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Andrew Mayo

By Andrew Mayo (September 2007 Issue)
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It is now ten years since Professor Dave Ulrich published his Human Resource Champions. In it, he introduced the role of ‘strategic business partner’, which captured the imagination of a function that has always had an inferiority and ‘unloved’ complex. A process of so-called ‘transformation’ continues today, with the aim of providing more time and space to be ‘strategic’.

Nevertheless, continuing surveys show that HR struggles with this. This is surely no surprise, nor anything to feel bad about per se. After all, line managers don’t spend all their time ‘being strategic’ – they get on with the daily job, working towards their objectives and solving problems.

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