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| Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers | 
| Authors: James N. Baron, David M. Kreps
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.48
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 139662
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0471072532
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3
EAN: 9780471072539
ASIN: 0471072532
Publication Date: March 22, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Good Condition, delivery time 10 to 12 Working days, via Priority airmail from UK
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Product Description
Human Resources are the most important resource that a firm commands and should be regarded as capital, a factor of production in which managers invest today in order to realize future profits. This book deals with the strategic implications of Human Resource Management as an important strategic asset and emphasizes its importance within the overall strategy of the firm. The book covers issues such as job design, evaluation, recruitment, training, career concern, and outsourcing and downsizing. The linkage between the various pieces of HRM policy are stressed and how the policies are related to management issues such as TQM, just-in-time manufacturing, and others. The book is aimed at the general manager, not the HRM practitioner and it stresses conceptual frameworks, not procedural methodology.
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| Customer Reviews:
The best book on strategic human resources I have ever read! September 20, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Baron & Kreps write with wit & grace, pulling together a vast amount of literature to make their point that human resource management is critical to a firm's success. In every chapter, they get to the point quickly, writing for students in a way that faculty will appreciate. They retain the essence of the academic research on which their principles are based, while focusing on what it all means for managers. I highly recommend this book.
A major achievement in an underserved field June 13, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Essential reading for both general managers and human resource executives, this book breaks new ground in several ways. First, the authors present human resources as a critical part of a SYSTEM, integrated with the company's external environment, workforce, culture, strategy and production methods, rather than as an isolated or downstream activity. Second, they bring insights from economics, sociology and social psychology to the topic, in a powerful way. The four appendices alone (transaction cost economics, game theory, agency theory and market signaling) are worth the price of the book. Third, they avoid the trap of "best practice", where an author looks at a few successful firms (GE? PepsiCo? 3M?) and encourages others to imitate them. In contrast, this book offers clues to creating real and inimitable competitive advantage from a company's human resource management. The entire treatment is readable and rich in cases.
No-bull human resources March 23, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had the fortune to have access to early versions of some chapters of this book, and it changed my opinion about human resources. They present the issues surrounding human resources management using frameworks that come from economics and organizational science, not from opinions and feelings...
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