High Performers: How the Best Companies Find and Keep Them Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

First line

Companies need high performing, committed employees.

From the rear cover

In High Performers Leon Martel--a senior fellow with the prestigious Conference Board--has identified twenty-five organizations from the United States, Europe, and Asia that have been named by the Financial Times and Fortune as the best places to work and are also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as leading financial performers.
Based on extensive research and interviews with senior managers, Leon Martel shows that companies with exceptional practices in core human resource areas produce both superior performance and create an outstanding workplace environment. This much-needed resource shows human resource professionals how to put in place the same winning HR practices that create a workplace environment that attracts and retains high-performing employees.
High Performers offers a comprehensive review of all the relevant human resource practices that contribute to a successful work environment where employees can thrive, including how to:
* Make work meaningful and workers feel they are valued
* Identify, recruit, and hire employees in high demand in a changing workforce
* Use compensation and benefits to promote performance and build loyalty
* Create education and training suited to today's knowledge-related work--and expected by today's most valuable workers
Throughout the book, Martel offers human resource executives a practical guide filled with valuable information for putting new HR theories about human capital and intellectual capital into practice.

From the jacket flap

In High Performers Leon Martel--a senior fellow with the prestigious Conference Board--has identified twenty-five organizations from the United States, Europe, and Asia that have been named by the Financial Times and Fortune as the best places to work and are also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as leading financial performers.
Based on extensive research and interviews with senior managers, Leon Martel shows that companies with exceptional practices in core human resource areas produce both superior performance and create an outstanding workplace environment. This much-needed resource shows human resource professionals how to put in place the same winning HR practices that create a workplace environment that attracts and retains high-performing employees.
High Performers offers a comprehensive review of all the relevant human resource practices that contribute to a successful work environment where employees can thrive, including how to:
* Make work meaningful and workers feel they are valued
* Identify, recruit, and hire employees in high demand in a changing workforce
* Use compensation and benefits to promote performance and build loyalty
* Create education and training suited to today's knowledge-related work--and expected by today's most valuable workers
Throughout the book, Martel offers human resource executives a practical guide filled with valuable information for putting new HR theories about human capital and intellectual capital into practice.