Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications

Section 1: Introduction.- Implementation of Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications.- Section 2: General Issues of Strategic Human Resource Planning.- Human Resource Management and Strategie Change: Challenges in Two Deregulated Industries.- Formulating Human Resource Strategies in a Professional Service Firm: A Systemic Approach.- Pay Policy, Organization Strategy and Structure: A Question of "Fit".- Human Resource Costs and Business Strategy: Striving for Competitive Advantage in the Pharmaceutical Industry.- Section 3: Employee Responses to Organizational Strategies.- What Motivates Technical Professionals to Contribute Their Best Effort and Maintain Their Commitment to Their Organization?.- Employee Responses to Organizational Strategies: The Forgotten Variable in Human Resource Forecasting.- Executive Career Patterns and Organizational Adaptation to Change..- Section 4: Strategies for Productivity Improvement.- Strategies for Managing Productivity Improvement.- Forecasting the Cost-Benefits of Job Training.- Individual Productivity: A Sourcing Analysis.- Section 5: Forecasting and Turnover Control.- Manpower Requirements Forecasting: A Case Example.- Use of Personnel Flow Models for Analysis of Large Scale Work Force Changes.- New Technology for Controlling Turnover.- Section 6: Work Force Dynamics and Compensation Policy.- A Model to Simulate the Effects of Work Force Dynamics on Compensation Policy.- Decision Information Support for a Comprehensive Retirement System Conversion.- Analyzing the Link Between Compensation and Quit Decisions of Civil Service Employees.- Section 7: Impact of Information Processing on Human Resource Planning.- Current Trends in the Use of Computer Technology by Human Resource Managers.- Deployment of a Micro-based HRMS as aDistributed Information System: H.R. Policy Management Implications and Impact.- About the Editor and Contributors.