Table of Contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction to the second edition
• Part I What’s wrong with HR?
  • Chapter 1 HR is dead (long live HR)
  • Chapter 2 How I got here
• Part II The way HR should be: The EACH model
  • Chapter 3 Employees as adults
  • Chapter 4 Employees as consumers
  • Chapter 5 Employees as human beings
• Part III 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 IV Making it happen
  • Chapter 15 Turning old HR into new HR
  • Chapter 16 The HR team of the future
• About the author
• Notes

About the Author

Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, including the BBC, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good. She created Disruptive HR having grown frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the way people were being led and developed. She now runs the agency to help business leaders and HR functions to do things differently and has worked with numerous blue-chip companies all over the world.

Reviews

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 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*