This is a decent book that tries to explain why HR should be value-based, which it does well. Unfortunately, it only supplies you with a lot of models and different structures, without any really practical advice on how to go about this (except: write a HR strategy), which is really what is missing en masse from most of the HR literature.

It is not bad, and even manages to make a case for why HR should be a strategical concern, and that HR must contribute more to the strategical level, but the lack of any real advice and/or practical guidance, lets it down.