Purpose – HR leaders face a range of challenges on assuming responsibility for the function in their organizations. This paper aims to argue that if managed well, the actions of HR leaders over the first 90 days offer a significant opportunity to put the fundamentals for success in place; in...

Purpose – Traditional views of organizational culture have one thing in common; they define culture from the inside out – who we are, what we do and how we do it. In this article, the authors suggest that a more robust and practical approach to leveraging culture is to identify and shape...

Purpose – This paper aims to define the four basic organization design choices for HR, discuss the need to align the HR organization with the business organization, explore how to organize to turn HR knowledge into client productivity, and clarify the role of HR and how HR roles work together....

Purpose – This article aims to describe partial results of the 2012 Global Human Resources Competency Study (HRCS), led by the RBL Group and the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Design/methodology/approach – Over the past 25 years, this ongoing research project has provided...

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