Recommended Reading
HR professionals need to keep up to date in their own subject and need access to leading edge business thinking. Here we provide our recommended reading list.
Reading the 'Financial Times' twice a week is a must, as is keeping up to date with current topics discussed in places such as Harvard Business Review and the Economist.
Some Essential Business Books
- Managing for Results - Peter Drucker
- Competitive Strategy - Michael E. Porter
- One Minute Manager - Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
- Competing for the Future - Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad
- Leading Change - John P. Kotter
Insightful HR Books
- Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail - R. Meredith Belbin
- Creating Strategic Change - William A. Pasmore
- Human Resource Champions - Dave Ulrich
- Human Equation - Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Re-engineering Human Resources - Lyle M. Spencer Jr
- Ultimate Rewards - Steven Kerr
- Rewarding Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy - Edward E. Lawler III
- Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship - Edgar H. Schein
- Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure and Process - Jay Galbraith