Economics for HR: What is Value and How Do People Create It? March 28, 2012

5 General/Strategic Recertification Credits

Organizations achieve success by maximizing resources and minimizing costs and liabilities as they work toward clearly targeted, appropriate goals. HR professionals who apply specific HR knowledge within the context of core business and economic concepts provide added value to the organization. Understand how value is tied to an organization's people. Focusing on core concepts, current events and creative applications, you will learn:

* What we mean by economic terms such as assets, value, capital, supply and demand, market, reward, risk, etc., and why you should care.
* A new way to think about "human capital" and how to more effectively deploy it beyond "human resources." In other words, how to "think like a CEO."
* Innovative ways to consider the worth and impact of intangibles that cannot be valued in cash, like motivation, creativity and leadership.
* Why the macro economics and politics of the wider global market must be taken into account in your organization.

About the Presenter
Jan Wilson, MA, SPHR-CA, GPHR is an HR leader and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of HR. She manages her own CRM software application consulting business and is a past president and board member of NCHRA. Jan is an adjunct professor of HR at Golden Gate University and teaches the PHR/SPHR and the GPHR certification preparation classes for NCHRA. She is a successful personal investor and entrepreneur, Jan's business advice to companies large and small in high tech, biotech, manufacturing, services, finance and non-profit has covered topics ranging from day-to-day operations through integrated business analysis and strategy. Her focus is on improving organizational effectiveness through the optimization of employees' contributions, including successful use of IT decision tools.

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