The Essentials of Strategy (Business Literacy for HR Professionals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591398223 ISBN 13: 9781591398226

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2006

Synopsis

In an age of stiffening competition, everyone in an organisation must develop a strategic mind-set - by understanding the company's competitive strategy and helping the firm execute it. In this essential resource, readers will find guidelines for creating the HR initiatives, policies, and departmental structures that will ensure success. You're developing crucial strategies for numerous HR efforts—workforce planning and talent retention, compensation, training and development, and recruitment and selection. How do you ensure that these HR strategies deliver as promised - and help hone your company's competitive edge?

About this title

From the Back Cover

You're developing crucial strategies for numerous HR efforts-workforce
planning and talent retention, compensation, training and development, and
recruitment and selection. How do you ensure that these HR strategies
deliver as promised-and help hone your company's competitive edge? This
book offers potent guidelines, including ways to:
Adopt a strategic mind-set
Identify your organization's most pressing strategic challenges
Craft HR strategies that support high-level corporate strategy
Successfully execute your HR strategies
The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series

The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series educates HR professionals
at all levels in the principles, practices, and processes of business and
management. Developed in cooperation with the Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM) and drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School
Publishing and SHRM, these books provide a comprehensive overview of the
concepts, skills, and tools HR professionals need to be influential
strategic partners in their organizations.

Series Adviser: Wendy Bliss, J.D., SPHR, author of Legal, Effective
References: How to Give and Get Them, coauthor of The Employment
Termination Source Book: A Collection of Practical Samples, and contributor
to Human Resource Essentials (all published by the Society for Human
Resource Management), is an expert on human resource issues. She provides
HR consulting, executive coaching, and corporate training to clients
nationally.

OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES:
The Essentials of Managing Change and Transition
The Essentials of Finance and Budgeting
The Essentials of Negotiation
The Essentials of Power, Influence, and Persuasion
The Essentials of Project Management
The Essentials of Corporate Communications and Public Relations

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591398223
• ISBN 13: 9781591398226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352