HR Disrupted
It’s time for something different (2nd Edition)
Lucy Adams
Description
THE NEW AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC WORK ON DISRUPTIVE HR. THE WAY WE WORK IS CHANGING FAST, AND TRADITIONAL HR IS NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE.
Equipping our organizations to meet today’s demands requires something very different. This book provides HR professionals with:
- a compelling case for changing HR
- practical people solutions for a disrupted world
- strategies to make the changes they need
- ways to equip HR with the right capabilities and mindset
Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good.
Reviews
Great book challenging the norms of HR. Everything the author says resonates with evolved HRs. We should question what we do and see how we can truly help businesses as a strategic partner. This book delivers the insights how to do that.
NetGalley
What are the needs of the future? This book is a must read for those HR leaders that want more out of their careers and don’t want to sit back and accept indifference. Nothing is usual anymore, therefore we need to take action to prove our worth. We need to be the go-to experts for everything involving human beings in an organization. So, for those that are serious this book is your first step towards the future in HR.
HR Director
This is by far the best book I’ve read in years, everything Lucy talks about is directly related to my own thoughts and observations I’ve seen with my own eyes in all the places I’ve work. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is genuinely interested in helping understand and address one of the most important and influencial aspects of any business or organisation that will greatly help achieve what it has set out to do…the people working in it. I will definitely be looking into Lucy’s further work following this book.
Amazon
This book is fantastic! Really opens your mind to alternative routes and possibilities to processes and questions that those in the HR profession may feel are ‘set in stone’ and unchanging. This is the first book I’ve binge read in about 15/20 years! Just could not put it down!
Amazon
Great read and I loved that at the end of each chapter Lucy talks about how to apply the concepts discussed.
Amazon
This book is a must read for those HR leaders that want more out of their careers and don’t want to sit back and accept indifference. Nothing is usual anymore, therefore we need to take action to prove our worth. We need to be the go-to experts for everything involving human beings in an organization. So, for those that are serious this book is your first step towards the future in HR.
HR Director
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction to the second edition
Part 1: What’s Wrong with HR?
Chapter 1: HR is Dead (Long Live HR)
Chapter 2: How I Got Here
Part 2: The Way HR Should Be: The EACH Model
Chapter3: Employees as Adults
Chapter 4: Employees as Consumers
Chapter 5: Employees as Human Beings
Part 3: Reinventing HR
Chapter 6: Recruitment
Chapter 7: Induction
Chapter 8: Employment Rules and Policies
Chapter 9: Managing Performance
Chapter 10: Reward
Chapter 11: Training and Development
Chapter 12: Talent Management
Chapter 13: Leadership Development
Chapter 14: Employee Engagement and Communications
Part 4: Making It Happen
Chapter 15: Turning Old HR into New HR
Chapter 16: The HR Team of the Future
Editions
FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP
Paperback / 9781788602112 / February 16, 2021 / £14.99
Ebook / 9781788602105 / February 15, 2021 / £7.99
Paperback and eBook Bundle / £16.99
Author
Lucy Adams
Lucy Adams is on a mission to help organisations bring their human resources departments into the 21st century. Through her agency, Disruptive HR, she aims to provoke the HR community into creating new ways to support businesses in today’s complex and ambiguous world. In doing so she challenges leaders and HR professionals to learn from sources as varied as management theory, consumer organisations, marketing, neuroscience, and the latest thinking on motivation and reward. She also addresses how businesses can deal with public scrutiny, and advises them on leadership and change.
Lucy was HR director at the BBC during one of its most turbulent periods. Responsible for all aspects of employee relations, reward, training, and development, she also reduced the corporation’s management by over 30%. In her five-year tenure Lucy witnessed four director generals come and go, oversaw the move to the Salford site, and coped with numerous and very public crises, including executive payoffs and the Savile scandal.
Prior to working at the BBC Lucy was group HR director at Serco, the government services organisation; this came after a period working for the law firm Eversheds.
Along with her business partner, Lucy runs workshops and consults on many topics within the HR arena. She specialises in helping HR and other business professionals to step back from their old assumptions about motivating people and to see more creative and effective ways of engaging employees.
