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Inviting New Voices to the Table: HR as a Strategic Partner

HR Digest

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories. They need to explore how they can help HR become a strategic partner by providing them with the resources they need.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Managing People from 5 Generations

Harvard Business Review

Meister, a founding partner of Future Workplace, a human resources consultancy and the coauthor of The 2020 Workplace. Generation-based employee affinity groups are a waste of time and energy, he adds. Then “use that information to look critically at your human resources and business strategies. Don’t.