The ability to help an organization effectively deal with change is a key competency that all human resource (HR) professionals must possess. However, many people in the HR function have not received any formal training or instruction on how to fulfill this important role. This book provides HR professionals with key concepts and practical techniques to successfully launch, support, and sustain change management initiatives within their organizations. Pragmatic tools and explanations will illuminate critical change management competencies and processes, thereby enabling HR professionals to take on strategic and active roles. As well, understanding of one’s own reactions to change will also be explored to assist HR professionals to effectively manage and guide change. Questions posed at the end of each chapter allow for personal reflection and growth, thereby providing further development of skills relating to change management. This text is an excellent resource for HR students, those new to practicing HR and seasoned HR professionals alike.
Human resource (HR) professionals will gain a solid understanding of the essential steps for managing change within the workplace in this comprehensive guide. Looking at the HR department as a business partner in various change initiatives, this reference will provide professionals with the tools to avoid common management pitfalls, recognize when critical steps are left out of the change process, discover what skills are needed for the future, and expand greatly upon their leadership skills.
The ability to help an organization effectively deal with change is a key competency that all HR professionals must possess. However, many people in the HR function have not received any formal training or instruction on how to fulfill this key role. Further, HR professionals are often paralyzed or frustrated by senior management attitudes and practices, thereby feeling left out of the change process entirely or powerless within it. This book provides HR professionals with key resources and concepts to successfully launch, implement and maintain change management initiatives within their organizations. Practical tools and explanations will illuminate critical change management competencies and processes thereby enabling HR professionals to take on strategic and active roles as they guide and lead employees, at all levels throughout an organization, to successfully deal with change. Further, understanding of one's own reactions to change and how to harness this energy will also be explored to further assist HR professionals to effectively manage and guide change. Key questions posed at the end of each chapter allow for personal reflection and growth, further allowing for development of skills relating to change management. This book serves as an excellent resource to HR students, those new to practicing HR and seasoned HR professionals alike.
The goal of this book is to prepare safety and health professionals to recognize and address human resource issues, applicable laws and regulations, as well as change management techniques used to alter the safety culture within their operations. This book will provide awareness to avoid or address HR related policies/issues/laws which can result in costly litigation, grievances, and other negative implications. The book will address the "pitfalls" for safety professionals to avoid as well as provide the methodology to attain the cultural change necessary to achieve and maintain safety performance. Features Prepares safety professionals how to avoid or address HR issues and laws Provides awareness of applicable labor and employment laws and regulations Covers change management skills applicable to the safety function Enables the safety professional to recognize legal requirements from everyday questions asked by employees Helps safety professionals to prevent becoming entangled in legal issues resulting from their actions or inactions
Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010. Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau measure how HR management is changing, paying particular attention to what creates a successful HR function—one that contributes to a strategic partnership and overall organizational effectiveness. Moreover, the book identifies best practices in areas such as the design of the HR organization and HR metrics. It clearly points out how the HR function can and should change to meet the future demands of a global and dynamic labor market. For the first time, the study features comparisons between U.S.-based firms and companies in China, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. With this new analysis, organizations can measure their HR organization against a worldwide sample, assessing their positioning in the global marketplace, while creating an international standard for HR management.
The goal of this book is to prepare safety and health professionals to recognize and address human resource issues, applicable laws and regulations, as well as change management techniques used to alter the safety culture within their operations. This book will provide awareness to avoid or address HR related policies/issues/laws which can result in costly litigation, grievances, and other negative implications. The book will address the "pitfalls" for safety professionals to avoid as well as provide the methodology to attain the cultural change necessary to achieve and maintain safety performance. Features Prepares safety professionals how to avoid or address HR issues and laws Provides awareness of applicable labor and employment laws and regulations Covers change management skills applicable to the safety function Enables the safety professional to recognize legal requirements from everyday questions asked by employees Helps safety professionals to prevent becoming entangled in legal issues resulting from their actions or inactions
A survival guide to the human resources reengineeringrevolution Sparked by the new information technologies, a revolution is aboutto take place in the way human resource services are organized,staffed, and delivered. To prepare HR professionals for theseradical changes, Reengineering Human Resources provides acomprehensive guide to the basic concepts, processes, andtechnologies that are driving this change. In a clear, concisepresentation illustrated with numerous real-life examples, thisunique book gives the reader: * A detailed primer on the new information technologies, includingspecific human resource uses of the personal computer, interactiveinformation systems, CD-ROMs, personal digital assistants,networks, and more * An explanation of the basic concepts of reengineering, how it canbe implemented, and how to weigh costs and benefits--complete withwork flow graphics and spreadsheet templates * Detailed advice on staffing--the competencies HR professionalswill need in order to succeed and how employee competencies willchange with reengineered work * Specific cases of how human resource functions will be performedafter reengineering, including examples of recordkeeping,succession planning, performance management, training anddevelopment, employment practices, and more Human resources management is on the brink of radicaltransformation and the instrument of that transformation isinformation technology. Starting with this provocative premise, Reengineering HumanResources offers human resource professionals an eye-openingintroduction to the changes that are about to affect theorganization, staffing, and delivery of human resource services.For those who are prepared to take full advantage of the newtechnology, it will mean dramatic increases in productivity andimpressive decreases in cost, as well as vastly improved servicesand greater client satisfaction. In a real sense, the field ofhuman resources is undergoing a revolution. Written by management expert Lyle M. Spencer specifically for humanresource professionals, this book shows how new technologies,reengineered work processes, and retrained employees will bringabout this revolution. Although it assumes no technical expertise,Reengineering Human Resources brings the reader up to speed on thelatest hardware and software applications, including personalcomputers, interactive voice response systems, personal digitalassistants, CD-ROMs, expert systems, information networks, and muchmore. Not just a description of these changes, this important bookprovides complete "how-to" instructions for reengineering,including activity-based costing, value analysis, and work flowcharting. It describes the radical new approaches to organizingwork made possible by combining traditional work analysis methodswith advances in information technology. Specific cases ofreengineered human resource functions, including recordkeeping,employee health care benefits, performance management, training,compensation, and labor relations are illustrated with real-lifeexamples. An entire chapter describes the ways employeecompetencies will change in the reengineered organizations and jobsof the future. Information on implementing these changes explainshow to calculate both the costs and benefits ofreengineering. Timely, authoritative, and compelling, Reengineering HumanResources offers human resource professionals the opportunity toshape the future of their workplace and their profession.
This exciting new book has grown from a need to provide practical advice to managers who deal with contemporary human resource and change issues. A crucial role of a manager is to respond in the best interests of the organisation and at the same time retain talent. Skill shortages and ageing populations in developed economies and the need for emerging economies to develop their workforce coincide to present managers with unique challenges. Human Resource Management and Change: A practising managers guide offers a timely overview of recent environmental and economic changes as depicted by the DELTA forces of change. These include demographic, environmental, legal, technical and attitudinal changes that are in part the product of globalization, and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The fundamental strategies for managing change and implementing human resource practices are clearly explained. End of chapter study guides further explain the topics of the chapters by providing case studies and review and discussion questions as well as further reading. The text reflects the everyday challenge managers face in a turbulent environment and focuses on providing practical guidelines to managers who may not have higher academic qualifications to help them manage people and change.
Even the most carefully planned organizational changes can fail if individuals are not taken into consideration. The Human Side of Change is a step-by-step action plan for the change process that takes full advantage of an organization's greatest resource: its people. From planning to implementation to behavior change, Timothy J. Galpin shows how a well-orchestrated approach--one that pays attention to the soft side aspects of the process--can make the difference between change for the better and no change at all. Drawing on a decade of consulting experience with businesses and governments around the world, Timothy J. Galpin outlines a nine-step process for effectively combining the human and technical sides of change for successful mergers, downsizing, and restructuring. The Human Side of Change offers managers, frontline supervisors and human resource professionals valuable tools, techniques, and examples to help them gain support for change at all levels of an organization. With numerous charts, graphs, and a glossary of change-management terms, this book is both an ideal blueprint and an accessible quick reference for the implementation of stable and sustained transformation.
