Both specialists and generalists can find a home here, with specialist tracks ranging from training to pension plan administration to legal compliance. In HR, there’s something for just about everyone.
Long considered a support role, in recent years HR has taken on an increasingly strategic dimension in the world of business as managers have recognized employees as a source of competitive advantage. Various companies have shown that HR practices that create supportive environments for employees and strong corporate cultures can lead to superior returns for share holders by being more innovative, efficient, and productive than their peers. Meanwhile, globalization has complicated the HR role, creating new challenges, such as managing employees and overseeing employee regulations in different countries and cultures, while technology has created a newarray of opportunities for streamlining HR administration and practice-everything from putting benefits programs online to e-learning to automating payroll and other administrative HR tasks.