HR's leading thinkers provide a blueprint for the future. The international bestseller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive table was only the beginning. Today's HR leaders must also bring substantial value to that table. Drawing on their sixteen-year study of over 29,000 HR professionals and line managers, leading HR experts Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank propose The HR Value Proposition. The authors argue that HR value creation requires a deep understanding of external business realities and how value is defined by key stakeholders both inside and outside the company.

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. The Premise of HR Value

2. External Business Realities

3. External Stakeholders

Investors and Customers

4. Internal Stakeholders

Line Managers and Employees

5. HR Practices That Add Value

Flow of People and Performance

6. HR Practices That Add Value

Flow of Information and Work

7. Building an HR Strategy

8. HR Organization

9. Roles for HR Professionals

10. HR Competencies That Make a Difference

11. Developing HR Professionals

12. Implications for the Transformation of HR

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors