Human resources management in small businesses can be highly structured as in large organizations, or less structured to permit flexibility in workforce planning, staffing and HR control over the ...

Strategic human resources management places greater importance on managing people than on performing operational tasks. The goal is to integrate human resources as a full strategic business partner ...

Conferences, certifications, and consultants have repeated the mantra. But in practice, strategic has too often meant HR demonstrating business vocabulary without owning business outcomes. It has ...

A growing number of HR professionals who are reshaping the business community’s expectations of how HR functions within organizations and of the value that the profession can bring to a rapidly ...

For almost 30 years the HR competency study (HRCS) has empirically defined the competencies of HR professionals and how those competencies impact performance. In this round we collected more than ...

HR PROFESSIONALS must become “credible activists” mastering competencies dealing with both people and business issues in order to become successful practitioners. This competency, described as “HR ...

Similar projects are underway in the UK, Australia, and Canada, and the SABPP is benchmarking itself against leading nations and recognised professions, such as accountancy and engineering. The ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it is updating the list of skills required to be a human resources specialist at federal agencies, a move it says will make progress ...

Modern HR must take on many roles to demonstrate competence and effectiveness, say DAVE ULRICH, JON YOUNGER, WAYNE BROCKBANK and MIKE ULRICH, who celebrate 25 years ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...