

Kris Wauters is a Belgian change, transformation, CX/EX and leadership practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in commercial, operational and senior management roles. He has worked across insurance, media, telecommunications and technology, with senior roles at companies including Verizon, Cisco and Orange Belgium.
Meer over Kris WautersThe New H(R->A) Manager
The End of Human Resources — and the Rise of Human Assets
Paperback Engels 2026 1e druk 9789083646831Samenvatting
If people are your greatest asset,
why are you still managing them like costs?
The Human Resources model is broken.
It promised to make people strategic. Instead, it turned them into headcount, FTEs, utilization rates, cost centres, and optimization targets.
This book is a manifesto for everyone who knows something no longer feels right at work — and wants a practical way to build something better.
The New HRA Manager replaces the Resource mindset with the Asset mindset: a new operating system for attracting, integrating, developing, retaining, and honouring the people who create real business value.
INSIDE, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
· expose the hidden cost of treating people as resources
· build an Employee Promise that actually means something
· evolve culture through what gets rewarded, tolerated, and punished
· redesign the full employee lifecycle through the Asset lens
· use metrics, language, human skills, ADKAR, and Gung Ho to scale the change
Trefwoorden
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: THE RESOURCE TRAP
Chapter 1 – The Real Price of Treating People as Resources
Chapter 2 – Why the Old HR Playbook Is Failing Companies and People
PART 2: THE ASSET MINDSET
Chapter 3 – From Resource to Asset: The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything
PART 3: THE NEW HA OPERATING SYSTEM
Chapter 4 – The New HA Strategy: What Promise Are You Making to Your People?
Chapter 5 – The New HA Culture: How Assets Actually Show Up (and Stay)
PART 4: THE NEW HA PRACTICES ACROSS THE FULL EMPLOYEE LIFECYCLE
Chapter 6 – Attract & Recruit: Acquiring Assets, Not Filling Seats
Chapter 7 – Onboard & Integrate: Turning New Assets into High-Value Contributors from Day One
Chapter 8 – Develop & Grow: Investing in Assets So They Compound
Chapter 9 – Retain & Engage: Keeping Your Best Assets Because They Choose to Stay
Chapter 10 – When Assets Leave: Dignified, Brand-Protecting Exits That Strengthen the Culture
PART 5: LEADING THE CHANGE
Chapter 11 – The New HA Manager’s Toolkit: Metrics, Language, Conversations, and Power Moves
Chapter 12 – Scaling the Asset Mindset: From One Team to Company-Wide Transformation
CONCLUSION – THE ASSET FLYWHEEL
Selected Sources and References
Appendix - Reader’s Roadmap
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- economie
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- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
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- non-profit
- ondernemen
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- psychologie
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