Becoming a Better Value Creator: How to Improve the Company's Bottom Line--and Your Own

CHAPTER SUMMARY

This chapter went into detail on how HR personnel can use the five secrets of value creators. The meaning of value can sometimes get blurred for HR because of a strong focus on cost containment and transactional services. Although these Control quadrant activities are important, they distract HR from its core mission of creating the appropriate organization culture, a Collaborate quadrant activity. Moreover, HR can play a powerful role in priming the organization's growth pump.

Doing this effectively requires the appropriate multiple perspectives on value creation. Standing in the way are four impediments: (1) HR's perception of itself as a staff support function, (2) the belief by those in HR that they are HR specialists rather ...