Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management

Leading authors explain strategic and risk management approach to human resource management. Numerous examples in every chapter illustrate key points.

Wayne F. Cascio (Author), John W. Boudreau (Author)

9781107608832, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 August 2012

234 pages, 23 b/w illus. 12 tables
21.4 x 13.8 x 1 cm, 0.32 kg

'For those of you who are HR execs or who advise them I highly recommend Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management by Wayne Cascio and John Boudreau. It is a new book and has insights that have not been brought together in one place that define the HR function when it is a permanent and significant member of the C Suite. [I] hope you find it as enlightening as I did. I am using it in my Strategic HRM graduate class at DePaul University, even though it was not written as a text.' Robert J. Greene, CEO, Reward $ystems, Inc.

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.

Subject Areas: Personnel & human resources management [KJMV2], Management & management techniques [KJM]