We invite your participation in the conversation “reimagining Human Resources.”
Let us begin this conversation on reimagining Human Resources with a trusty google search for a baseline definition of Human Resources.
Here is what we come up with:
The first expansion of this definition immediately leads to functional, legal, and operational role of HR:
A broader more generalized definition:
That doesn’t feel right, does it? At the end of the great recession a trend emerged to give HR executives titles including the word “people”, such as Vice President, People. Also, we noticed the word Talent is used for many Human Resource roles. Training and development became talent development.
The title and reality are often divergent.
Tension will always exist between narrowly viewing labor as a commodity and empowering people to do their best work and experience holistic fulfillment. This tension is not necessarily unhealthy, either for the organization or for its people. But without strategic leadership, short-term labor concerns drown out long-term culture concerns.
Two factors we can quickly agree on:
Regardless of position, function, or role, we are all responsible for people leadership. It is not all up to the HR department.
Emerging from the recent crisis provides unprecedented opportunity to reimagine leadership from multiple perspectives.
Leadership Beyond has chosen “Reimagining Human Resources” as our first community of conversation series. Check out this video of Tom and Adrienne starting this discussion.
Here is where you come in:
To cultivate a leadership beyond, we must include multiple viewpoints from a diverse audience of established and emerging leaders.
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