Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy
Author: Linda Holbech
Building on surveys undertaken through Personnel Today magazine and research via Roffey Park Institute, Holbeche provides a set of tools and case studies that show how HR strategists have utilized their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, often within their current job role. The relationship between an effective people strategy and business success is hard to quantify in financial terms, but Holbeche provides persuasive examples to add to the growing body of evidence.
Case studies include mergers and acquisitions policies, organizational design, retaining high flyers in an international environment, and core competency approaches.
* Focuses on performance and developmental issues which are key to aligning HR and business strategies
* Shows how HR strategists have leveraged their role to deliver key business objectives
* Case studies and vignettes on managing change, influencing organizational development, identifying and retaining talent, and leadership development
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Covering some of the performance and development issues which management consultant Holbeche believes to be key to the alignment of human resource (HR) and overall business goals, this work explores the strategic role that HR managers can pursue to add value to their organizations. Strategies covered include rewarding high performance, crossing organizational boundaries, recruitment processes, and assessment of personnel potential. Also considered is HR as a strategic function in relation to mergers, alliances, and the development of an organizational learning culture. Illustrative case studies are sprinkled throughout the material. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation Environment, Place and Space
Author: Michael Hall
The fully updated third edition of this highly successful and acclaimed text continues to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the key issues associated with the area of tourism, leisure and recreation. It provides a cohesive overview of the landmark studies that exist within tourism, leisure and recreation. It not only explains how important tourism and leisure are in modern society, but outlines the key contributions made by geographers in the global growth of tourism and leisure.
The Geography of Tourism and Recreation highlights the inter-relationships between tourism, leisure and recreation. The revised edition, introduces the growing theoretical debates from the discipline of geography and the wider social science area to assess how new conceptualizations of tourism and leisure are advancing knowledge and understanding in this subject area. The evolving nature of geography and social science in leading the analysis of the leisure phenomenon underpins the book, as a living subject which hasseen significant contributions made from the new cultural geographies of consumption and leisure as well as from social theory. These developments are introduced in a clear and crisp manner so that readers new to the subject area are given bite-sized introductions to these important issues.
The chapters within the book explore:
* Introduction: Recreation and tourism matters!
* the demand for recreation and tourism
* the supply of recreation and tourism
* the impacts of recreation and tourism
* recreation and tourism in urban, rural and coastal environments
* recreation and tourism in wilderness areas and national parks
* recreation andtourism policy and planning
* the future of recreation and tourism and the role of geography in applied research
Each theme is illustrated with a wide range of examples and maps and plates.
Whilst this third edition retains the successful format and structure of previous editions to make it attractive and user-friendly tostudents without being overwhelming, it is completely revised and redeveloped to accommodate new case studies, insights, summary points and learning objectives for students. The global focus of the text is retained, with a greater emphasis on North America as well as the importance of less developed countries and the critical issues of inequality, exploitation, underdevelopment and globalization as powerful forces affecting tourism and leisure.
This remains the only truly integrated and holistic approach to recreation and tourism which adopts a spatial approach to the analysis and understanding of the leisure phenomenon, building upon the 'geographical tradition' in leading the development of this subject area.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Introduction: Tourism Matters | |
| 2 | The Demand for Recreation and Tourism | |
| 3 | The Supply of Recreation and Tourism | |
| 4 | The Impacts of Tourism and Recreation | |
| 5 | Urban Recreation and Tourism | |
| 6 | Rural Recreation and Tourism | |
| 7 | Tourism and Recreation in the Pleasure Periphery: Wilderness and National Parks | |
| 8 | Coastal and Marine Recreation and Tourism | |
| 9 | Tourism and Recreation Planning and Policy | |
| 10 | The Future | |
| References | ||
| Index |
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