Strategic Human Resource Management: A Guide to Action - Softcover

Armstrong, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749445114 ISBN 13: 9780749445119

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2006

Synopsis

<p>There is often a gap between the rhetoric of Strategic Human Resource Management and the reality of strategy in action. This highly regarded book provides unique practical guidance on actually implementing the complex HR strategies that have been formulated by many practitioners, academics and consultants in the past few years.<br><br>Fully updated, this edition has been largely re-written to incorporate the latest thinking, research and practice on strategic Human Resource Management. It contains completely revised chapters on HRM, HR strategy, the formulation and implementation of strategy, roles in strategic HRM and strategic reward.</p>

About this title

About the Author

<p><b>Michael Armstrong</b> is the UK's bestselling author of Human Resource Management books including <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice</i></b>, <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management</i>, </b><i><b>Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice</b> </i>and <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management </i></b>and several other titles published by Kogan Page. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into twenty-one languages. <br><br><b>Michael Armstrong</b> is a Companion and former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the co-founder and a managing partner of E-Reward, one of the UK's first websites dedicated solely to reward management. Prior to this he was an HR director of a publishing company and an independent management consultant. He is based in London, UK.</p>

From the Inside Flap

â Guides the reader smoothly through the complete business model.
A book that does a whole lot more than just what it says on the cover.â

The Lawyer

Strategic human resource management has been taken up by academics, consultants and practitioners alike. However, the integration of human resource strategy with overall business strategy is often easier in theory than in practice. Strategic Human Resource Management provides a bridge between theory and practice and offers a guide to both formulating human resource strategies and implementing them.

This new edition has been fully updated and revised to incorporate the latest thinking, research and practice in this important field. Using case studies, checklists and practical examples, it explores:

â ¢ current strategic human resource management theory, providing a useful background against which action can be taken;
â ¢ the practicalities of formulating and implementing human resource strategies, how they work and what the human resource function contributes;
â ¢ organizational and functional strategies from a practical point of view.

Human resource strategies are only as good as the effective action they produce. Formulating them is the easy part. The difficulties begin when they have to be implemented. This book is an invaluable aid in converting rhetoric into reality.

Michael Armstrong is a Fellow of, and Chief Examiner (Employee Reward)
for, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an independent management consultant with extensive experience in the aerospace and food industries and in publishing, and is the author of many best-selling titles published
by Kogan Page, including A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice,
A Handbook of Management Techniques, Reward Management, Paying for Contribution,
The Handbook of Management and Leadership and How to be an Even Better Manager.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

<p>Part 1) The basis of Strategic Human Resource Management; The concept of HRM; The concept of strategy; The concept of strategic HRM; The process of strategic HRM<br><br> Part 2) The practice of human resource management; Formulating and implementing HR strategy; Strategic HRM in action; The strategic contribution of HRM to organizational success; The strategic role of the new HR function<br><br> Part 3) Organizational strategies; Strategies for organizational development; Strategies for culture management; Change management strategies; Strategies for developing the employment relationship<br><br> Part 4) Functional strategies; Employee Resourcing strategy; Strategies for managing performance; Strategic Human Resource Development; Reward strategy; Employee relations strategy.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749445114
• ISBN 13: 9780749445119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 208