This book presents an international panel of expert contributors who offer their views on the state of HR and what to expect in the future. Topics covered include HR as a decision science, understanding and managing people, creating and adapting organizational culture, the effects of globalization, collaborative ventures, and investing in the next generation. Like its bestselling predecessor before it, The Future of Human Resource Management offers the very best thinking on the future of HR from the most respected leaders in the field. (cited from the book jacket)

Contents of this book are:
Section I : Understanding and managing people
Section II: Invest in the next generation of human resource professionalism
Section III: Learn to master and play new rules
Section IV: Discern, create, and adapt culture to business conditions
Section V: Rethink organizations as capabilities not structures
Section VI: See HR as a decision science and bring discipline to it
Section VII: Create mutually collaborating ventures
Section VIII: Responding to social expectation and public policy expectationn and public policy and the renewed importance of ethichs
Section IX: Live globally, act locally