Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, Second Edition Summary:

  

By Linda Holbeche

Publisher:   Butterworth-Heinemann

Number Of Pages:   496

Publication Date:   2009-03-16

ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0750680172

ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780750680172

Product Description: 

What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value? In the new 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. Featuring updated profiles and case studies from top HR strategists who have used their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, 2nd edition provides inspiration and guidance on how to apply the theory to challenges in your organization. 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. Linda Holbeche is Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Linda chairs and speaks at meetings and conferences worldwide and appeared at number six in Human Resources magazine's HR most influential 2008 roll call of top industry thinkers. * New edition of HR best-seller by influential industry thinker Linda Holbeche 

* Essential insights and examples demonstrate how you can strengthen and prove the relationship between people strategy and business success through your approach to performance and development

* Case studies and vignettes on managing change, influencing organizational development, identifying and retaining talent, and leadership development provide inspiration and guidance on how to apply the theory to challenges in your organization

Summary: Anachronism of the Year Award

Rating: 1

A bland book with little of interest, unless you work for a government department in a third-world country. Reads like an academic treatise from a second-year student in 1990. The ideas are trite and lack substance. For example, "dealing with poor performance" is discussed in a single paragraph. "Long term incentives and share ownership", too, is glossed over in a micro-paragraph about trends with nary a reference to shareholder value and rewards. This book is an excellent example of the lead-lag chasm between American HR practices and Europe's archaic thinking. 

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