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HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In
Named as BusinessWeek's #1 Management Educator, expert Dave Ulrich and his team of authors bring human resources a whole new way of thinking and practicing—moving the focus from internal issues to actively helping to set business strategies. Businesses of the future need "all hands on deck" when implementing new ways to stimulate grown and cost efficiency, and this includes human resources. In HR Transformation, the team presents a four-phase model of transformation that shows you step-by-step how to make meaningful progress in contributing to the performance of your company by redesigning HR to work as a strategic partnership.
From the “#1 Management Educator & Guru”-BusinessWeek
“The authors have presented us with an accessible, readable, and practical illustration of a clear path for successful strategy execution in a complex environment.”-Majed Al Romaithi, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
“HR can only transform organizations if it transforms HR. This book shows us how. HR Transformation would have been important in the past-it is critical now! We are entering a new world. HR Transformation can help our organizations thrive in the midst of uncertainty.” -Marshall Goldsmith, author of the Wall Street Journal bestsellers What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Are You Ready?
“Ulrich and his colleagues talk tough and provide a detailed blueprint for how those of us in the field can use our own tools to do a “720-degree” evaluation of ourselves. We cannot contribute to the success of our organizations until we upgrade ourselves.” -Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“Based on groundbreaking research with hundreds of companies and thousands of executives, HR Transformation provides compelling theory and practical tools to create alignment between strategy, systems, and people. This important book should be read carefully by leadership teams everywhere.” -Mark Huselid, Professor of HR Strategy, Rutgers University, Co-author of The HR Scorecard, The Workforce Scorecard, and The Differentiated Workforce
Turn to the front matter for more than thirty rousing endorsements of HR Transformation.
INCLUDES CASE STUDIES FROM Intel, Pfizer, Takeda, Flextronics
From the “#1 Management Educator & Guru”-BusinessWeek
“The authors have presented us with an accessible, readable, and practical illustration of a clear path for successful strategy execution in a complex environment.”-Majed Al Romaithi, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
“HR can only transform organizations if it transforms HR. This book shows us how. HR Transformation would have been important in the past-it is critical now! We are entering a new world. HR Transformation can help our organizations thrive in the midst of uncertainty.” -Marshall Goldsmith, author of the Wall Street Journal bestsellers What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Are You Ready?
“Ulrich and his colleagues talk tough and provide a detailed blueprint for how those of us in the field can use our own tools to do a “720-degree” evaluation of ourselves. We cannot contribute to the success of our organizations until we upgrade ourselves.” -Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“Based on groundbreaking research with hundreds of companies and thousands of executives, HR Transformation provides compelling theory and practical tools to create alignment between strategy, systems, and people. This important book should be read carefully by leadership teams everywhere.” -Mark Huselid, Professor of HR Strategy, Rutgers University, Co-author of The HR Scorecard, The Workforce Scorecard, and The Differentiated Workforce
Turn to the front matter for more than thirty rousing endorsements of HR Transformation.
INCLUDES CASE STUDIES FROM Intel, Pfizer, Takeda, Flextronics
257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 22, 2009
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Dave Ulrich
49 books104 followersDavid Olson Ulrich is a university professor, author, speaker, management coach, and management consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of The RBL Group
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August 4, 2011
HR Transformation is written by the leaders of the RBL Group. For those not familiar with them, they are viewed by many as the people setting the yardstick for HR.
HR Transformation focuses on how HR can, and needs to, be aligned with an organization's overall business strategy. As they say, how HR can adopt an outside-in focus to their strategy. If HR strategy is not aligned with the overall business strategy, the chance to succeed is significantly reduced.
Rather than seeing just the organization as HR's stakeholders, the stakeholders of the organization in generel needs to be taken into account. When HR initiates something, this initiative needs to answer a stakeholder's need first, like a customer. A leadership training programme should be initiated because by doing so will gain the customers (or clients, patients, etc.) that depend on the organization. This is thinking outside-in.
The book looks at the transformation process through four phases: Business context, outcomes, HR redesign, and HR accountability. It also offers case examples from some of the RBL Group's clients that have gone though HR transformation processes.
If you work with HR, this book, and knowledge of the RBL Group, is essential. They are at the forefront of HR development. Having had the pleasure of attending a workshop with Jon Younger (co-author of this book) on talent management, I can safely say that they know very well what they are talking about. Their work is highly recommended.
HR Transformation focuses on how HR can, and needs to, be aligned with an organization's overall business strategy. As they say, how HR can adopt an outside-in focus to their strategy. If HR strategy is not aligned with the overall business strategy, the chance to succeed is significantly reduced.
Rather than seeing just the organization as HR's stakeholders, the stakeholders of the organization in generel needs to be taken into account. When HR initiates something, this initiative needs to answer a stakeholder's need first, like a customer. A leadership training programme should be initiated because by doing so will gain the customers (or clients, patients, etc.) that depend on the organization. This is thinking outside-in.
The book looks at the transformation process through four phases: Business context, outcomes, HR redesign, and HR accountability. It also offers case examples from some of the RBL Group's clients that have gone though HR transformation processes.
If you work with HR, this book, and knowledge of the RBL Group, is essential. They are at the forefront of HR development. Having had the pleasure of attending a workshop with Jon Younger (co-author of this book) on talent management, I can safely say that they know very well what they are talking about. Their work is highly recommended.
January 8, 2013
My 5th choice for a book to satisfy SPHR Re-cert credits. I was impressed by the resources that these authors made available for implementing their ideas, which can be found at www.hrtransformation.com. The basic premise of the ideas in this book is that HR needs to be more strategic, and less transactional, and a good case for outsourcing transactional HR roles is made, to demonstrate how time cane be freed up to allow HR professionals to be more strategic business partners.
February 14, 2024
3.5/5 - very helpful for beginner HR professionals like me
This book gave very good insights into systematically planning out your HR goals/projects more holistically and not just from one department's perspective. I'm currently overwhelmed with how general my HR projects are at work, so I have to thank this for giving me some ideas on what to consider before committing myself to work that may not be essential to begin with.
This book gave very good insights into systematically planning out your HR goals/projects more holistically and not just from one department's perspective. I'm currently overwhelmed with how general my HR projects are at work, so I have to thank this for giving me some ideas on what to consider before committing myself to work that may not be essential to begin with.
October 25, 2012
This would be a great book to someone at the undergraduate level who is just learning about HR.
As far as practical use in the field of working professionals? Only if you've been in HR 30+ years and still don't know how to create your own pivot tables....
In it's defense - possibly useful to business leaders who are entrenched in old ways of viewing HR...
As far as practical use in the field of working professionals? Only if you've been in HR 30+ years and still don't know how to create your own pivot tables....
In it's defense - possibly useful to business leaders who are entrenched in old ways of viewing HR...
September 26, 2011
A good book on how HR can transform itself
January 27, 2013
An HR professionals guide book, as far as I am concerned.
October 23, 2013
Very informative and instructional for those pursuing a degree or career in HR
August 8, 2016
In the digital age, clearly some of the concepts in this book are starting to look dated. However, for a relative novice in the HR domain, this might still be worth a read.
December 16, 2013
A great resource for those looking to revitalize their HR Depts.
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