Personnel professionalism requires directors and managers to keep fully abreast of current business strategy; this series aims to provide the tools for them to make a full contribution to organizational success. Nowadays, personnel professionals are required to move into the mainstream of business management. In this book, Geoff Armstrong and a number of leading human resources and personnel directors (or their equivalents) from almost every sector of the economy offer contributions to this idea. Each offers their personal philosophy of people management; their most difficult recent decisions; the keys to effective decision-making; what they need from their employees; the problems their organizations have just faced - and overcome; personnel"s strategic role in the boardroom; and the main challenges and opportunities for the years ahead.