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HR must be much more than an emergency room for personnel issues, says CIPD boss Jackie Orme

HR must be much more than an emergency room for personnel issues, says CIPD boss Jackie Orme

David Woods, 26 February 2009

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HR can no longer simply measure its success by good people management, but must focus on sustainable performance, innovation and leadership, according to the CIPD boss.

 

Jackie Orme, CEO of the CIPD, told HR directors at a networking lunch organised by Ceridian at the Ivy in London, HR should not just act as an "emergency room" for personnel issues but look after the long-term health of the workforce.

In order to get HR where it needs to be, Orme added, the industry needs to attract "the brightest and best" professionals and as a result, the organisation will be rethinking its qualifications and membership process.

She said: "We have to reposition the profession because its true value has not yet been fully explored. There is still a great deal of disillusionment about what the profession can do. The profession is still in its teenage years and has some way to go."

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Scott McArthur - 26 February 2009

Whilst I see where Orme is coming from, am I the only one that is getting sick and tierd of the HR profession and all its moaning and growning. There are already lots of great people in HR! It is the blind following of dogma - often by the CIPD and their inconsistant messaging about the functions role. Grow up HR? Well we have been around since the industrial revolution - which make is well beyond our teeage years. The professions behaviour towards technologies such as web 2.0 confirms that senility has set it! Come on get on with it!

Scott

http://mcarthursrant.blogspot.com/

 

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