Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy

What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value?

In the new edition of her ground-breaking book, Linda Holbeche answers this question and provides the tools and insights to help HR managers and directors add value to the organization by implementing effective HR initiatives that are aligned to core business strategies.

Featuring updated profiles and case studies from top HR strategists who have used their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, Second Edition provides inspiration and guidance on how to apply the theory to challenges in your own organization.

Learn how you can strengthen the relationship between a high impact people strategy and business success through your approach to talent, performance, employee engagement and organizational development, and build credibility at the highest levels with this new edition of an HR classic.

Audience: HR Professionals and Senior HR Management; Change Management Personnel; HR Consultants and those on HR executive short courses.

Linda Holbeche is Research and Policy Director at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Linda is responsible for leading the CIPD’s extensive management research programme and the translation of that knowledge into practice for the benefit of all those involved in the management and development of people. She heads a 40 strong team, including 12 expert research advisers, and is a key spokesperson and advocate for the people management and development profession, in the media and in relations with government and other opinion formers. Linda was previously with the Work Foundation where she was Director of Leadership and Consultancy and prior to this she was Director of Research and Strategy at Roffey Park Institute for 12 years.