Human Resource Champions issues a challenge to HR professionals: define the value you create and institute measures for your performance, or face the inevitable outsourcing of your function. Ulrich identifies four distinct roles that human resources staff must assume-strategic player, administrative expert, employee champion, and change agent. He provides hands-on tools that show HR professionals how they can operate in all four areas simultaneously and offers specific recommendations for partnering with line managers to deliver value and make their organizations more competitive. Winner of the 1997 Society for Human Resource Management Book Award. "The best book available on the new HR. It provides a vast array of useful tools for the HR professional."--Edward E. Lawler III, Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California and author of From the Ground Up: Principles for Creating the New Logic Corporation "This book is a 'must' on the reading list of all human resource professionals. The one person who most thoroughly understands the dramatic transformation that is occurring in human resources is Dave Ulrich. He not only understands it, but he has been a catalyst for the change and has helped bring clarity to the HR role of the future."--Pete Peterson, Senior Vice President Personnel, Hewlett-Packard Company "Practitioners-not just HR professionals, but every executive or CEO looking to improve people management practices-will find Human Resource Champions to be an exceptional handbook."--Arthur C. Martinez, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sears, Roebuck & Company