ABSTRACT

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.

part |162 pages

The Need for Strategic Human Resources

part |175 pages

Strategies for Managing and Developing Talent

part |66 pages

Human Resources as a Strategic Function

chapter |24 pages

Skills for HR Strategists

chapter |16 pages

Working Across Boundaries

chapter |24 pages

Global HRM

part |84 pages

Implementing Strategic Change

chapter |23 pages

Mergers and Acquisitions

chapter |17 pages

Creating a Learning Culture

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion