Human resource excellence : an assessment of strategies and trends / Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawler, Edward E., III, author.

Boudreau, John W., author.

Contributor:

University of Southern California. Center for Effective Organizations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management.

Organizational effectiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US, Europe, and Asia, this landmark volume provides an international benchmark against which to measure a company's HR practice. For over twenty years, USC's Center for Effective Organizations has conducted the definitive longitudinal study of the human resource management function. Analyzing new data every three years, the Center charts changes in HR and offers guidance on how human resource professionals can drive firm performance. In this latest survey, Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau conclude that HR is most powerful when it plays a strategic role, makes use of information technology, and has tangible metrics and analytics. Their insights offer an essential understanding of HR's changing role in strategy, big data, social and knowledge networks, and the gig economy.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

TABLES AND FIGURES

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE AUTHORS

CHAPTER 1. What HR Needs to Do

CHAPTER 2. What HR Does

CHAPTER 3. The Strategic Role of HR

CHAPTER 4. HR Decision Science

CHAPTER 5. HR Organization and HR Skills

CHAPTER 6. Measuring Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Impact

CHAPTER 7. The Results of HR Metrics and Analytics

CHAPTER 8. Information Technology in HR

CHAPTER 9. The Effectiveness of HR

CHAPTER 10. Determinants of HR Effectiveness

CHAPTER 11. Determinants of Organizational Performance

CHAPTER 12. How HR Has Changed

CHAPTER 13. What the Future of HR Should Be

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A. Research Partners

APPENDIX B. Research Design

APPENDIX C. 2016 HR Global Study: U.S. Results (N = 114)

Notes:

"This book is the result of the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO's) eighth study of the human resources (HR) function in large corporations"--Preface and acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503605589

1503605582

OCLC:

1027787103