Tomorrow's HR Management: 48 Thought Leaders Call for Change

In the future, will human resource management emerge as an even more critical factor in developing and maintaining a company's competitive edge, or will it become just one more outsourced function overseen by managers busy juggling several other responsibilities at the same time? Will HR departments buckle under the constant pressure to do more with less, or will inspired leaders develop practices that link HR to overall business strategies and improved organizational capabilities? Tomorrow's HR Management is about creating the future right in your own company—adapting to meet the needs of your enterprise and the demands of a changing business environment.

In this remarkably visionary volume, 48 of the most perceptive and imaginative HR executives, consultants, and scholars from around the world offer their views on the future of the field and prescribe courses of action that will help CEOs and HR managers shape that future. Each of the book's six sections advocates a strategic goal designed to increase HR's productivity, efficiency, and adaptability. Each chapter analyzes obstacles and formulates tactics designed to help reach these goals. This book helps HR managers and business leaders to:

• Manage HR like a business—define and deliver clear outcomes
• Play new roles in the competitive environment of the future
• Prepare for the future
• Build an infrastructure and discover how to measure progress
• Remember the human in Human Resources
• Go global through advances in technology.

Whether the future brings a steady and gradual curve of change or dramatic events that require drastic, overnight adjustments to radically new business environments, Tomorrow's HR Management will help lead the way in meeting these challenges and can be used by anyone from the CEO to the newest HR professional to create a more competitive organization.

DAVE ULRICH is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan where he is on the core faculty of the Michigan Executive Program. BusinessWeek lists him as one of the world's "top ten educators" in management and the top educator in human resources. Ulrich has received the Pericles Pro Meritus Award for outstanding contribution to the field of HR, and has consulted with over half of the Fortune 200. He is the author of Human Resource Champions and coauthor of Organizational Capability (Wiley) and The Boundaryless Organization.

MICHAEL R. LOSEY, SPHR, is President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Secretary General of the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA). He has more than 35 years' experience in all areas of human resource management. He is an NAHR Fellow, and a frequent speaker and author on human resource management issues.

GERRY LAKE is Managing Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal, which presents research on cutting-edge HR topics and is affiliated with the University of Michigan Business School. She has designed, managed, and made presentations in workshops around the world for such clients as Amoco, Digital Equipment, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Columbia University. And she has published in the areas of adult transitions and human resources.