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David Vere, Lynne Butler

Pages: 60 Published: October 2007

ISBN13: 9781843981923

Price: £19.99

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Description

HR Practitioners in the public sector face new challenges as the Government pushes for improved delivery of front-line services alongside greater efficiency. The CIPD, in conjunction with its partners in the National School of Government, the Employers' Organisation and the Development Partnership, have cooperated with a consortium of nice organisations in central and local government to complete a year-long action research programme aimed at building the strategic capability of the HR function.

The goal is nothing less than a sea change for the HR function - from a narrow focus on efficiency and cost reduction towards the empowerment of staff to deliver service improvement.

This Research Report looks in detail at the efforts of consortium members to make HR 'it for business', exploring seven key themes:

- Goals: Defining the strategic role of the HR fucntion in the organisation
- Physique: Building a strategic HR organisation
- Technique: Ensuring HR is adding value to the organisation
- Fitness: Developing the capability and confidence of the HR function to deliver
- Teamwork: Building an effective working relationship with the other organisational players
- Performance: Enabling managers to be effective and release the performance of their people
- Results: Measuring the impact of HR activities in the organisation

Contents

Introduction
The Starting Point
Drivers for Change
Models for HR in the Future
Goals
Physique
Technique
Fitness
Teamwork
Performance
Results
Conslusions

About the author(s)

David Vere

Lynne Butler

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