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Mercer Human Resource Consulting recently released their report on the 2006 Global HR Transformation Study. The study includes responses from 1400 organisations in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, New Zealand and North America. Eighty eight HR executives from Australian organisations were surveyed.
The executive summary highlighted Australian HR executives considered that:
- the critical human capital challenges they are facing in organisations are building leadership capability, acquiring and retaining key talent and driving cultural change
- not all HR functions or executives are skilled enough to help organisations in meeting these challenges; particularly with respect to business improvement, cultural change and business strategy
- one of the reasons they are not seen as a strategic partner is because they are spending more time on transactional and compliance activities than on strategic interventions.
I could not agree more, but this is not a new problem. HR practitioners should be taking responsibility for their own development. This is sometimes hard when they stuck in high-pressured, reactive transactional roles and do not have the time to build skills. The thing is, that if HR does not start building the skills required to be a strategic partner then they will be stuck in the reactive transactional rut.
So what can you do as a HR professional? Start educating yourself! Read everything you can including publications, online journals and blogs such as Human Resources Magazine, Human Capital Magazine-Australia, CIO and Corporate Leadership Council, keep coming back to Shifted HR, share what you find (that is why I started).
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I've found that most HR teams are undervalued, underpaid, and have no power to influence real change in terms of revolutionalising the way people see them, let alone being able implement change.
How do you think HR managers need to drive change in their organisations to get the things done that you've suggested here?
M
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the HR blogosphere! I have subscribed and look forward to more posts.
You might be interested in some of the discussion going on at Thomas Otter's blog on this very subject, I have been very lack in posting about the myself.
http://theotherthomasotter.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/hr-hcm-folks-does-this-concern-you/
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