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Many organisations are changing the structure of some of their internal service departments such as HR and Finance, to give them a more consultative and strategic role within the company. However, in many cases, this takes place with little thought as to how the new function can be best established and how the individuals themselves need to change in order for it to be successful.
The book is about helping practitioners understand what is involved in operating as a business partner within an organisation. It will help them to assess how to make the transition from working operationally to working in a more strategic position and will equip them with the tools and techniques to help them in their new role. For generalist HR practitioners who are about to embark on Business Partner roles, or who are struggling to make a difference in such roles, the personal change journey can be made more difficult if people do not know what is involved, or understand how HR Business Partners can make a positive difference to their organisations success. The temptation then to revert to familiar activities can be strong and dangerous to personal and functional credibility.
The authors draw on their experience of working with HR teams to show what being an HR Business Partner means in practice. They look at the challenges and what can be done to address them, and provide practical insights into how to develop the skills and confidence required to really make a difference in Business Partner roles.
* Outlines what being an HR Business Partner means in practice
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* Shows how to develop a range of skills for building internal & external client relationships
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Many organisations are changing the structure of some of their internal service departments such as HR and Finance, to give them a more consultative and strategic role within the company. However, in many cases, this takes place with little thought as to how the new function can be best established and how the individuals themselves need to change in order for it to be successful. The book is about helping practitioners understand what is involved in operating as a business partner within an organisation. It will help them to assess how to make the transition from working operationally to working in a more strategic position and will equip them with the tools and techniques to help them in their new role. For generalist HR practitioners who are about to embark on Business Partner roles, or who are struggling to make a difference in such roles, the personal change journey can be made more difficult if people do not know what is involved, or und
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AN OUTSTANDING BOOK! MUST-READING FOR ALL HR PRACTITIONERS.......2006-06-06
The book serves as a practical guide for helping to transform the HR function from one devoted to typical transactional activities to a being a true business partner with line management. Central to the book is a model that will keep HR at the strategic decision-making table and assist leaders to provide opportunities for improving organizational and people performance.
The book provides numerous case studies, diagrams, and tables. Key topics are treated in-depth, with an excellent organization of subject matter.
Highly recommended!
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HR as a Strategic Business Partner
Phyllis A. Domm , and
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Human Resources will only be viewed as a strategic business partner when a direct and measurable link is evidenced between the HR scorecard and the business scorecard. This publication will equip C-Level executives with the tools necessary to improve the quality of HR input into crucial business decisions. HR and financial metrics are illustrated in multiple, specific business cases including: ROI, Cost Benefit Analysis, Cost of Labor Analysis, and Productivity Analysis. Business case studies include growth imperatives, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures. Specific questions answered include: What Human Resource measures improve business performance? Who is accountable for HR measures? What technology/data base systems can assist with creating and producing these metrics? How can HR planning be linked vitally to the business plan?
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on July 2, 2001. The length of the article is 698 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Company seeks top-notch HR partner.(management techniques and information)(Brief Article)
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Title: Company seeks top-notch HR partner: The right partner will manage your human resources professionally and with maximum efficiency. (How to Control Employee Costs).
Author: Jessica Elliot
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Emerging-growth clients to help HR&O expand : An article from: Boulder County Business Report
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HR as a Strategic Partner: The Measurement Challenge
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A new economic paradigm has, in recent years, focused on human capital and intangible assets as the most important, though perhaps least understood, factors in determining business performance. Advocating a High Performance Work System to maximize the quality of human capital, and a move from individualistic (or "bottom-up") to systematic (or "top-down") thinking, The HR Scorecard builds on the Balanced Scorecard approach to develop a measurement system that will demonstrate the connections between HR architecture and shareholder value, securing a strategic role for HR. This chapter serves as an introduction to the book's central concepts.
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HR as a strategic partner: what does it take to make it happen?: An article from: Human Resource Planning
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 8672 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: HR as a strategic partner: what does it take to make it happen?
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HR Professionals Positioning Themselves as Strategic Partners.(Brief Article): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on January 24, 2000. The length of the article is 5058 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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How did a pioneering company in the semiconductor industry not only survive but thrive in the face of the explosive change and upheavals that forced it to transform itself twice in the course of its thirty-year history? The answer lies in the quality of its strategy-making process, contends leading strategic management scholar Robert A. Burgelman in this extraordinary book based on an exhaustive twelve-year study he conducted inside Intel Corporation.
Granted the opportunity to track Intel's strategy-making through his close teaching collaboration with its chairman, Andy Grove, at Stanford Business School since 1988, Burgelman has written a definitive and far-reaching account of how highly educated top managers groped their way through strategic conundrums. His account of the evolution of key events in Intel's history is illustrated with extensive quotes from its cofounder Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, current CEO Craig Barrett, and dozens of other Intel executives. His study allows these leaders to speak for themselves in scores of highly rendered executive portraits.
Using thoroughly tested conceptual tools, Burgelman first documents the key role played by mid-level managers in transforming Intel from a memory company into a microprocessor company during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which led to the heartbreaking decision to abandon the business on which the company had been founded in 1968. He then makes readers eyewitnesses to the complex set of complementary strategic thrusts orchestrated by Andy Grove to make Intel capi- talize on the extraordinary opportunities associated with the phenomenal growth of the PC industry during the late 1980s and the 1990s. He reconstructs Grove's resolution of the struggle between two competing micro- processor architectures within Intel that caused civil war to erupt, and he shows how Intel's superbly run strategy-making process in the core business, paradoxically, made it difficult for internal entrepreneurs to extend the company's strategic reach. This allows him to link the strategic leadership challenges, faced today by Craig Barrett, to Intel's illustrious past and to provide suggestions for how these challenges can be met.
At once a history of strategy-making at Intel as well as a strategy-making field manual that any high-technology manager will need to consult frequently, Strategy Is Destiny truly describes strategy-in-action as the way of life of senior executives in the corporation of the future.
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A summary of Prof Burgelman's Work.......2002-09-04
This is mainly an academic book, yet it can be insightful for CEOs or high and middle level executives too. The book describes and analyzes the extensive work of Prof. Burgelman in Strategy Process. Strategy-making cannot be considered as a pret-a-porter suit, yet Prof. Burgelman's model provides means to understand how to taylor one's suit.
Good stuff, if a bit dense. . ........2002-02-02
Prof. Burgelman is no Michael Porter.
Where Prof. Porter communicates complex ideas in simple terms, Prof. Burgelman finds extremely complicated ways to obscure simple ideas.
Luckily, this book is chock full of quotes and examples that Burgelman largely leaves untouched.
If you factor out Burgelman's poor organization, unbridled love for Intel, and penchant for incomprehensible prose, this is a great book. Burgelman was indeed provided unparalleled access to one of the most successful companies of the 20th century. The stories he tells are true. The quotes and examples are not self-serving.
The only thing missing here is a control group. Intel has entered the 21st century riding at least one strategic inflection point (a favorite term of Dr. Grove's). It would have been interesting if Burgelman would have stopped being a cheerleader for a moment and compared Intel to its closest analog: IBM of 10-15 years ago. Dr. Grove and Intel's "ESM" would be well-served to follow Dr. Grove's own advice and learn lessons from the past.
Still, a fascinating book, particularly for the competitive strategist. Not for the faint of heart.
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Unnatural Selection: Technology, Politics and Plant Evolution (International Studies in Global Change)
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Unnatural Selection: Technology, Politics and Plant Evolution is the first full-length study to focus entirely on the historical development of the control and ownership of living materials. Moving from a detailed consideration of property rights in the United States, Cary Fowler explores current efforts to create globally applicable mechanisms. As struggles continue over the precious resources to sustain life, it is increasingly important to understand the dynamics of the choices being made and to become more knowledgeable actors in the shaping of these choices.
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"Marie Louise von Franz's Projection and Re-Collection is thorough in its wide-ranging exploration as both a map and a guide to the recognition and reclaiming of projection. Von Franz skillfully brings theory to life as she builds on and further develops C.G. Jung's research on projection". -- Julia Jewett Jungian Analyst
"The book is stimulating in going to the core of psychotherapeutic work, and invites a response from psychotherapists in general and from Jungian analysts in particular". -- San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal
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Difficult read with valuable insights & parallels.......2005-12-26
This book explores psychological projection of internal contents onto the external world & its inhabitants & the growth process of withdrawing such projections (re-collection). Von Franz seeks to be scientific & uses analogies from physics & principles of the Philosophy of Science: p. 38: "A general psychological law: The statement of the new truth reveals the previous conceptions as `projections' & tries to draw them into the psychic inner world, & at the same time it announces a new myth, which now passes for the finally discovered `absolute' truth." As one of Jung's primary direct disciples, she explains many of his theories: Self, Collective Unconscious, synchronicity, etc. She discusses evil: demons vs. daimons & notes parallels with Christian mysticism & related mythology. She interestingly analyzes mirroring & reflection among ego, Self, perceived world, & synchronicity. IMHO, her description of ego maps into Buddhism: p. 170: "The field of ego-consciousness is a loose structure of originally separate single islands of consciousness that have gradually grown together. The seams are therefore still perceptible in many people." She notes parallels with other ancient beliefs: "in Stoic philosophy there is the theory that single human souls are sparks of the cosmic fiery ether, that is, of the world-soul...When a human being really tries to lead a spiritual life, these `sparks' gradually grow together into one inner light of reason...This idea of sparks of the psyche...is also to be found in the systems of various Gnostics." And, p. 176: "Individuation is not an egocentric affair but demands & even rigorously necessitates human relatedness," paralleling Buddhist emphasis on compassion accompanying enlightenment. She explains the mutual dependence of ego & Self: p. 187: "Not only is the ego of the empirical human being mirrored in the act of self-knowledge, but also the Self is then first brought from its state of potentiality into realization by virtue of the fact that it is mirrored in the ego, that is, it is recognized. It is only from the standpoint of the Self that the ego can be seen as object and, vice versa." Unfortunately, though citing Mandalas, she doesn't address the many parallels with Buddhist thought or (per Jung) with Kabbalah (e.g. the sparks created in the tsimtsum process of universe creation & the Kabbalists' attempt to re-collect them). There are additional, valuable insights in this book, however, it's a difficult read, perhaps due to translation from German & poor punctuation. Still, it's a valuable book for serious students, not only of Jung, but also of mysticism, mythology, Eastern thought, etc.
The History Of Science And Religion.......2001-06-09
This is one of the few books Marie-Louise von Franz actually wrote (as opposed to being a transcription of seminars she gave at the Jung Institute in Zurich). Thus, in many ways, it is quite dense, and a difficult read. But, I believe this to be one of her finest works, and I'm more than pleased that Open Court has kept it in print. Herein, von Franz details (in two separate sections of the book) the history of scientific discovery and the history of the evolution of religion. The interesting thing, however, is that her focus is on the *errors* made at each step along the way. These, she maintains, represent projections of the unconscious psyche. And, therefore, we have much to learn about ourselves by studying how these things came to be. It truly is a fascinating piece of writing by my favorite of the first generation Jungian analysts.
I'm also a reader of Michel Foucault, who offers another history of human thought. But, unlike Foucault (himself a psychologist), who's focus is almost exclusively on issues relating to external polical power, von Franz's focus is inward, trying to define (as did Jung) the nature of our individual unconscious selves. If your goal is a better understanding of who *you* are, then you should read this book.
Current Jungian thought, influenced highly by Object Relations theory, has tended to minimize von Franz as merely one of the "handmaidens" of Carl Jung. But this woman is far more than just that! She is an intelligent (even brilliant) individual, who was able to take Jung's thought into realms he only alluded to. This book is well worth the effort you will put into reading it. HIGHLY recommended!
Stands out among other books on Jungian psychology.......2000-03-26
Great writer and scientist on her own right, Marie-Louise Von Franz in her book explains and summarizes complex ideas of Carl Jung with good style and clear understanding of the subject. The book deals very comfortably with some of the most difficult subjects of Jungian psychology: projections, the problem of evil and synchronicity. A must read for everyone interested in Jungian psychology and spirituality.
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