Succession Planning
Coursera
Short Coursera course on organisational succession planning: identifying business-critical roles, assessing competencies and skill gaps, building and communicating a succession strategy, managing transition risks and contingencies, and reviewing plans over time. Learners can draft a basic succession plan for a team.
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hbr.org
Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.
Harvard Business Review - HR Strategy
Harvard Business Review's topic hub for human resource management, collecting articles and case-based essays on talent strategy, workforce planning, performance management, and aligning HR with business strategy. Some articles are free; full access requires a subscription. Useful for current practitioner and academic thinking.
Strategic Human Resource Management
Textbook that develops a conceptual framework for strategic HR and then applies it to staffing, training, performance management, compensation, and labor relations. Readers learn to evaluate HR practices by how well they support an organization's competitive strategy and environment.
Human Resource Strategy
Research-oriented text that frames HR strategy as a set of choices about acquiring, developing, and retaining people, and reviews how those choices are formulated and implemented. Readers learn the main theoretical lenses, including resource-based and contingency views, behind strategic human resource management.
SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)
Website of the Society for Human Resource Management, the largest HR professional association, with articles, legal and compliance updates, research, policy templates and toolkits on recruiting, employee relations, compensation and workplace law. Readers learn how HR practice and regulation work; many toolkits require membership.
The HR Scorecard
Presents a seven-step method for linking HR activities to business strategy and measuring HR's contribution to firm performance with a balanced-scorecard-style system. Readers learn to identify HR deliverables, choose metrics, and build a measurement architecture that demonstrates strategic impact.