:

· Senior managers looking for a demonstration of HR's bottom line contribution.
· Government and regulatory bodies calling for companies to report on human capital and people performance issues
· Investors, analysts, partners and other stakeholders who want greater understanding of HR’s impact on the business.

Not least, those HR Directors who want to be accepted as equal partners by the business and know how vital it is to demonstrate incontrovertibly that HR is essential to the achievement of business goals.

World-Class HR: the new measurement agenda will show you how to
· Improve the visibility of HR's business value
· Define actionable HR measures
· Assess the value of your organisation’s human capital
· Use the balanced scorecard to align HR measures with corporate goals
· Link intangible measures to bottom-line performance
· Use measures as a catalyst for performance improvement
· Develop effective reporting adn benchmarking

In addition, this report shows how companies such as The Royal Bank of Scotland, Novo Nordisk, Deutsche Bank, Reuters and Yorkshire Water Services are marrying external demands for HR measures that can be benchmarked against other organizations with the needs for measures that are highly tailored to their individual strategic priorities

World-Class HR: the new measurement agenda combines the experience of innovative companies with emerging best-practice principles to show you how to build indicators and measurement programme that supports the development of a world-class HR capability.