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Partnership HR
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Partnership HR

New Norms for Effective Recruitment, Performance, and Training of Today's Workforce

Irving H. Buchen
Davies-Black Publishing, 2007
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Recommendation

Irving H. Buchen is a widely published author on human resources (HR) design and its contribution to corporate value. In this book, he shows you how to rethink the ways your HR team can enhance your company’s competitive edge. In his view, companies need to pay attention to workforce structure and give workers the credit they deserve. It isn’t enough to do what you did yesterday, because your competition has already changed the rules. He outlines steps HR can take to help mold your workforce into a sharp competitive tool. Buchen’s prose is not always clear, and he does love the professional argot of HR, but the value of his advice compensates well for that. getAbstract recommends this book to HR professionals.

Summary

The CEO or the Workforce?

The public and the press usually focus on the names and faces of your company’s top brass, but they aren’t necessarily the only ones working to meet the organization’s objectives. Rank-and-file employees give life to the company’s mission, even though top executives often get the credit.

In fact, most corporate vision and mission statements are so generic that you would find it hard to identify any specific company – not to mention its employees – by reading such a pledge. But what if your company’s human resources (HR) department wrote its own version of the company’s vision and mission statements? Wouldn’t it include the vital contribution of the workforce? It would have to. Such a declaration would encompass the company’s goals and offer profiles of its most effective workers. The HR department has the real-world challenge of matching each employee’s strengths with the company’s purpose and values. To that end, HR should:

  1. “Identify” – Design a work profile, department by department, that identifies common standards and goals.
  2. “Review” – Review performance standards and compile a generic...

About the Author

Irving H. Buchen is a management consultant and is on the faculty of Capella University in Minnesota. He is the author of six books and nearly 200 articles on HR.

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