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Summary: Excellent guide for everyone involved in HR.
Review: One of the few books I've read that actually contains "doable" information. It's an easy read and clearly, it focuses on what must change in HR.
The strength of an organization can be leveraged through Ulrich's approach without compromising business results.
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Summary: A Classic Reference for Human Resource Professionals
Review: Purchased the book after hearing Mr. Ulrich speak at the 1998 American Society of Healthcare Human Resources Association Convention in Phoenix. One of his initial comments at his talk was that he would be guilty of taking his ideas and making them practical realities. Although the talk was excellent, the book was better. A practical guide to taking HR to the next level. A challenge to practitioners to move beyond doing things to delivering quality activities to the organization. This book will become a classic.
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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: The management of human resources, says the author, holds the key to an organization's future success. HR people serve as strategic players, administrative experts, employee champions and change agents. Full of illustrations and examples from dozens of companies, this book show how HR professionals can operate in all four areas simultaneously. This book is highly recommended to all HR people at all levels, and will help non HR professionals understand the importance of HR issues within corporations, and see how HR is really a strategic function.
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Summary: Outstanding, should be required reading for HR professionals
Review: This book ties it all together for HR and how HR can add value in partnership with the leadership of the organization. This should be required reading for HR professionals and their business partners.
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Summary: Discuss these ideas in your management team
Review: This excellent book helps us to view HR not as a bunch of functional activities but the people dimension of our business. If you got the time to read just one general HR book - this is your natural choice. Whereever I go in our organization I strongly recommend our HR managers to read it and discuss it with their local management team.
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Summary: Must reading for any leading edge HR leader
Review: Ulrich presents one of the better models of human resources management. He addressess and answers once and for all the stress which is felt by all HR practitioners between the demand for providing administrative support for their organizations and the need to paly a role in the proactive business strategy development. Ulrich is one of the few academics who clearly knows his way around the HR practitioner world. His strategy chapter is worth the purchase price of the book. The only regret is the title of the book which I am afraid will diminish possible readership.
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Summary: I'm waiting for new books of Ulrich.
Review: Ulrich's book is not excellent guide for not only HR managers, it should be read by all professionals working with human and their values. I'm waiting for new books of Ulrich.
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Summary: It's a classic
Review: When Fortune Magazine published "Taking on the Last Bureaucracy" in 1996, a gauntlet was thrown down for the HR community. Thomas Stewart, Fortune columnist, indicted the professional Human Resources community on many fronts. The most damning was, though, that HR added nothing to the achievement of strategic organizational purpose.
This book was the best response to that challenge, and it was a great start. I've assigned this book to my HR management graduate students since 1998, and have not regretted it.
Yes, it is somewhat outdated now, but should be read for its role in reshaping the very definition of HR work. Sorry to say that its companion volume, "Delivering Results," is now out of print, but it can still be obtained.
A recommendation: read this book along with "The HR Scorecard." They work together almost seamlessly.
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