Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do about It

PREFACE

We are observers, advocates, provocateurs, researchers, and agitators for the HR profession. For over 30 years, Wayne Brockbank and Dave Ulrich have studied, written about, and trained HR professionals at the Ross School at the University of Michigan and in their private consulting practice. Dave Kryscynski (DK) and Mike Ulrich have more recently received their PhDs in organization and HR science, bringing rigorous theory and research to the improvement of HR.

As seasoned and emerging HR promoters, we have come to share some assumptions about the state of HR today. The following six assumptions form much of the basis and context for this book:

1.   HR matters: We firmly believe through personal experience and empirical data that HR matters ...