HR Optimization: From Personnel Administration to Human and Organizational Development

Elevate the role of HR to a truly strategic position in your organization Does your organization need more than compliance and reporting from HR? Are you being challenged to add value, act as a strategic partner and develop individual and organizational capabilities? Even if your organization only needs personnel administration, are you optimizing that role?

Whatever your organizational reality, this book provides a practical blueprint for HR transformation—and a framework for ongoing analysis and development. Now you and your colleagues can meet changing demands and grow as HR professionals.

The book encourages you to:

Assess your current situation
Think about organizational readiness for change
Develop action strategies to elevate your HR function
No other book takes such a systematic approach to HR optimization. The 14 chapters each discuss one HR function and its components, functions, processes, conditions and standards.
Each chapter includes a scale for assessing where you are and where you want to be, the reasons you need to look at things differently, critical success factors, and lessons learned.

Covers 14 key HR functions:

Compensation
Human Capital Management System
Benefits
Learning and Development
Staffing
Leadership Development
Communications
Process Excellence
Business Consulting
Employee Relations
Change Management
Performance Management
Diversity
Measuring Human and Organizational Capital