Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …

Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have … organization structure of the business and (2) because diversified/allied business models prevail, it is important to lay out the …

knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR … professionals must be fully versant about external business realities that directly or indirectly influence how to apply that … knowledge. We examine four of the most central categories of external business knowledge: advancements in technology, the causes …