Hr Strategy: Business Focused, Individually Centred

By Paul Kearns

Book Overview

Addressing the two key themes of translating business strategy into a workable, measurable HR strategy, this volume simultaneously examines the needs and motivational patterns of individual employees... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750657685
• ISBN13: 9780750657686
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

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.