HR to the Rescue: case studies of HR solutions to business challenges (Improving Human Performance) [Hardcover]

Edward M. Mone (Editor), Manuel London Ph.D. (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0884153975 | ISBN-13: 978-0884153979 | Publication Date: October 13, 1998

By looking over the shoulders of fourteen forward-thinking, proactive HR professionals, you will gain a lifetime's worth of experience. These experts reveal how you can demonstrate your value to your organization by offering human resource solutions to organizational problems.

Find out how these practicing human resource professionals went beyond their traditional HR roles and actually helped shape the futures of companies such as:
* Thermo King
* Colgate-Palmolive
* Swiss Bank Corporation-Warburg
* Den Danske Bank
* Oticon
* Berlex Laboratories

'HR to the rescue' tells you in complete detail exactly how the fourteen practitioners helped their companies achieve their strategic business objectives. You will see how they diagnosed the situations, determined what HR could contribute, designed new programs and processes to drive and sustain behavior change, and worked with organization leaders to ensure the success of their change management efforts.

These insightful cases provide you with a true-to-life perspective. They illustrate what really happens in this imperfect world of organizations, where things rarely go as planned.

Learn the lessons these practitioners have to share - and then step in, both affirmed and refreshed, to rescue your business with effective, integrated HR solutions.

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Find out how these practicing human resource professionals went beyond their traditional HR roles and actually helped shape the futures of companies such as:* Thermo King* Colgate-Palmolive* Swiss Bank Corporation-Warburg* Den Danske Bank* Oticon* Berlex Laboratories'HR to the rescue' tells you in complete detail exactly how the fourteen practitioners helped their companies achieve their strategic business objectives. You will see how they diagnosed the situations, determined what HR could contribute, designed new programs and processes to drive and sustain behavior change, and worked with organization leaders to ensure the success of their change management efforts.These insightful cases provide you with a true-to-life perspective. They illustrate what really happens in this imperfect world of organizations, where things rarely go as planned.Learn the lessons these practitioners have to share - and then step in, both affirmed and refreshed, to rescue your business with effective, integrated HR solutions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884153975
• ISBN-13: 978-0884153979
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,250,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Major Lessons Learned by HR Professionals", January 1, 2000

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Turgay BUGDACIGIL (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HR to the Rescue: case studies of HR solutions to business challenges (Improving Human Performance) (Hardcover)

"Many business leaders are realizing that", Mone and London write in their Preface "HR practitioners can offer much more to the enterprise than maintaining personnel transactions such as payroll, benefits, and compensation. As important as these functions are, executives and HR practitioners alike increasingly recognize the transformational nature of human resource development functions. Human resource development is a key component of successful organizational transformation. For example, HR personnel get involved in determining job requirements to make the business successful, in recruiting and hiring people who match the new and emerging skill demands, and in training these new employees and managers, as well as existing personnel to ensure they have to required knowledge and skills. Significant changes in how business is conducted entail concomitant changes in how employees are attracted, developed, maintained, and rewarded."

Thus, emphasis of this book can be summarized as is demonstrating how human resource development principles, strategies, and programs can ensure the requisite business transformations to meet significant business challenges facing corporate leaders and human resources professionals.

Through case studies written by contributors, HR professionals learn some major lessons such as :

* work collaboratively with senior management during periods of strategically driven change.

* recognize transformational change and its impact on the organization.

* ensure leaders are visible and engaged.

* build commitment to the change in other parts of the organization.

* form partnership between business managers, HR, and external consultants.

* be flexible when introducing a new process.

* focus on the end result, not the survey.

* include a communication phase before launching each initiative.

* involve the people in the organization who are most critical to the operating success of the initiative.

* establish uniform criteria for identifying high-potential people.

* reward the high-performers in the organization.

* use technology to support HR efforts.

* help people overcome their resistance to learning and using new technology.

* help CEO become the HR leader.

* recognize that changes takes time.

I highly recommend this invaluable study to all HR professionals.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book to infuse HR folks with renewed purpose & resolve., March 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: HR to the Rescue: case studies of HR solutions to business challenges (Improving Human Performance) (Hardcover)

HR is too often viewed as playing a strictly support role, often that of the majordomo or naysayer, in the drama of business, strategy and organization. But the ten case studies presented in this intriguing volume demonstrate how crucial HR can be to enterprise success! In these pages you will learn how practitioners have had a profound impact on their organizations. The cases detail specific ways in which HR has played a vital, strategic role. The editors provide a helpful set of diagnostic questions to aid in fathoming each case. Additionally, the key features of each case are highlighted in one-page tables that make the content further accessible. This book can infuse an HR practitioner with a new sense of purpose and resolve, and a renewed realization of the pivotal value of human resource management. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, hrconsultant.com and Stern & Associates.