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HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred [Paperback]

Paul Kearns (Author)
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0750657685 978-0750657686 July 31, 2003 1
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


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"..Paul 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.."
Denis W Barnard - HR Zone 13th April 2004

"Paul Kearns has written an essential resource for any HR leader. If you want to be a successful HR strategist, you must read this book!"

Dean Spitzer, Ph.D., Managing Consultant, IBM Business Consulting, Services, and author of "SuperMotivation".

'....Kearns challenges human resource managers to face the business issues in their organization and to respond to them in a strategic way. The message is not "just follow these three steps" or "just copy what Southwest has done", it is to take charge and deliver what your company needs from HR."

David Creelman, Chief of Content & Research, HR.com

"For anyone who has ever asked "What is wrong with HR?", this book outlines a new way for HR in the 21st century. A truly inspiring read!"

Asta Bjarnadottir,PhD,Assistant professor, School of Business, Reykjavik University, Iceland

'Paul Kearns has written a book to challenge HR professionals, it is a thought-provoking work on HR strategy that HR professionals should read and act upon'

Neil Roden, Group Director, Human Resources, Royal Bank of Scotland

Book Description

An HR Strategy turns the way you manage your people into a business strategy

Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (July 31, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0750657685
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750657686
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,959,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A sine qua non for business people and serious HR practitioners, August 24, 2005
This review is from: HR Strategy: Business Focused Individually Centred (Paperback)
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.
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The importance of strategic thinking in a business context has been well established for a very long time. Read the first page
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high value organization, competence frameworks, employee engagement, maturity scale
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Watson Wyatt, Personnel Today, Jack Welch, Peter Parker, The Times, Financial Times, Michael Porter, The Prince, Lord Weinstock, Matthew Harding, The Sunday Times
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