Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line: How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable Growth - Hardcover

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. 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 III This 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.

TO MEET THE ENVIRONMENTAL, social, and economic challenges facing us, organizations must become more sustainable. Employees play a central role in that transformation, yet they are vastly underutilized in most company's sustainability initiatives, as are the HR departments and professionals who should be helping to engage them.

Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line shows leaders how they can leverage human resources and sustainability to improve business performance. It provides insights and guidance along with strategies, tactics, and tools that business leaders, sustainability specialists, and HR professionals can use to:

• change the organization's culture so that it supports sustainability and drives core business objectives and success
• increase employee engagement though shared values
• measure and enhance the business impact of sustainability, including the value generated by a more engaged workforce
• create organizational capabilities to meet the environmental, social, and economic challenges of today and tomorrow
• embed sustainability into the organization's workforce lifecycle processes
• leverage sustainability to help achieve traditional HR objectives like diversity, health care cost containment, and a more productive workforce

Author Andrew Savitz shows how forward-thinking companies of every size and in every industry are using the unique capabilities of human resources to improve their financial, social, and environmental performance. Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line is an essential roadmap for HR, sustainability professionals, and business people who seek to lead their organizations into the future.