The Trouble with HR by Johnny C. Taylor and Gary M. Stern

The Featured Book of the Day is The Trouble with HR: An Insider’s Guide to Finding and Keeping the Best People written by Johnny C. Taylor and Gary M. Stern. This book outlines the problems within the business industry’s HR departments. Unneeded are the scrambling managers, trying to fill a position within the company. What is needed? An HR department that can find stellar employees.

In order to do this, Taylor and Stern provide step-by-step instructions for all companies, small or large. The book teaches how to gain an effective talent acquisition strategy, select potential leaders and make a program to continue to educate them, and how to keep the people within the company happy. The authors show to to take your HR department and make them into educated leaders and business managers.

Johnny C. Taylor has served as chairman for the Society for Human Resource Management and has held senior-level positions within HR in many high profile companies. Gary M. Stern has written for Investor’s Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal.

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