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The HR Business Partner Handbook
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The HR Business Partner Handbook

by Glenn Templeman
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 6m
English
Kogan Page
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Introduction

A well-trodden path should be easy to follow

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

HARRINGTON EMERSON (1911)

The guiding rails

Having spent my whole career with HR people, and of course being one myself, it seems to me that despite the many and myriad business theories we operate with each day, the common HR business partner really does not have an underpinning set of principles for how we should perform the mechanics of our role.

This leaves many HR people whom I’ve met to flounder around in their approach to being an HR business partner, focusing instead ...

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