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Human Resources in a Changing Society - by Lloyd Williams (Hardcover)

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  • With compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnected functions and tasks.
  • About the Author: LLOYD C. WILLIAMS is president of Dr. Lloyd C. Williams, Consultants, an individual and organizational assessment and development human resource management consulting firm in Oakland, California.
  • 224 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Human Resources & Personnel Management

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With compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnected functions and tasks. Williams argues persuasively that lost in the day-to-day effort is another, equally important goal: employee and organizational development. One result is that human resource management has lost credibility as a profession and in its own way, much like many of the organizations it serves, has become dysfuntional. To correct this imbalance--compliance over development--and in fact to salvage the HR profession itself Williams challenges HR people to abandon their search for power and money in organizational life, and instead to redirect their efforts to helping, truly helping, employees realize their potential in organizational settings. With surveys, checklists, advice, and revealing anecdotes drawn from his own extensive academic and consulting experiences, Williams provides a provocative, controversial analysis of the new crisis in human resource management, and a workable set of strategies to help HR professionals emerge from it.

Williams begins by calling the human resource function a bogged-down process. He identifies the problems this causes, and articulates a need for a new set of synergistic processes that will pull HR people out of the past and into the future he envisions for them. In Part II he digs into specific strategies to accomplish the HR makeover. He identifies a new role for HR, traces a process of change, and illustrates the effects of technological advances on the entire HR restrategizing effort. Part III tells HR professionals how to do it. In what he calls a series of workshop chapters, Williams helps HR people reassess their position in their own organizations, determine whether they are on the wrong paths and if so how to get off them, and then provides ways to reinstate the development function to its rightful place as equal in importance to compliance.



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With compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnected functions and tasks. Williams argues persuasively that lost in the day-to-day effort is another, equally important goal: employee and organizational development. One result is that human resource management has lost credibility as a profession and in its own way, much like many of the organizations it serves, has become dysfuntional. To correct this imbalance--compliance over development--and in fact to salvage the HR profession itself Williams challenges HR people to abandon their search for power and money in organizational life, and instead to redirect their efforts to helping, truly helping, employees realize their potential in organizational settings. With surveys, checklists, advice, and revealing anecdotes drawn from his own extensive academic and consulting experiences, Williams provides a provocative, controversial analysis of the new crisis in human resource management, and a workable set of strategies to help HR professionals emerge from it.

Williams begins by calling the human resource function a bogged-down process. He identifies the problems this causes, and articulates a need for a new set of synergistic processes that will pull HR people out of the past and into the future he envisions for them. In Part II he digs into specific strategies to accomplish the HR makeover. He identifies a new role for HR, traces a process of change, and illustrates the effects of technological advances on the entire HR restrategizing effort. Part III tells HR professionals how to do it. In what he calls a series of workshop chapters, Williams helps HR people reassess their position in their own organizations, determine whether they are on the wrong paths and if so how to get off them, and then provides ways to reinstate the development function to its rightful place as equal in importance to compliance.



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With compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnected functions and tasks. Williams argues persuasively that lost in the day-to-day effort is another, equally important goal: employee and organizational development. One result is that human resource management has lost credibility as a profession and in its own way, much like many of the organizations it serves, has become dysfunctional. To correct this imbalance - compliance over development - and in fact to salvage the HR profession itself, Williams challenges HR people to abandon their search for "power and money in organizational life", and instead to redirect their efforts to helping, truly helping, employees realize their potential in organizational settings. With surveys, checklists, advice, and revealing anecdotes drawn from his own extensive academic and consulting experiences, Williams provides a provocative, controversial analysis of the new crisis in human resource management, and a workable set of strategies to help HR professionals emerge from it. Williams begins by calling the human resource function a bogged-down process. He identifies the problems this causes, and articulates a need for a new set of synergistic processes that will pull HR people out of the past and into the future he envisions for them. In Part II he digs into specific strategies to accomplish the HR makeover. He identifies a new role for HR, traces a process of change, and illustrates the effects of technological advances on the entire HR restrategizing effort. Part III tells HR professionals how to do it. In what he calls a series of "workshop" chapters, Williams helps HR people reassess their position intheir own organizations, determine whether they are on the wrong paths and if so how to get off them, and then provides ways to reinstate the development function to its rightful place as equal in importance to compliance.



Review Quotes




?This is one of those rare books that every human resources practitioner should read. Academics in management schools teaching future HR practitioners might be well-advised to study Williams' comments on training.?-Business Information Alert

?Williams helps HR people reassess their position within their organization and determine whether they are on the wrong path, then gives tips on how to reinstate the development function to a place of equal importance with compliance.?-HR Magazine

"This is one of those rare books that every human resources practitioner should read. Academics in management schools teaching future HR practitioners might be well-advised to study Williams' comments on training."-Business Information Alert

"Williams helps HR people reassess their position within their organization and determine whether they are on the wrong path, then gives tips on how to reinstate the development function to a place of equal importance with compliance."-HR Magazine



About the Author



LLOYD C. WILLIAMS is president of Dr. Lloyd C. Williams, Consultants, an individual and organizational assessment and development human resource management consulting firm in Oakland, California./e He has advised governments and private organizations in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Alabama, and Nevada, including numerous academic and health institutions and private corporations. Among his various publications are The Congruence of People and Organizations: Healing Dysfunction from the Inside Out (Quorum, 1993) and Organizational Violence: Creating a Prescription for Change (Quorum, 1994).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.08 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Human Resources & Personnel Management
Publisher: Praeger
Format: Hardcover
Author: Lloyd Williams
Language: English
Street Date: March 21, 1995
TCIN: 1004884650
UPC: 9780899308814
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-4040
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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