Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results

by Harvard Business School Press

This book will change the role of human resource professionals in our organizations and reshape the field for years to come. It challenges human resource professionals to clearly define the value they create and to institute measures for their performance-or face the inevitable outsourcing of their function. The management of human resources, says the author, holds the key to an organization's future success. Ulrich identifies four distinct roles that the human resources function must strategic player, administrative expert, employee champion, and change agent. Full of illustrations and examples from dozens of companies, the book provides hands-on tools that show human resource professionals how they can operate in all four areas simultaneously. It offers specific recommendations for how human resoure professionals can partner with line managers to deliver value and make their organizations more competitive.

281 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996