Value-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing Your Consultancy Role
This book demonstrates how HR strategy can be positioned and implemented to generate real shareholder value, using case studies from BT, Dyson, Marks and Spencer and others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Value-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing Your Consultancy Role
Part 1: HR Strategy
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Links of HR Strategy and Corporate Strategy
- Chapter 3: Linking HR and Corporate Strategy: Dyson Appliances
- Chapter 4: Organizational Scenarios
- Chapter 5: HR Strategy and Competitive Strategy at Marks & Spencer
Overview
Human Resource (HR) strategy is now widely recognized as being an important and perhaps essential way of developing organizations to meet increased competitive challenges. Yet many managers (including HR managers) have only a broad, and at times vague, notion of what it actually is.
Even fewer managers have much of an idea of how to derive an HR strategy, and of how it will be used and in practice, an even higher proportion have only the vaguest concept of how it can add value, especially in economic terms.
HR strategy thus seems currently to fall into the category of being a nice-to-have management process. In many companies it appears to fall into the zone of MBO ( Management by Ornaments ), its role being principally to make HR departments feel more comfortable about their direction and position, or as something to tick off as done by the Chief Executive.
Indeed, the very assumption that HR strategy is principally owned by HR departments is itself something to be challenged. In this book we take the view that HR strategy is not something to be owned solely or primarily by HR departments, but rather by senior line management collectively. The HR department s role is therefore to facilitate its development and...
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