Title: Credible but muddy effort
Product review: The greatest strength of this book is it's focus on making the business case for investing in human capital, and tying all HR activities to organizational strategy. It does a solid job of laying out a framework for implementing the HR Scorecard, which is made up of 4 components: "HR Deliverables", "High Performance Work System", "HR System Alignment" and "HR Efficiency".However, I found the writing awfully muddy, at times unclear, and often confusing. The book throws out definition after definition, and it's hard to tell where one ends and another begins. At times, the authors seem confused themselves, and there aren't clear distinctions between some definitions. It seems like they're just assigning definitions for the sake of assigning them. In addition, much of what they write is intuitive, and doesn't necessitate the lengthy and confusing descriptions.In short, I didn't enjoy reading the book, and as a result, I didn't get very much out of it.
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