Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have focused on the strategy and direction of HR departments. This article examines the next evolution for how HR department organization structure can deliver value based on two...

With escalating expectations and opportunities for HR professionals to add greater value comes the mandate for greater knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR professionals have foundational knowledge of HR concepts...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact that HR departments have on alternative stakeholders when they focus on improving the organization’s information capability instead of focusing their information agenda on human resource (HR) departmental activities....

Why HR and why now? -- The empirical basis of HR effectiveness -- Why organization matters: the value of the organization beyond individual talent -- High priority HR practices: information management and integrated HR practices -- High priority HR practices: employee performance and HR...