Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact. Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value. Illustrations from companies such as Disney, Boeing, and Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship, that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points and the optimal talent and organization decisions that address them. A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points and connect them to talent decisions, showing how today’s “HR” can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage.

Beyond Human Resources - Research Paths Towards a New Understanding of Workforce Management Within Organizations is a concise and pragmatic book about new trends and future lines in human resource management (HRM). It provides an overview of those crucial topics defining today’s HR function. It includes nine chapters offering a framework about urgent HR challenges and lines of actions to understand how HR adapts and innovates to face new organizational realities. This volume is a useful resource for graduate students in the HR discipline.

Instead of thinking of Human Resources as a kind of upgraded personnel department it can be thought of as an analogue to marketing. Just as the Chief Marketing Officer curates an experience to get the best lifetime value from customers, the head of HR can curate an experience to get the best lifetime value from employees. This book explores this new model and titles its leader as "The CMO of People." This new title encapsulates a business focused people function that has learned from the proven tools of the marketing function. The CMO of People creates a predictable and immersive employee experience that drives productivity and performance. In this pathbreaking book, Peter Navin and David Creelman discuss How to create a predictable and immersive end-to-end experience for employees How a CMO of People can overcome barriers and drive performance Why we need to structure the HR department differently How to find unconventional people to staff this unconventional model For a review of the book on the HR Bartender blog click here: https://www.hrbartender.com/2019/career-development/human-resources-future-skills/