Exploration of Human Resource Practices

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Globalization and social dynamism supported by technological innovations affect firm's competitiveness causes a threat to sustainability. Coping with these scenarios is a challenge especially when the availability of tangible resources is limited. The optimum use of resources is an option to address these crises on which managers usually focus on. Exploring HR practices by using the inherent potential of human capital, under these circumstances, is the premise of the book.
The book comprises of twelve articles coverings various HR related challenges with an explicit intention of enhancing firm's competitiveness. Authors in most of the articles attempt to explore different HR challenges focusing upon strategic processes. HR challenges of recurrent types require a kind of managerial approaches to address, but managerial intervention to overcome specific HR challenge for strategy execution needs different approach. HR professionals, in later case, know what organization wants to achieve and what the strategy is. In this context, it is also necessary to classify jobs based on the roles either “strategic job families” or “operational roles” (Kaplan, R. S. & Norton, D. P., 2004). Kaplan and Norton (2004) also identifies that challenges associated with intangible assets cannot be addressed on a stand-alone basis. Therefore any attempt of overcoming strategic challenges related to human capital without considering other intangible assets such as information and organization capital appears futile. In a prelude of this book review, it is worthy to justify the perspectives of HR roles, strategic or supportive, based on which authors offer their discourses and findings.
The frequent use of terms such as strategic process, competitiveness...

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...ch to address various HR challenges.
Besides various theoretical, conceptual, and methodological drawbacks as discussed above, the book should have a subject index. For a book of 345 pages covering twelve long articles, the subject index is an essential part that a book must contain. Besides a subject index, a page index covering different models and figures would be substantially beneficial to readers to glide over specific issues. As mentioned before, the findings are highly contextual, and that can be treated both as an advantage as well as a disadvantage. The book may be useful as a practical guide to HR professionals from South Asian countries while it may be referred for insight development to the HR professionals from other parts of the world.
My final words go in favour of this book and I feel it will be a worthy investment to add one copy to my collection.

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