Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management

Cambridge Short Introductions to Management

by Wayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau

This Short Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management provides a concise treatment of the key elements of strategic HRM using an innovative risk-management approach. It emphasizes the importance of the decisions, processes and choices organizations make about managing people and shows how workforce management directly affects strategic organizational outcomes. It provides guidance for managers on how to make better human capital decisions in order to achieve strategic success more effectively. Reflecting an increasing uncertainty in global business, Cascio and Boudreau consider ways of dealing with risk in managing human capital. Numerous examples in every chapter illustrate key points with real business cases from around the world.

234 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2012

Reviews

[Neil E. Golemo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was one of the better ones I've read during my PhD career. It is very dense, but that is because it is loaded with stories and examples that illustrate the concepts of the book in technicolor. If you see a professor require this book, know you you have a good one!

[Rachel Maldonado]

Mercifully, this was a short book and a relatively quick read. I was reading it for a class. The content was good and organized but some of it became repetitive. I also had trouble with some of the sub-headings. They were only two kinds of headings no matter the level of the topic so it made it more difficult to determine what was being examined in the section.