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Oct 2023
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The Future of HR: Creating Irresistible ...

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin
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HR departments struggle to be all things to all stakeholders while delivering on the most strategic priorities of the business. But when we dig into the OS of HR, we find a resource-constrained function that contains multitudes. Long range people priorities are deemed negotiable, HR’s domain expertise isn’t respected, and the function acts as a service-provi ... Show More
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