The future HR professional: Competency buttressed by advocacy and ethics
✍ Scribed by Michael R. Losey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 58 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
it are bought, but they are not owned and when the time comes they cannot be spent." Machiavelli s The suggestion that anyone can do HR work is simply not true. My introduction to human resource management began more than thirty-five years ago at the University of Michigan's Business School. There, I studied under and worked for Dr. George Odiorne, the director for what was once the school's Bureau of Industrial Relations. Dr. Odiorne, in fact, started what is now this well-respected journal the year I graduated. Therefore, it is with much personal and professional gratification that I offer my perspective on the future of the human resource management profession for this inaugural issue of the new Human Resource Management. Also, given my day-to-day accountability for the world's largest professional human resource society, I asked myself what I could contribute to this journal to permit those who share my interest in the profession to gain a new perspective? Then, I thought of a January 1996 Fortune article by Thomas Stewart urging CEOs to "Blow the sucker (HR) up." In his article, Mr. Stewart suggests that the human resource (HR) function provides essentially no added value and that other functions could handle what little HR contributes to the effectiveness of an organization.
Is this true? Should HR folks be updating