Essentials of Strategy

HUMAN RESOURCES The HR professional's guide to crafting and executing effective strategies You're developing crucial strategies for numerous HR efforts-workforce planning and talent retention, compensation, training and development, and recruitment and selection. How do you ensure that these HR strategies deliver as promised-and help hone your company's competitive edge? This book offers potent guidelines, including ways to: Adopt a strategic mind-set Identify your organization's most pressing strategic challenges Craft HR strategies that support high-level corporate strategy Successfully execute your HR strategies The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series educates HR professionals at all levels in the principles, practices, and processes of business and management. Developed in cooperation with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and SHRM, these books provide a comprehensive overview of the concepts, skills, and tools HR professionals need to be influential strategic partners in their organizations. Series Adviser: Wendy Bliss, J.D., SPHR, author of Legal, Effective References: How to Give and Get Them, coauthor of The Employment Termination Source Book: A Collection of Practical Samples, and contributor to Human Resource Essentials (all published by the Society for Human Resource Management), is an expert on human resource issues. She provides HR consulting, executive coaching, and corporate training to clients nationally. OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES: The Essentials of Managing Change and Transition The Essentials of Finance and Budgeting The Essentials of Negotiation The Essentials of Power, Influence, and Persuasion The Essentials of Project Management The Essentials of Corporate Communications and Public RelationsSociety for Human Resource Management Staff is the author of 'Essentials of Strategy', published 2006 under ISBN 9781591398226 and ISBN 1591398223.