Strategic human resource management (SHRM) is an approach to the development and implementation of HR strategies that are integrated with business strategies and enable the organization to achieve its goals. In essence, strategic HRM is conceptual; it is a general notion of how integration or ‘fit’ between HR and business strategies is achieved, the benefits of taking a longer-term view …
The overall aim of performance management is to establish a highperformance culture in which individuals and teams take responsibility for the continuous improvement of business processes and for their own skills and contributions within a framework provided by effective leadership. Its key purpose is to focus people on doing the right things by achieving goal clarity. Specifically, per…
This tenth edition of A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice contains many additions and revisions. It refers to major developments in HR practice in the last two to three years such as the development of the theory and practice of human capital management, talent management and approaches to learning and development, all covered in new or substantially revised chapters. Reference…
This book is primarily about the practice of management – the art and science of getting things done. But it is also about leadership – how things get done through people. Management and leadership are different but complementary activities, as explained in Chapter 1. The activities of management and leadership take place in order to make things happen – to get results. The book th…