A comprehensive guide to using strategic HR methods to increase company performance. This book explains what strategic human resources means, how it differs from other HR activities, and why it is critical to business performance. It walks through key questions for designing, deploying and integrating different strategic HR processes including staffing, performance management, compensation, succession management, and development. The book also addresses the role of technology in strategic HR, and discusses how to get companies to support, adopt, and maintain effective strategic HR processes. The book includes dozens of illustrative examples of effective and ineffective strategic HR using stories drawn from a range of companies and industries.

The definitive guide to finding, developing, and keeping the best talent—expanded with brand new and updated material The Talent Management Handbook is the established go-to guide for HR professionals, managers, and leaders looking for the best ways to use talent management programs to develop a culture of excellence. This third edition features new and updated chapters based on fresh approaches and material for identifying, recruiting, positioning, and developing highly qualified, motivated people to meet current and future business requirements. Filled with expert advice, the book offers a roadmap for developing a comprehensive approach to talent management that will guide professionals in the coming years.

The (Un)Common Sense of Management looks at learning and practicing management from a â€~holistic' perspective; attempting to combine the â€~hands-on' with the â€~minds-on'. Formal management training teaches us about tools, techniques, and models, but relegates skills, ingenuity, and wisdom to the background. Sanjay Tiwari's framework equips managers to combine the â€~intuitive' with the â€~structured' and helps them acquire the needed skills rather than just getting bogged down by knowledge acquisition. He makes management an individual art, a world of insights and intuition, a â€~sixth sense'. Key Features Redefines the learning of management as a set of basic human skills rather than as a complicated organizational process Takes a real world view of management rather than a purely academic one Provides common sense terms and concepts, graphical representations, and analogies and anecdotes to simplify and explain complex management terms This book provides the â€~big picture' and key rules of thumb for effective management.