How to Turn your HR Strategy into Reality

Overview

In this Report, Tony Grundy takes you through a number of phases towards developing and implementing an HR strategy.

From a diagnosis of HR issues – identifying and assessing the critical areas where Human Resources can enable or frustrate business strategy and operational performance – to an analysis of the external and internal future environment of your company and the effect on your Human Resources – this is practical information aimed at HR and senior line managers.

Using a Future Organisational Model, you will see how to flesh-out future organisational structures, skills, behaviours and attitudes, and be able to define, develop and prioritise Human Resource ‘breakthroughs’ – in other words, a small number of concentrated programmes or projects which move you towards that future.

The benefits of this Report include:

• Diagrams and charts to bring the process of developing an HR strategy alive
• Case studies (including Champneys Health Farm and Nycomed Amersham) – learn from the experiences of fellow HR professionals
• Detailed checklists of what to do – don’t leave anything to chance!

Content

1 An introduction to HR strategy

• Introduction: background
• Towards an HR strategy process

2 The role of HR strategy

• Introduction
• The origins and development of human resources strategy
• Exploring the linkages in practice – key themes
• A study in human resource strategy – introduction
• Categories of linkages – corporate and HR strategies
• Results of the research
• Summary
• Implications for theory and practice
• Conclusions

3 Strategic human resource development and planning

• Introduction
• Strategic HR planning and development – where this fits in
• A strategic HR planning and development process
• Creating organisational scenarios
• Nycomed Amersham Life Sciences
• Lessons and conclusion

4 Managing HR strategy programmes and projects

• Introduction
• The implementation process
• Tools for analysing HR strategy break-throughs

5 Conclusion

The author

Tony Grundy is an independent consultant (Director of Cambridge Corporate Development) and Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management. He has extensive experience of strategic HR bench-marking and organisational change and has worked as a consultant on HR strategy and related issues. He has researched HR strategy at Abbey National and Norwich Union, and is the author of several best-selling books, as well as articles on HR strategy in leading management journals. He is also a highly experienced and very popular seminar presenter.