Strategic Human Resource Management (a Guide To Action)

Strategic human resource management has been taken up by academics, consultants and practitioners alike. However, the integration of human resource strategy with overall business strategy is often easier in theory than in practice. Strategic Human Resource Management provides a bridge between theory and practice and offers a guide to both formulating human resource strategies and implementing them. Substantially updated, this fourth edition of an indispensable text includes new material that reflects important developments in HR strategies linked with those issues that affect HRM on a day-to-day basis, including • Human resource management; • Corporate social responsibility; • Organization development; • Engagement; • Talent management. Case studies, checklists, practical examples and a special strategic HR toolkit make this book an extremely practical resources for all those who are involved in putting complex strategy into practice, in order to effect positive and productive change. Human resource strategies are only as good as the effective action they produce. Formulating them is the easy part. The difficulties begin when they have to be implemented. This book is an invaluable aid in converting rhetoric into reality. About Author: Michael Armstrong is a former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an independent management consultant with extensive experience in the aerospace and food industries and in publishing, and is the author of many best-selling titles published by Kogan Page, including A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, A Handbook of Management Techniques, Reward Management, Paying for Contribution, The Handbook of Management and Leadership and How to be an Even Better Manager.