The New HR: How to Beat the Competition with a Strategically Focused Human Resources Team

HR departments endeavour to occupy strategic roles in organizations, a goal that is seldom or ever realized. James and Lori Spina bring their academic and corporate backgrounds together to analyse and direct on how strategic human resources cohesively contribute towards gaining competitive advantage, above average profits, building and retaining talent, sustaining financial strength, and addressing challenges of stakeholder satisfaction.

Stepping beyond unclear discussions about strategy that fail to satisfy the needs of all departments, The New HR instead illustrates how human resource leaders can constructively create and nurture teams that think strategically and produce harmony between HR activities and the wider organization.

The New HR is essential reading for human resources executives who desire to make strategic business decisions that ensure the sustainability and growth of the organization and, at the same time, look for new ways to develop the business, strategic, and critical thinking skills of current employees.

Lori J. Spina served as the President of the Delta Group Network, Inc. a management leadership firm formed with her husband Jim in the 1980s until her passing in 2021. She was also a full-time lecturer in the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park where she taught human resource courses in Maryland, Zurich, and Beijing.

James D. Spina worked as an independent management consultant and later as a director of succession planning and executive development for a Fortune 500 media company with business units across the United States. Jim followed corporate life as a full-time senior lecturer at the R.H. Smith School of Business where he taught courses in managing change and business strategy.