This book brings together world-class experts in HR Management to work
with top HR directors to overcome the most pressing issues facing senior HR specialists
today. The book captures the dual edged challenge facing HR Directors; the need to lead
their functions towards effective performance, but also to assess leading practice.
PAUL SPARROW is the director at the Centre for Performance-led HR at
Lancaster University, UK and has held many top level academic positions in International
Human Resource Management. Sparrow was recently voted one of the UK's most influential
people in the HR community and has experience in various consulting roles: academic
consultant, consultant for a mainstream HR consulting firm, and as a self-employed
consultant. His work for major multinational clients and government bodies has included
work on globalising service functions inside multinationals, global employee engagement
patterns, competency master-classes, and advice on centers of excellence and knowledge
management networks.
ANTHONY HESKETH is the Deputy Director of the Centre for
Performance-Led HR at Lancaster University and is one of the UK's leading authorities on
HR resourcing. He researches and consults with some of the worlds leading organizations on
outsourcing, human capital management and its measurement. He was a founding member of the
Centre and also the HROA Europe Board. He collaborates with SharedXpertise on a number of
research projects in the outsourcing and shared services space. He sits on a number of
advisory boards for outsourcing organisations including CAPITA and Xchanging.
CARY COOPER is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health,
Lancaster University Management School, UK and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at
Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books (on occupational stress, women at
work and industrial and organizational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly
articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV
and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and
Co-Editor of the medical journal Stress & Health (formerly Stress Medicine). He is a
Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The Royal Society
of Medicine, The Royal Society of Health, British Academy of Management and an Academician
of the Academy for the Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is the immediate past President
of the British Academy of Management, is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute
and one of the first UK based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management. In 2001,
Cary was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List for his contribution to
organizational health. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Aston University (DSc),
Heriot-Watt University (DLitt), Middlesex University (Doc. Univ) and Wolverhampton
University (DBA); an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the
Royal College of Physicians; and in 2006 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal
College of Physicians (Hon FRCP).
MARTIN HIRD is the Executive Director at the Centre for
Performance-Led HR at Lancaster University. Hird has held a range of managerial and
educational roles. He is a Fellow at the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter
University. In addition to research and teaching within the Centre, his role focuses on
client liaison and responding to business development opportunities.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Performance-led HR - Paul Sparrow, Anthony Hesketh,
Martin Hird and Cary Cooper
2. HR Structures: Are They Working? - Martin Hird, Paul Sparrow and Craig
Marsh
3. Nestlé: Reflections on the HR Structure Debate - Martin Hird and Matt
Stripe
4. Using Business Model Change to tie HR into Strategy: Reversing the Arrow
- Paul Sparrow, Anthony Hesketh, Martin Hird Craig Marsh and Shashi Balain
5. NG Bailey: Constructing Business Model Change - Craig Marsh and Helen
Sweeney
6. Using Relationships Between Leaders To Leverage More Value From People:
Building a Golden Triangle - Anthony Hesketh and Martin Hird
7. BAE: Using Senior Management Assessment as Part of a Talent Strategy -
Martin Hird, John Whelan and Sherief Hammady
8. Integrated Organisation Design: The New Strategic Priority for HR Directors -
Craig Marsh, Paul Sparrow and Martin Hird
9. Understanding the Value of Engagement: Building Belief in Performance
- Shashi Balain and Paul Sparrow
10. Co-operative Financial Services: Linking Ethics, Engagement and Employer
Branding to Business Model Change Craig Marsh and Rob Woolley
11. McDonald's UK: From Corporate Reputation To Trust-based HR - Paul
Sparrow, Shashi Balain and David Fairhurst
12. Vodafone: Creating an HR Architecture for Sustainable Engagement -
Paul Sparrow, Shashi Balain and Paul Chesworth
13. The Future Scenario for Leading HR -Anthony Hesketh, Paul Sparrow and
Martin Hird
304 pages, Hardcover
