In the HR business partner model, the human resource department participates in strategic planning to help the business meet present and future goals. Rather than concentrating solely on HR duties ...

When I first started in HR, everyone saw our department as just the group that planned the company picnic. And they thought those picnics were equivalent to employee engagement. But these kinds of ...

, a Hyderabad-based HR consulting firm, has developed a three-layer service model that cuts human resource costs by 50-55 ...

There was a time not long ago when “getting HR involved” generally meant diffusing an employee relations issue. Twentieth-century HR was all about control, enforcing compliance around hiring, training ...

The role of a fractional chief human resources officer (CHRO) has emerged as a transformative force in the business landscape. The strategic deployment of fractional CHROs has proven instrumental in ...

This paper outlines the issues in relation to the strategic human resource management (HRM) process in organisations from three industries that have experienced a high degree of change during the last ...

Finance is a vital partner—not HR’s North Star. Overreliance on the CFO keeps CHROs stuck as cost custodians. This article ...

One can make the argument that the performance of every business is derived from the talent of the people inside the organization. That talent edge is even more pronounced in, say, a professional ...

At Cycle & Carriage Singapore, a multi-entity business undergoing constant expansion, the shift from HR partner to growth ...

Human resources functional activity supports strategic initiatives. Strategic planning drives functional or transactional processes. HR managers are capable of implementing strategy and carrying out ...

Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 2 (May 2012), pp. 55-70 (16 pages) This paper outlines important ideological, institutional, and cultural contexts that shape what strategic human ...