The HR Value Proposition

by Dave Ulrich

The international best seller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive table was only the beginning. Today's HR leaders must also bring substantial value to that table. Drawing on their 16-year study of over 29,000 HR professionals and line managers, leading HR experts Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank propose The HR Value Proposition. The authors argue that HR value creation requires a deep understanding of external business realities and how key stakeholders both inside and outside the company define value. Ulrich and Brockbank provide practical tools and worksheets for leveraging this knowledge to create HR practices, build organizational capabilities, design HR strategy, and marshal resources that create value for customers, investors, executives, and employees. Written by the field's premier trailblazers, this book charts the path HR professionals must take to help lead their organizations into the future. Ulrich is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Business and the author of 12 books and more than 100 articles on the subject of human resources. Brockbank is a clinical professor of business at the University of Michigan School of Business, the author of award-winning papers on HR strategy, and an adviser to top global organizations.

Genres: Business, Historical Romance, Management, Nonfiction, Human Resources, Business Strategy

336 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

David 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

Reviews

[Simon Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book as a gift from my senior HR manager. Highly recommend it to HR professionals. Dave Ulrich gives very good insight and practical advise for HR to enhance their value proposition from transaction and administrative works to transformation and strategic works. Its content is very pertinent and to the point in today HR environment, no matter you are working in which HR functions, industries and size of organisation. Surely this will help HR to improve their capability so as to deliver a better business result.

[Cassidy Sullivan]

This is a great resource that I’ll be adding to my professional library! However, I can’t say that it had an exciting plot twist or any interesting character development… only professional development and the importance of transformational development in general!! Hahaha

[Michael Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is truly superb. It's helped me to better understand the challenges and issues facing modern HR professionals, but also includes DIY strategies on how to create a sensible plan to transform under-performing HR in businesses. My only tiny complaint is that the emphasis is more towards re-engineering larger organisations, and there is little in there which leads with examples for SME's.

I regularly use this to help structure competency framework interviews for Director/VP level HR people before I introduce them to clients. It really sorts out the average from the great and not once has a HR professional failed to be impressed by my seemingly endless knowledge, all gained as a result of reading it.

I've given it to our COO!

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh .. how have we not understood this before: value is perceived in the eye of the receiver, not in the bringer of it. Great insights of what HR value really can be.

[Jamila Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent skill building road map for HR professionals. Definite must have in your professional library