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We ask the HR function to manage away the volatility in our workforce. Volatility is bad. Excessive turnover, claims of any kind (harassment, workman's compensation, racism, sexism, etc...) and low morale are all bad for business. We ask HR to make all that go away.

So HR adopts highly conservative practices for dealing with the under performers, achieving diversity, improving morale and reducing claims. HR manages to the market norm - the "beta." Diversity targets, wage scales and benefit programs are all designed to be "in line with the market."

But CEOs want their employees to be better than their competitors employees. CEOs want "excess returns" from their people - performance that is better than the market in which they compete. They want the same positive "alpha" from their investments in human capital that they expect from their mutual funds.

This is the common HR/CEO paradox. HR is managing to the beta - the market index - while the CEO is seeking the alpha.

αlphaHR is an advisory service for the CEO and Chief HR Officer looking to address the paradox by adopting more alpha HR practices. Alpha HR practices are the ones designed to deliver excess returns on your investments in human capital.  To learn more about αlphaHR, please forward your request to info@TheDowGroup.biz