Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line

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.