What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value?
In the new and extensively updated edition of her ground-breaking book, Linda Holbeche answers this question and provides the tools and insights to help HR managers and directors add value to the organization by implementing effective HR initiatives that are aligned to core business strategies.
This edition includes new chapters, fresh case questions, specific sector ‘twists’ like healthcare, the university sector, travel and tourism, alongside a greater mix of international case studies. Taking a more analytical approach than previous works, Holbeche discusses and explores a number of contemporary academic debates.
Learn how you can strengthen and prove the relationship between people strategy and business success through your approach to performance and development and impress at the highest levels with this new edition of an HR classic.
Author(s): Linda Holbeche
Edition: 3
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 507
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Part I: The need for strategic human resources
1 Strategic HRM theory
2 The evolution of the HR function
3 The changing context for SHRM
4 A strategic agenda for HR
5 HR in the digital age
6 Crafting HR strategy
Part II: Strategies for talent
7 Workforce planning and recruitment strategies
8 Employee engagement and well-being
9 Managing and rewarding for high performance
10 Strategies for developing people
11 Supporting flexible career development
12 High flyers and succession planning
13 Global HRM
Part III: Building strategic change capability
14 Transforming organisations by design
15 Bringing about culture change
16 Designing sustainably agile and resilient organisations
17 Learning across boundaries
18 Conclusion
Index
