From one of America's most eminent human resources consultants, here is the first big-picture guide to HR strategies--broader in scope and more daring in vision than any book on the subject.Robert E. Sibson has advised more than 500 firms on HR issues. In Strategic Planning for Human Resources Management, this expert helps you step back from daily concerns to determine where your HR organization should be going...and how to get there. While other strategists deal in theory, Sibson provides a practical, step-by-step process for human resources planning. His methods for determining priorities, creating systems, and evaluating results are refreshingly direct.At the heart of this book are the 16 critical issues that HR managers must address more aggressively, like it or not: productivity improvement; educational deficiency; delegative management; fairness; managing differences; special interest groups fair pay; health-care cost containment; retirement issues; chronic labor scarcity; the impact of technology; employee owners; restructuring the organization; job security; the working poor; and the new work democracy.Strategic Planning for Human Resources Management not only analyzes the impact of these issues, but presents immediate first steps and specific HR action plans for each. Furthermore, the author argues convincingly that society and the workplace will change even faster than expected... and that the toughest business challenges will fall squarely on the shoulders of HR specialists."With the knowledge that comes from strategic planning, human resources management professionals will be more intelligent; they will know about the needs for innovation; and they will have much more confidence to take the initiative on important matters," says Sibson. Those who seek that knowledge will find it in these pages--along with solutions to some of today's more pressing HR problems. Read Less