Beyond HR

Author: John Boudreau; Peter Ramstad
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 9781422104156
Published In: June 2007
Format: Hardback , 272 pages
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Through talentship, you move far beyond merely reactive mind-set of planning and budgeting for headcount and hiring and retaining talent. You take a strategic approach to talent by asking savvier questions, including:

About the book

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage' As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.

Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value. Illustrations from companies such as Disney, Boeing, and Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship, that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points and the optimal talent and organization decisions that address them.

A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points and connect them to talent decisions, showing how today's 'HR' can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage.

Do we know where our pivotal talent is in the organization'
Do we invest differentially in our most pivotal-or do we use the 'peanut butter' approach, spreading investments evenly across the entire company'
Where does our business strategy require that our talent pools would have to change the most'
If we changed our strategic goals, which of our talent pools would have to change the most'

John Boudreau
John W. Boudreau is professor of management and organization at USC's Marshall School of Business and the research director at USC's Center for Effective Organizations. He has published more than 50 books and academic articles, including the best-selling textbook Human Resource Management in multiple languages worldwide (and now in its 8th edition). His research on the bridge between talent and competitive advantage is recognized worldwide and received the Academy of Management's New Concept and Human Resource Scholarly Contribution awards. He consults extensively with clients such as Citigroup, Corning, GE, JP Morgan Chase, Sun Microsystems and others. Prior to joining USC, he was Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell University.

Peter Ramstad
Peter M. Ramstad is Executive Vice President for Strategy and Finance at Personnel Decisions International (PDI), a global human resources consulting firm known for building leadership talent. He has worked extensively with both HR and line leaders at all levels of several US and multinational organizations.