Chapter 1: Performance Management as Part of the Corporate Strategy -- Chapter 2: Performance in Procurement and Supply Management -- Chapter 3: Performance Management in Operations Management -- Chapter 4: Strategic Management Tools and Excellence Models -- Chapter 5: Strategic Management...

For almost twenty years researchers have predicted the end of personnel as HRM practices increasingly became a line management function. However, while useful for describing shifts in human resource responsibilities, this practice-based view obscures the fundamental strategic reason for this...

For more than ten years, a great deal has been written about the key role that human resources can play in acquiring a competitive advantage. HRM activities would become strategic if the organization's philosophy, policies, programs, practices, HRM processes and strategic needs were...