Bestsellers from AMACOM

Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within, 5th Edition

Covering best practices, current trends, and the latest technology, the fifth edition also features new and revised material on succession planning for small businesses and nonprofits, replacement planning, transition management, downsizing, international issues, mergers and acquisitions as a talent strategy, and succession planning for technical positions as well as roles built on longstanding social relationships. Packed with enlightening case studies and practical guidance, Effective Succession Planning remains an indispensable resource for any organization concerned with retaining the accumulated wisdom of its most-valued employees.

The HR Answer Book: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals, 2nd Edition

Featuring a powerful combination of proven strategies and breaking, must-know information, The HR Answer Book is an invaluable and practical reference for both human resources practitioners and any professionals involved in hiring and managing staff. Organized by topic in an accessible question-and-answer format, the book has been fully updated to reflect changes to every facet of human resources and employee relations. Veteran employment attorney Smith and HR consultant Mazin offer clear, powerful, plain-English responses to all your most pressing questions on more than 200 targeted topics.

The ROI of Human Capital

Now in a brand new edition, The ROI of Human Capital provides you with a complete, reliable method for measuring the contributions of your people to corporate profit. Fully updated with new metrics, this long trusted resource offers a rare blend of management expertise and quantitative measurements, showing you how to gauge human costs and productivity at three critical levels.

The New HR Analytics

Now Fitz-enz uncovers the most exciting and promising development in HR today: actually predicting the monetary value of future human capital investments through analytics. This is a new and vastly improved way of mapping out organizational needs, particularly in the wake of layoffs and economic turmoil, as organizations recover and rebuild for the future. The New HR Analytics supplies the principles, practices, and worksheets you need to thoroughly grasp and apply HCM:21®, the author’s four-phase predictive management model. Original research conducted by 30 HR practitioners and global thought leaders details their experiences translating human capital analytics into action.

The New Corporate Facts of Life

Based on interviews with top executives and thought leaders—including John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises; Kurt Kuehn, CFO of UPS; G. P. “Bud” Peterson, President of Georgia Institute of Technology; and John Gardner, Chief Sustainability Officer for Novelis—the book recounts how leading-edge companies have already taken steps to harness the New Corporate Facts of Life to devise innovative and responsible solutions that benefit society and the bottom line.