HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred addresses the two key themes of translating business strategy into a workable, measurable HR strategy while simultaneously tapping into the needs and motivational patterns of individual employees in order to unleash their maximum value. The ultimate aim of any HR strategy is to design the highest value organization.Strategy may be a notoriously difficult topic to pin down but the author produces both a wide-angle view and specific examples of what a real HR strategy looks like in different organizational contexts. This is a book that covers the theory but swiftly moves on to the question of how anyone might actually start to develop a high value HR strategy. It shows the key ingredients and practical steps involved in implementation.* Provides a total re-appraisal and critique of the theory and practice of HR strategy* Incorporates references to companies such as British Airways, GE, Microsoft, Sears, Siebel, Toyota and Verizon* Demonstrates how different organizations have to develop their own unique HR strategies

The HR Value Proposition by Ulrich, David

A sine qua non for business people and serious HR practitioners
For some time now, Paul Kearns has contributed some very stimulating articles in various management and HR journals. In this book, he sets out to clarify the direct lines of sight needed to ensure that the HR and Business strategies are entwined in the same strand of DNA, and along the way comments quite unequivocally on some of the perceptions of what is deemed to be "HR strategy" and some of the current fads that are considered to be part of it. Kearns has produced a gem of a book, accessible, written without jargon and with a logical and analytical challenge to much of what is happening in HR departments today. As the cover states, this is "...a mandatory read for anyone with HR in their job title". This is not going to make comfortable reading for many senior HR people, either on the Board or aspiring to it, and I would advise them to get hold of this before the CEO or the CFO, or risk facing some very awkward questions. For anyone setting out in a career in HR this is an indispensable handbook, and I await his next work with anticipation.