Skip to main content

Metrics

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Human Capital Imperative
  • 1554 Accesses

Abstract

The key employee engagement measure is the percentage of the workforce who are engaged—that is, committed to delivering the vision and mission of the organisation—or disengaged. The importance of the measure has been explained in earlier chapters.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49121-9_23

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Absence Measurement and Management Factsheet’ Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (October 2015).

    Google Scholar 

  • Carty, M. (2017, January). Essential People Analytics: Seven Key HR Metrics for 2017. XpertHR Benchmarking.

    Google Scholar 

  • Health and Safety Executive. (2001, December). A Guide to Measuring Health and Safety Performance. www.hse.gov.uk

  • Marr, B. (2014). 25 Need to Know Key Performance Indicators. Financial Times Publishing.

    Google Scholar 

  • National Association of Pension Funds. (2015, June). Where is the Workforce in Corporate Reporting? www.napf.co.uk

  • Pension and Lifetime Saving Association. (2016, July). Understanding the Worth of the Workforce: A Stewardship Toolkit for Pension Funds. www.plsa.co.uk

  • ‘The 5 Most Important Things to Measure in HR’ presentation by Dr Fitz-enz at ‘The next generation of HR metrics’ conference (2013).

    Google Scholar 

  • Valuing Your Talent: Reporting Human Capital, Illustrating Your Company’s True Value Report , a collaborative project of UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Investors in People, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Chartered Management (2015).

    Google Scholar 

  • Vance, Robert J. (2006). A Guide to Understanding, Measuring and Increasing Engagement in Your Organisation. PhD published by Society for Human Resource Management.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Coppin, A. (2017). Metrics. In: The Human Capital Imperative. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49121-9_21

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics