Strategic Human Resource Management: A Guide to Action

This new edition has been fully updated and revised to incorporate the latest thinking, research and practice in this important field. Using case studies, checklists and practical examples, it explores: current strategic human resource management theory, providing a useful background against which action can be taken; the practicalities of formulating and implementing human resource strategies, how they work and what the human resource function contributes; organizational and functional strategies from a practical point of view.

Human resource strategies are only as good as the effective action they produce. Formulating them is the easy part. The difficulties begin when they have to be implemented. This book is an invaluable aid in converting rhetoric into reality.

Strategic Human Resource Management provides practical guidance on putting complex HR strategies into practice. Presenting HRM strategies that have been formulated and developed by practitioners, academics and consultants, it demonstrates how these can be implemented in a real-world context and in line with business objectives to effect positive and productive change.

Substantially updated, the fourth edition includes new material which reflects important developments in HR strategies, including: human capital management, corporate social responsibility, organization development, engagement and talent management. A new feature, the Strategic HR Toolkit, provides guidance on developing HR strategy through a strategic review.

Michael Armstrong is a former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, joint managing partner of e-reward and an independent management consultant. He has sold over 500,000 books on the subject of HRM (published with Kogan Page), including "Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice".