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Enough Already! HR Is Rising (With I-O)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2017

Alexander Alonso*
Affiliation:
Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia
James N. Kurtessis
Affiliation:
Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia
Shonna D. Waters
Affiliation:
Society for Human Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Alexander Alonso, Society for Human Resource Management, 1800 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. E-mail: alexander.alonso@shrm.org

Extract

For years now, the call for human resources’ (HR's) head has been ringing through the halls of academic institutions and organizations throughout the globe. Whether it is Buckingham and Goodall (2015) calling for the total overhaul of performance management or Ram Charan (2014) asking us to split HR into the sum of its responsibilities, people have opinions of HR and the way it is practiced today and how it should be practiced in the future. The cavalcade of thought leaders, futurists, and soothsayers calling for the rethinking of HR seems longer than the procession at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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