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High Performance HR: Leveraging Human Resources for Competitive Advantage

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About the Book

A fresh perspective on the HR function, High Performance HRchallenges the traditional view of HR as a service function andreplaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal businessaccountable for the return on investment of essential corporateassets--people and organizational processes. HighPerformance HR not only challenges HR's traditional role,but also provides practical strategies for leveraging HR'srole, priorities, accountabilities, and organizational design. Get your copy today!

Table of Contents:
PREFACE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. PART ONE: The Challenge. CHAPTER ONE: The Irish Elk. The Focus for HR's Transformation. The Growth Curve. Phase One— The Start-up Phase. Phase Two— The Growth Phase. Phase Three— The Mature Phase. Respond to Company Risk with HR Professional Discipline. Summary CHAPTER TWO: An HR Business within a Business. Business and Organizations. Becoming an HR Business within a Business. Align HR To Deliver Value to the External Customer. Redefining HR's Internal Client Relationships. All Roads Lead to the External Customer. Summary. CHAPTER THREE: The Discipline of Abandonment. Why Disciplined Abandonment Is Important. Leadership and Abandonment. Abandonment and Removing "Noise" from the System. People, Organizational, and Business Processes. An Exercise in Abandonment. Three Kinds of Abandonment for HR. The Discipline of the "Tie Goes to the Runner" in Abandonment. Life After Abandonment. Summary. PART TWO: People And Organizational Processes. CHAPTER FOUR: Core People Processes. The "Hatch" People Processes. The "Match" People Processes. Performance Development. Compensation and Recognition. Employee Services. The "Dispatch" People Processes. Delivering Core and Strategic Process Outcomes. Summary. CHAPTER FIVE: Organizational Value-Add. T: Technology as an Enabler to Allow Many of the New HR Activities to Occur. L: Learning— Building a Continuous Learning Environment. C: Consulting to Enhance Organizational Performance. A Final Note on Organizational Value-Add Processes. Summary. PART THREE: Strategic Business Processes. CHAPTER SIX: Business Transformation: An Overview. Choosing the Priority Risks and Opportunities. HR Professional Must Be Strategic Partners to Deliver the Business Transformation. Two Contrasting Examples of HR's Potential Role in Business Transformation. The Next Four Chapters. Summary. CHAPTER SEVEN: Cultivate a Flexible Culture. How to Cultivate a Flexible Culture. Create and Live the Shared Values. Develop Leaders Who Inspire Shared Meaning in the Work. Foster Organizational Elasticity. Insure Rewards and Recognition Support the Flexible Culture. Human Resources Enables the Flexible Culture. Summary. CHAPTER EIGHT: Champion Strategic Alignment. The Five Areas of Strategic Alignment. 1. Alignment to the Vision of the Company. 2. Alignment with Other Strategic Teams and Changes within the Company. 3. Alignment to the Customer's Needs. 4. Alignment with Preferred Suppliers. 5. Internal Alignment within the Strategic Team. How to Fail at Strategic Alignment. HR Measures 360 Alignment. Human Resources Models Strategic Alignment. Summary. CHAPTER NINE: Implement Change and Transition. Change and Transition. The Process of Implementing Change and Transition. Element #1: Understand Competitive Forces and Customer Value. Element #2: Select Change Leaders and Define Accountabilities. Element #3: Identify the Preferred Future and the Urgency for the Change. Element #4: Engage Key Stakeholders and Identify Their Interests. Element #5: Plan the Change in Detail and Anticipate Contingencies. Element #6: Roll-Out: Communicate, Train and Help People Adjust to Gain Commitment to the Change. Element #7: Roll-In: Implement the Change and Make It Business As Usual. Element #8: Roll-On: Measure Results, Share Learnings and Continuously Improve. HR Applies the Implementing Change and Transition Process to Its Own Changes. Summary. CHAPTER TEN: Insure a Return on Investment in Human Capital. The Strategic Value of the Return on Investment in Human Capital. Identifying a Metric of Human Capital. Calculating the Investment Made in Human Capital. Implications of RIHC for the HR "People and Organizational Processes". The Assessment of the RIHC for Performance Development. HR Prepares Dynamic Reports on the Return on Investment in Human Capital. The HR Competencies Needed to Support RIHC Analysis. Benefits for HR When It Takes Accountability for RIHC. Barriers for HR in Leading the RIHC Business Transformation. Summary. PART FOUR: The Way Forward. CHAPTER ELEVEN: HR Structure, Roles, and Relationships. An Approach to Organizational Structure for HR. Roles and Relationships for the HR Strategic Partners. Roles and Relationships for the HR Process Owners. Roles and Relationships for the HR Strategy Council. Summary. CHAPTER TWELVE: The Solution after Next: Integrating Internal Service Businesses. Five Levels of Integrating Internal Service Businesses. Level 1— Shared Learnings among Internal Service Businesses. Level 2— Integration through Joint Planning and Project Management. Level 3— Integration through Common Processes and Approaches but Still Operating Separately. Level 4— Integration through Collaborative Work for Specific Initiatives. Level 5— Structural Integration of Internal Service Businesses. The Extent to Which Internal Service Businesses Can Be Integrated. Epilogue: High Performance HR Professionals Lead the Transformation. Summary. APPENDIX: An Interview with Dr. David Weiss. A COMPREHENSIVE READING LIST FOR HR PROFESSIONALS. INDEX.

About the Author :
About the Author Dr. David Weiss is a Partner in the international human resources consulting firm of Geller, Shedletsky #38; Weiss. They specialize in providing consulting services in business strategy, organizational change, human resources development, management assessments, and career management. David Weiss has developed an extensive practice providing HR consulting and executive development to a wide range of clients throughout North America in many industries including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and financial services. He specializes in redesigning human resource functions to provide strategic value to the company, facilitating senior executive strategic thinking processes and team building, realigning businesses to achieve customer focus, implementing national change management initiatives, and mediating conflicts in all aspects of employee management and customer relations to achieve effective solutions. David received his Doctorate from the University of Toronto and has two Masters degrees from Columbia University in New York. He is a Senior Fellow of the Industrial Relations Centre of Queen's University, a Past President of the Organizational Psychology Section of the Ontario Psychological Association, and an honored member of the International Who's Who of Professionals. He is a sought-after motivational speaker, trainer, and facilitator, and he is on the editorial board of the Canadian Learning Journal. He is the author of Beyond the Walls of Conflict: Mutual Gains Negotiating for Unions and Management. High Performance HR is his second book. More information about David and his firm is available at www.gswconsultants.com.

Review :
"This book clearly redefines the valuable role and impact HR canhave in business. Particularly refreshing is the acknowledgment anddefinition of the link HR has with the external customer. Istrongly recommend this book to all HR professionals considering are-evaluation of their own HR function." -- Ron Guest, Vice President, Human Resources, BellCanada "This book provides a valuable new way for HR professionals tothink about their work, their department, and how they can becomestrategic players in their organization. David Weiss's examples andinsights include such gems as the 'abandonment' principle: how todelay, dump, distribute, or diminish low value-added HR work. Thatalone is worth the price of the book. But there are lots of otherjewels. Don't miss this important new book-- a must-read forthe forward-thinking HR professional." -- Dr. Carol Beatty, Professor, Business School, Director,Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University "Finally, a book that shows us how to build the HR function intoone that is truly valued as a strategic businiess partner-- amust-read for all business leaders." -- James Marchant, Vice President Human Resources, C-MACIndustries "It is indeed refreshing to see a human resource book thatfocuses on external customers and treats human resources as abusiness and not just a staff function." -- Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor ofMarketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University "It is brilliantly insightful. What I find so compelling aboutit is just how accurate a depiction it is of both HR reality and,hopefully, HR potential." -- Lynn Evans, Vice President Human Resources, NortelNetworks


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471643852
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Sub Title: Leveraging Human Resources for Competitive Advantage
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471643858
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 595 gr


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