Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda For Adding Value and Delivering Results
Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda For Adding Value and Delivering Results
process people
Management of employee
Management of
contribution
Firm infrastructure
Venders
(consultants, sub-contractors, outsourcing p artners)
Now What?
• HR community will be propelled by seven
challenges for the future:
– HR Theory
– HR tools
– HR capacities
– HR value proposition
– HR governance
– HR careers
– HR competencies
Challenge one: HR Theory
• Resource dependence: deal with scarce resource
• Transaction cost: reduce the costs associated with
accomplishing and governing how work is done
• Contingency theory: align with business strategy to provide
a fit that leads to results
• Institutional theory: transfer knowledge and ideas from firm
to firm making the best practices of an industrial routine
• Cognitive psychology: help to create a shared mindset or
culture within the firm that reduces governance costs and increases
commitment
Challenge two: HR Tools
• Late 1970s: four core HR activities
– Staffing, development, appraisal, and rewards
• Global HR: different country’s hiring, compensation, benefits, training;
global thinking and strategy
• Leadership depth
– Individual leader will be replaced by team leader
– Interest in questions & learning will replace focus on solutions &
answers
• Knowledge transfer
– Who is hired? (those able & willing to seek and share ideas)
– How development is done
– How incentives are created (encourage transfer of knowledge)
– How communications are established (easily access and share
information)
– How organizations are organized (less hierarchy & more information
sharing)
Challenge two: HR Tools
• Culture change
– Commit to culture change
– Define a current culture
– Define the desired culture
– Expose culture gaps
– Prepare & implement culture action plans
– Coordinate culture-change efforts
– Measure results
• Customer-focused HR
Challenge three: HR Capabilities
Generalist
integrator
Specialist
contributor
Generalist Specialist
Business Mastery
Personal Credibility