Product Description

The leading thinker in the field of human resources—and author of the bestselling HR Champions—outlines a blueprint that will make HR professionals true strategic partners in their firms.

Dave Ulrich’s HR Champions defined the agenda for HR professionals in the 1990s. That book has gone on to become one of the Press’ strongest sellers, with nearly 120,000 copies sold to date. This book lays out a new agenda for HR in the 21st century, revealing how HR pros can transform themselves into corporate strategists who create value not just for employees and managers—but for investors and customers as well.

HR’s leading thinkers provide a blueprint for the future. The international bestseller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive table was only the beginning. Today’s HR leaders must also bring substantial value to that table.

Drawing on their sixteen-year study of over 29,000 HR professionals and line managers, leading HR experts Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank propose The HR Value Proposition. The authors argue that HR value creation requires a deep understanding of external business realities and how value is defined by key stakeholders both inside and outside the company.

They provide practical tools and worksheets for leveraging this knowledge to create HR practices, build organisational capabilities, design HR strategy, and marshal resources that create value for customers, investors, executives, and employees. Written by the field’s premier trailblazers, this book charts the path HR professionals must take to help lead their organizations into the future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31442 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 316 pages

Argent
Timely reading – recommended, and not just for the HR teams.

Review
Timely reading – recommended, and not just for the HR teams. (Argent )

About the Author
Dave Ulrich is a professor at the University of Michigan, School of Business and the author of twelve books and more than a hundred articles on the subject of human resources.

Wayne Brockbank is a clinical professor of business at the University of Michigan, School of Business, the author of award-winning papers on HR strategy, and an adviser to top global organizations. (20050805)

Customer Reviews

The full text on bringing HR up to date
This book is ideal for the high-level HR executive who wants to redevelop or transform an HR department into a forward-thinking, strategic part of the parent company. While all HR professionals should read it for the knowledge it offers, creating a value proposition for HR is not simple, as authors Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank would be the first to acknowledge. Even the most innovative, progressive HR professionals would find this extensive menu of changes hard to activate independently. Creating an HR value proposition is an intense, all encompassing reform that requires support and direction from the top down. While HR professionals at any level can see the relevance, wisdom and potential of this new blueprint, a CEO and an HR department head would have to march together to carry out the book’s mission: implementing an HR transformation totally aligned with corporate strategy. We recommend this tremendous resource to any HR manager or adviser; the higher you are on the HR totem pole, the more you need to read it.