Dave Ulrich

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Core Field: Human Resource, Business and Management

The Academic

Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Ulrich studies how organisations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. Throughout his time he’s helped generate multiple award winning databases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.

The Author

Professor Ulrich was Editor of Human Resource Management Journal for 10 years and serves on the editorial boards of 4 other journals. He has published more than 100 articles, authored or co-authored book chapters and 12 books, including;

  • Why the Bottom Line ISN'T!: How to Build Value through People and Organization. Ulrich, Dave and Norm Smallwood. 2003.
  • The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy and Attacking Organizational Problems--Fast. Ulrich, Dave, Ronald Ashkenas, and Steve Kerr. 2002.
  • The HR Scorecard: Linking People,Strategy, and Performance. Becker, Brian, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich. 2000.
  • Results-Based Leadership (won SHRM book of the year award, 2000) Ulrich, Dave, Jack Zenger, Norm Smallwood. 1998
  • Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals. Ulrich, Dave (editor). 1998.
  • Organizational Learning Capability Yeung, Arthur, Dave Ulrich, Steve Nason, and Mary Ann Von Glinow. 1998.
  • The Boundaryless Organization Field Guide. Ashkenas, Ron, Todd Jick, Dave Ulrich, and Katy Paul-Chowdhury. 1998.
  • Tomorrow's Hr Management: 48 Thought Leaders Call for Change.Ulrich, Dave, Michael Losey, Gerry Lake (eds). 1997.
  • Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results.Ulrich, Dave. 1997. (SHRM, 1997 book of the year award)
  • The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure. Ashkenas, Ron, Steve Kerr, Todd Jick, and Dave Ulrich. 1996. (won book of the year award)
  • Organizational Capability: Competing from the Inside/Out. Ulrich, Dave and Dale Lake. 1990.

The Award Winner

Ulrich has received many awards for his work, these honours include:

  • 2005 Rated No.2 consultant by Executive Excellence. Up from No.3 in previous ranking in 2004.
  • 2001 Ranked by Business Week as #1 management educator.
  • 2000 George Petitpas Memorial Award from World Federation of Personnel Management for lifetime contributions to human resource profession "Listed in Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches"
  • 1998 Award for Professional Excellence for lifetime contributions for intellectual leadership of the profession from Society for Human Resource Management "International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment, and Employment Management Association, lifetime achievement (PRO) award"
  • 1997 "Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award. Awarded by International Personnel Mannagement Association to "recognize an individual in private or public life who has made a contribution toward improvement of public personnel management at any level of government."
  • 1995 "The Pro Meritus Award from the Employment Management Association for "outstanding contribution to the human resources field"
  • 1994 "Elected Fellow, National Academy of Human Resources"
  • 1993 "Listed in Business Week in 1993 as one of the "top ten" global executive educators"
  • 1992 "Awarded "paper of the year" award by Human Resource Planning Society"
  • 1991 "Awarded "researcher of the year" award by Society for Human Resource Management"

In Business

For the past 20 years Dave Ulrich has championed the HR profession, his commitment resulting in action to educate and evaluate hundreds of companies to improve their HR effectiveness. He is regarded and recognised as a guru in Human Resource Management and is leading the way in human resource management education and consulting.

Professor Ulrich has consulted and delivered research for over half of Fortune 200 listed companies, including AC Nielsen, Boeing, Dell, Merrill Lynch, Nissan and Philip Morris. He sits on the board of directors for Herman Miller and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources; and co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource Partnership.