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Informationen zum Autor 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. Follow news of sustainability at www.getsustainable.net Klappentext HR Professional's guide to creating a strategically sustainable organizationEmployees 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* Forward by Edward Lawler IIIThis 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. Zusammenfassung HR Professional's 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Authors xi Foreword by Edward E. Lawler iii xiii Preface xvii Part One: Transformation, Talent, and Human Resources 1 1 Transforming GE: Building a Sustainable Corporation from the People Up 3 Ecomagination: Why GE is Turning Green 8 People Movers: How HR is Leading the Way Forward 12 Healthymagination: Improving Health Care for GE Employees and for Society 14 Eight Lessons for Business Leaders, Sustainability Professionals, and HR 20 The New Winning Strategy: Leveraging HR for Sustainable Growth 26 2 Sustainability: The Global Challenge, the Business Opportunity, and the People Factor 29 Sustainability Milestones: The Brundtland Commission and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 30 The Age of Sustainability: Trends and Realities 33 The Triple Bottom Line: How to Define and Measure Sustainable Growth 40 The Sweet Spot: How to Develop Sustainable Business Strategies 46 Sustainability and Profitability: How to Grow Your Sweet Spots 50 Transformation: The Business Benefits of Sustainability 54 Revving Up: Where HR Meets ...
