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Building More Effective Organizations: HR Management and Performance in Practice

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What I seeking was a comprehensive guide to improving effectiveness and performance in organisations. It achieves this in parts hence the four possibly three star rating. Starting with the strengths:

* The first chapter on Building more effective organisations brings together what is known about achieving high levels of organisation performance.This is done very well in a concise format and the book is worth buying for this alone.

* The material in chapter 6 on leadership development is excellent and covers current thinking and best practice in how to connect your leadership strategy to Business strategy.

In terms of weaknesses:

* The coverage of how to build more effective teams in chapter 7 left me with a sense of what value does does this section of the book add to the readers knowledge/understanding? My conclusion is very little it is hard going and you feel that you have entered a world that is far removed from the practioner on the ground.You wonder why this was included,have the editors really thought through the reasons for including this contribution.

* The lack of coverage of how to design an effective organisation design eg structures/processes etc that enhances organisation performance was disappointing. For example the work of Jay Galbraith and others in this field was not given attention.If you produce a book on building more effective organisations this is a major omission.

* The coverage of health and well-being is overdone, in many areas it feels more like a text on counselling/occupational psychology, the balance is not entirely right. Did anyone actually test the range of topics on potential readers?

In summary the HR practioner will find this useful. Would I reccomend it to a manager looking to improve organisation effectiveness, I am less sure about this.

Stan Felstead. Interchange Resources UK