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What’s keeping HR up? 5 key takeaways about changing priorities

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While hiring and retaining key talent again claimed the top spot among HRs challenges, human resources continues to broaden its aperture, seemingly driven by external shifts. In 2022, for example, nearly 50% of HR professionals surveyed were focused on hiring and retention, a figure that dropped to 36% the following year and 32% in 2024.

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Interim chief HR officers: Why are they so popular today?

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The strategic nature of HR functions is becoming increasingly critical to business success today. The ensuing HR transformations, a new report finds, are driving a dramatic rise in the number of interim CHROs being asked to maintain continuity in times of change. year over year, from 2022 to the first half of 2024.

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The ‘secret sauce’ to great HR leadership? This CHRO has an idea

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I dont have a lot of my anxiety in my system, says Marshall, executive vice president and CHRO of global power management company Eaton. Its about not just accepting the status quoto move our organizations forward and our HR teams forward, we have to continually every year set a bar thats higher than we think we can reach, he says.

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Innovation at IBM: Announcing the 2024 HR Executive of the Year

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At the time, she envisioned the gig as a “quick stop” in HR, to get her professional feet wet and make some money before starting law school. Today, she sits in the CHRO office of the tech giant, overseeing the entire global people operations for the more than 250,000-person IBM workforce. LaMoreaux says.

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What one NAHR Distinguished Fellow sees as HR’s most ‘substantial’ transformation

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Kevin Cox, most recently the CHRO of GE, was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and when he was elevated to the organizations most prestigious HR leadership honor: Distinguished Fellow , a designation bestowed at an HR star-studded event in New York City in November. Thats really a function of experience.

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A new ‘power duo’ emerges as the C-suite increasingly relies on HR leadership

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To do this, CHROs and the rest of the C-suite must be in sync more than ever before, according to Canney. There is a major increase in the C-level importance of the CHRO,” Bersin wrote in a June 2024 blog post. C-level priorities vary by sector, affecting HR leaders’ goals.

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How AMD’s culture transformation made it an org Most Admired for HR

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Organizations topping this year’s Most Admired for HR list — a ranking of the world’s standout HR functions recalibrated from Korn Ferry and Fortune ‘s World’s Most Admired Companies research — represent different industries and revenues and have divergent strategies for people and business success.