Developing Business Acumen
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2017
104 pages
978-1-58644-494-5 (ISBN)
Description
Small business HR professionals juggle broad responsibilities and need sharp business insight to lead effectively.
Developing Business Acumen is a practical, fast start guide that helps HR professionals in small businesses understand the business holistically and contribute strategically. From interpreting P&L statements to collaborating with sales, marketing and leadership, this book provides tools to elevate HR's role across the organization. It covers critical skills including metric development, cross-functional communication, relationship-building and environmental scanning. With fewer barriers to cross-departmental knowledge, small business HR has unique opportunities to make an outsized impact, and this book shows how.
As the first title in the Making an Impact in Small Business HR series, it empowers readers to build the competencies that fuel long-term success.
Developing Business Acumen is a practical, fast start guide that helps HR professionals in small businesses understand the business holistically and contribute strategically. From interpreting P&L statements to collaborating with sales, marketing and leadership, this book provides tools to elevate HR's role across the organization. It covers critical skills including metric development, cross-functional communication, relationship-building and environmental scanning. With fewer barriers to cross-departmental knowledge, small business HR has unique opportunities to make an outsized impact, and this book shows how.
As the first title in the Making an Impact in Small Business HR series, it empowers readers to build the competencies that fuel long-term success.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-58644-494-5 (9781586444945)
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Jennifer Currence
Developing Business Acumen
Book
01/2017
1st Edition
Society for Human Resource Management
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Person
Jennifer Currence, MBA, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CPC, ELI-MP is the president of OnCore Management Solutions in Tampa Bay, Florida. She is also a professor of Human Resource Management and Foundations of Management at the University of Tampa; she also serves on the board of directors for the HR Tampa SHRM chapter, and is a graduate of the 2015 Leadership Tampa program of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
Content
Chapter - 01: Defining Business Acumen; Chapter - 02: Demystifying the Numbers of Finance and Accounting; Chapter - 03: Harnessing the Power of HR Metrics and Analytics; Chapter - 04: Learning to Love Sales; Chapter - 05: Teaming Up with Marketing; Chapter - 06: Understanding Operations Management; Chapter - 07: Developing Environmental Awareness; Chapter - 08: Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Spirit; Chapter - 09: Developing Your Business Acumen;
