Improving individual and organizational performance is imperative to establishing and maintaining a high performance workplace, developing intellectual capital, promoting productivity, and enhancing profitability. Organizations must be flexible and agile in approaching business strategies....

Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is the premier membership organization for those practicing industrial and organizational psychology. The Society's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in...

This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 32 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains seven papers on...

Is HR ailing? Is its existence under threat from its own profile and contents? Would HR ever move out from its ?Back-Office? image? Is HR business driven? Why is HR slow to change? Why is HR a long Way from becoming a strategic and business partner and self-sufficient revenue generation...

Presents a new vision for HR's role in business Focusing on strategic solutions for HR, Leadership-Driven HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate...

"The handbook features 42 chapters authored/co-authored by 62 authoritative academic and scholar-practitioners (chapter summaries and contributor bios are available):1. HRD - The Profession and the Discipline - Neal Chalofsky2. Foundations of the discipline of HRD 3. Issues & Perspectives on...