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The principles of sound human resource management are generally understood, but too often practitioners believe the same policies and programs will work in all contexts. The effectiveness of any system is highly dependent on the context within which it must function. And due to globalization and increased workforce diversity, the contexts across and even within organizations have become more varied.
The Most Important Asset is a story about new graduates entering the human resources field, encountering and dealing with workforce management challenges and issues and developing their own professional competence through experience. Principles are presented and alternative solutions to problems are explored, providing the reader with a roadmap for analyzing situations and making decisions as to how to act. Placing the characters in different types of organizations provides insights into how different contexts call for different strategies. Alternative strategies for staffing an organization, developing its people, defining, measuring and rewarding performance are used to illustrate how what is done should be compatible with the mission, culture, organizational strategy, and internal and external realities.
Sommario
1 Preparing for the real world
New graduates prepare themselves for their transition into the business world.
2 Entering the real world
The characters find employment in different types of organizations.
3 Making sense of the real world
The differences between their organizations cause the characters to struggle with how differences impact the effectiveness of workforce management strategies.
4 Assessing organizational context
The impact of the characteristics of the different contexts on policies and programs are assessed and ways to accommodate differences are explored.
5 Facing a down economy
Changing economic conditions impact organizations differently and ways to operate effectively under the new conditions are sought.
6 Evaluating alternative HR strategies
The different organizations attempt to find strategies that enable them to cope effectively with environmental realities.
7 Learning from others
The characters attend a professional association conference and attempt to find answers for their own organizations to pressing issues.
8 Expanding horizons
Annette begins facing global workforce management issues and attempts to find ways to deal with issues raised by operating with a culturally diverse workforce.
9 You win some, you lose some
Don struggles with convincing the senior management team at the utility that changes are needed, meeting with limited success.
10 Considering new career frontiers
Rob begins a transition into the academic world and Don continues to be frustrated in selling what he believes to be the right path.
11 Life in the (not so?) real world
Rob finds his world to have transformed as he attempts to find how the findings of research can be reconciled with the practices common in
Info autore
Robert J. Greene, Ph.D., is CEO of Reward Systems, Inc. and faculty for DePaul University, USA. He has over 40 years of industry, consulting and teaching experience. He is author of over 100 articles/book chapters, including Rewarding Performance: Guiding Principles; Custom Strategies and Rewarding Performance Globally: Reconciling the Global–Local Dilemma. Robert was the first recipient of the Keystone Award for achieving the highest level of excellence in the human resources field.
Riassunto
The book provides examples of how important effective HRM can be in facilitating organizational success and demonstrates that without its workforce all of an organization’s other assets are inert and useless. These messages are communicated using real life scenarios, to make the situations realistic and to engage the reader in contemplating
