Transformational HR: How Human Resources Can Create Value and Impact Business Strategy - Softcover

Timms, Perry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749481323 ISBN 13: 9780749481322

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2017

Synopsis

In our increasingly fast and competitive world, HR professionals are uniquely placed to prepare an organization for lasting success. Pioneers are leading the way using the latest HR developments such as Lean UX, holacracy, futurology and work-as-a-platform. Transformational HR shows HR professionals how to unleash this potential and use these advances to make an impact on business strategy.

This book puts transformational HR in context, exploring what has and hasn't worked. It sets out a vision of what HR can be, providing examples of and lessons from HR thought leaders who have begun to transform their workplaces. In addition to presenting numerous examples, Transformational HR provides tools, models and advice for HR professionals aspiring to become more finely-tuned, responsive, forward-thinking and impact-led. Packed with global cases studies from companies around the world, including the US, France, Australia, Slovenia and South Africa, it is a blueprint for turning the HR function and the organizations in which they operate into powerhouses.

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Review

"Transformational HR challenges even the most experienced HR practitioner with the opportunity to awaken new thoughts and re-think how they lead their people team and their businesses in to the future." (Iain Lewis, HR Director, and Anna Snelling, Head of Learning and Development, Howdens Joinery Ltd 2017-08-24)

"Perry puts the 'human' back in HR, through a people revolution that sees employees at the helm of true competitive advantage. A sustainable future awaits organisations who choose to board this transformative HR rocket." (Google State Manager, Creative Activation 2017-08-24)

"Perry is an HR guru like no other. This offers unique insights which go beyond excellence. Transformational indeed but also visionary, credible and insightful. A crucial blueprint read and a must have for every HR Professional. Powerful, relevant and engaging!" (Ruth Sharpe, HRM and Management Development Consultant 2017-08-24)

"Perry shines a light on the cross roads that the profession is facing and offers a new path and way of thinking about HR which is innovative and exciting, whilst staying true to the roots of the HR profession. If you want to add new tools to your toolkit and have new ways of approaching HR in today's complex environment, then reading Transformational HR will help you to broaden and deepen your thinking." (Sarah Morgan, Director of Organizational Development, NHS 2017-08-21)

"At a time when most HR leaders are scrambling for a seat at the coveted table, Perry brings us all a transformational HR model that lights a bonfire under that table. Giving thoughtful consideration to what has gone before, reading this book will give you the tools to enable you to be truly innovative HR practitioner. Say goodbye to the HR clones now." (Sara Duxbury, Business Psychologist, Carter Corson 2017-09-22)

"Drawing on years of experience at the business coal face, Perry is able to cut through the noise and demonstrate that we can control our own futures. What's important is valuing people and managing them in a way that creates Good Work, to enable them and their organisations to shine." (Lesley Giles, Director, The Work Foundation 2017-08-21)

"How to create organizational value and generate better business results in a new world opened to employees' autonomy, intelligent digitalization, constant change and transformation? Perry's book works to answer this using a new model of HR called T-HR (Transformational HR) based on cooperation, joint responsibility, as well as sharing knowledge and mutual inspiration while applying all modern methods, tools and apps available in the real and digital world." (Marta Machalska, Founder and CEO, i-Pro e-learning 2017-08-21)

Book Description

Provides a blueprint for HR professionals to become the transformational powerhouse they have the potential to be for their organizations

Includes examples from HR pioneers - who they are and why they're succeeding - alongside case studies from a range of global organizations

Covers the latest developments in HR including Lean UX, holacracy, futurology, work-as-a-platform, Theory-U, conscious capitalism, generational differences and work in the gig economy

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0749481323
• ISBN 13: 9780749481322
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280