Features contributions from the Cabot Group, a major consulting organization formed by the retired executive vice presidents of human resources from Colgate-Palmolive, Merck, Xerox, Nortel Networks, and others.

• Lets these former executives speak their minds about issues that range from diversity to downsizing, from board participation to boredom, from productivity to pop psychology, and everything in between.
• Includes a series of vignettes, personal reminisces, defeats, victories, and other insightful, behind-the-scenes revelations about the power and impact of the profession on corporate life and individual well-being.

Zusammenfassung
This is an authoritative guide through the three primary stages of human resource professional development: transactional; consultative; and executive.

Inhalt

Editor's Introduction.

1. What Is the True Role of Contemporary Human Resources?

2. How Can HR Identify and Maximize the Human Asset?

3. The Non-Rewarding Aspects of Rewards.

4. Gaining Credibility.

5. Creating Partnerships with Line Operations.

6. Profound Challenges.

7. Setting Effective HR Strategies.

8. Contemporary Practices.

9. The Future.