Labor & Employment Law

HR (Finally) Gets a Seat at the Table? Apparently, Not

By Michael Fitzgibbon

Another in a long line of articles on the disconnect between HR and the business comes to us from Management Issues:

While, CFOs and CTOs are forging new working relationships and creating business cases for processes, programmes and technologies that track financial outcomes, HR as a whole is, by and large, not proactive enough to become a proper, strategic partner, it argued.

As an outsider (sort of), it seems so self-evident that HR should have a significant role at the boardroom table.  Yet, study after study and article after article suggests that, for a variety of reasons, they do not.  Some of the reasons (a good number of them in fact) relate to how they are perceived by business leaders. 

It's not enough to say, as the article appears to, that "we are a valuable asset and should have a central role in the strategic direction of the business".  To quote Neil Peart "show, don't tell" appears to be the lesson here as CFOs and CTOs have learned. 

Full post as published by Thoughts from a Management Lawyer on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).