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Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management (Cambridge Short Introductions to Management)

Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management (Cambridge Short Introductions to Management)

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Professor Wayne F. Cascio, Professor John W. Boudreau
Cambridge University Press, 8/9/2012
EAN 9781107027817, ISBN10: 1107027810

Hardcover, 234 pages, 21.6 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm
Language: English

This Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management provides a concise treatment of the key elements of strategic HRM using an innovative risk-management approach. It emphasizes the importance of the decisions, processes and choices organizations make about managing people and shows how workforce management directly affects strategic organizational outcomes. It provides guidance for managers on how to make better human capital decisions in order to achieve strategic success more effectively. Reflecting an increasing uncertainty in global business, Cascio and Boudreau consider ways of dealing with risk in managing human capital. Numerous examples in every chapter illustrate key points with real business cases from around the world.

1. What is strategy?
2. The external environment
3. HR strategy in context
environmental, organizational, and functional elements
4. HR strategy through a risk-optimization framework
5. HR strategy
linkages, anchor points, and outcomes
6. HR strategy
communication and engagement
7. Outcomes of successful business and HR strategies
8. Future forces and trends driving HR strategy.