There is no better guide to continuously improving your personnel department.

Planning and Managing Human Resources is the most comprehensive book available on Human Resources and all its functions. Packed with exercises and case studies, the book will be useful to HR practitioners, HR or personnel managers, specialists in HR planning—any HR practitioner, regardless of title.

The authors explore the important roles practitioners play in the continuous improvement of their organization’s HR departments—organizational coordinator, work analyst, workforce analyst, auditor, environmental scanner, forecaster, planning formulator, integrator, planning manager and planning evaluator.

The book also sheds new light on HR "practice areas" as ways to implement an HR grand strategy:

Career planning and management Recruitment and selection Training Organization development Job redesign Employee assistance programs Labor relations Compensation and benefits