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.
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.
Table of Contents
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.
