Planning and Managing Human Resources, Second Edition by William J. Rothwell, H. C. Kazanas

Sharpen your strategic thinking and planning skills. Anticipate problems, rather than merely react to them. Craft HR programs and other initiatives designed to meet your organization’s needs for knowledge capital. The completely revised and updated new edition of Planning & Managing Human Resources will help you successfully implement the steps of strategic planning for human resources. Learn how to establish a strategic human resources plan that will contribute to your organization's business plan and ensure you outperform your competitors.

There is no better guide to continuously improving your personnel department.

Planning and Managing Human Resources is the most comprehensive book available on Human Resources and all its functions. Packed with exercises and case studies, the book will be useful to HR practitioners, HR or personnel managers, specialists in HR planning—any HR practitioner, regardless of title.

The authors explore the important roles practitioners play in the continuous improvement of their organization’s HR departments—organizational coordinator, work analyst, workforce analyst, auditor, environmental scanner, forecaster, planning formulator, integrator, planning manager and planning evaluator.

The book also sheds new light on HR "practice areas" as ways to implement an HR grand strategy.

Strategic Human Resource Management: A General Managerial Approach (2nd Edition) by Charles R. Greer

This book deals with the interaction between strategy and human resources, as approached from a general managerial perspective. This approach has been adopted for its relevancy to managers in general, as opposed to only human resource specialists. Major features of the book include an investment orientation toward human resources and comprehensive discussions of the environment of human resources, strategy formulation, human resource planning, strategy implementation, the performance impact of human resource practices, and human resource evaluation. Extensive examples of applications of strategic human resource management in specific companies are provided throughout the book.

The conceptual framework for this book is composed of a mission statement and nine components corresponding to individual chapters that draw from the principles of human-capital theory, strategic management, strategic planning, environmental analysis, human resource planning, strategy implementation, and principles of evaluation. It also incorporates principles of rational and comprehensive strategic planning. The framework begins with an assumption that the company has a mission of obtaining an appropriate rate of return for shareholders while complying with the interests of the company's other stakeholders, including employees and governmental agencies. Assuming such a mission, the framework of this book begins with development of an investment perspective for guiding managerial decisions regarding strategic human resource issues. The investment perspective is consistent with mission statements of economically rational organizations. This perspective provides a rational, financially justifiable basis for analyzing the value of alternative human resource strategies, policies, and practices.

The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, Dave Ulrich

Introduces a new way of measuring and thinking about the contributions of individuals to business success.
Makes the case that the role of Human Resources is increasingly important, as company assets become more intangible and reliant on intellectual capital.
Provides a framework that focuses on identifying where Human Resources issues are performance drivers--or impediments--to strategy implementation.
Develops a measurement system that provides valid, reliable indicators of Human Resources' contribution to the success of strategy implementation, and ultimately to firmperformance.
Includes recommendations supported by clear and persuasive examples, as well as the authors' unique survey of 2,800 firms.

A text outlining a powerful measurement system for highlighting the role that human resources plays as a source of competitive advantage and a driver of value creation in a company. Builds on the proven Balanced Scorecard model, showing how to link HR's results to measures that gain respect such as profitability and shareholder value.

Staffing the Contemporary Organization : A Guide to Planning, Recruiting, and Selecting for Human Resource Professionals Second Edition by Donald L. Caruth, Gail D. Handlogten

This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the staffing function--defined by the authors as an integrated system of planning for, obtaining, using, and developing organizational human resources. Written as an on the job reference source for personnel professionals, the book emphasizes a practical rather than a theoretical approach to the subject of staffing. All three authors are university professors with considerable research, publication, and consulting experience on human resource issues. thus, their book is well researched and informative, with a field-based, applied focus. Beginning with an overview of the organizational role played by staffing, the authors move through the legal aspects of staffing to job analysis, human resource planning, and the recruiting process and employee selection, including interviewing. Concluding chapters cover organizational career development, human resource administration, and program evaluation. Although none of the topics is covered in depth, this book provides a well-integrated overview of a wide range of activities associated with organizational staffing. Must reading for the human resources professional, and a useful addition to upper-division and graduate collections.

Human Resource Planning [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Original articles, literature reviews, reports of empirical research results, and case studies on the role of human resource professionals in strategy development, measuring effectiveness of HR practices, compensation systems and acquisitions.

Note: This is a quarterly published magazine devoted to human resource planning.