A fresh perspective on the HR function, High-Impact HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets - people and organizational processes. High-Impact HR not only challenges HR's traditional role, but also provides practical strategies for transfo…
Designed from the perspective of program managers, this book uses a “how-to” approach in examining the basic techniques and practices of human resource/personnel management. Each technique/practice is set within a strategic framework focusing on achieving organizational goals, and corresponds to exercises that provide action learning, hands-on experience for readers. Chapter topics cove…
This strategic HR text is organized into two sections. The first section, Chapters 1-7, examines the context of strategic HR and develops a framework and conceptual model for the practice of strategic HR. The second section, Chapters 8-14, examines the actual practice and implementation of strategic HR through a discussion of strategic issues that need to be addressed while developing specific …
Does keeping up with all the business gurus and their latest theories make your head spin? Do you suffer “management theory overload” every time you walk into the business section of the bookstore? The marketplace is flooded with management experts claiming that if you apply their methods, your business will become spectacularly successful. But how can all of them be right? And how can …
In their book on leading organization transformation, , the authors described a new approach to transforming an organization. In this companion volume, they provide specific guidance for putting their change theory into practice, offering detailed tools, techniques, and step-by-step processes. Dean Anderson is a leader in the field of organization transformation. Linda Ackerman Anderson sparked…
This book is specifically about the interaction of leadership style, mindset and the change processes be - revolutionizes leaders' approach to transformational change. Shattering the myth that transformation can be managed, this book - parts of the Practicing Organization Development series - offers you new direction of thinking and ways of thinking and behaving that are essential for success…
Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Needed more today than at any time in the past, this immensely relevant bo…
Describes the key qualities managers must have to make their companies stronger in a changing market, and discusses the most common mistakes managers make in trying to change their companies