Power HR: The CIPD-Level HR MBA in One Book

If you're an HR generalist at a 100-to-500-person company who runs the whole function - and you sense that running it well means having a system, not a collection of habits - this book is built for you.You already know the work: - The recruitment cycle from intake to onboarding, with no consistent way to measure quality of hire- The performance review that asks evaluation, calibration, and development to happen in one conversation- The compensation conversation that drifts into negotiation because there is no architecture behind the numbers- The engagement survey that scores 67 percent, generates no follow-up, and arrives again next yearThen this book is the system.Here is what you will learn: - The HR Function Audit - a 30-day diagnostic that compresses three months of discovery into three weeks- The Three-Year People Plan - the defensible strategy you bring to your CFO- The Hiring Operating System - six stages that cut time-to-fill and raise quality of hire- The Sourcing Engine - Boolean search, channel mix, talent pools that find candidates the open market cannot see- The Performance Operating System - goals, evaluation, and review as one system, not three competing rituals- The Compensation Architecture - job analysis through equity, defensible end-to-end- The Engagement Architecture - engagement as a closed loop, not an annual survey theater- The Change Management System - rollout discipline that gets adoption above 70 percent63 ready-to-use templates inside - every template is on the page.A practitioner answer to Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice (Amazon paperback, $167.20). A CIPD-aligned alternative to the academic standard, written by a working HR director - not by an academic. Less than the cost of a single CIPD textbook. Less than one hour of HR consulting. Less than the cost of dinner.Drawn from 20 years operating HR at companies from 200 to 4,000 employees - Wargaming, Preply, iDeals, and Mike Pritula Academy (150,000+ HR practitioners trained in 185 countries). Aligned to CIPD scope. Compressed into the depth of an HR MBA.Stop firefighting. Build the system.