Applying business disciplines to HR

Abstract

Restructuring, streamlining, downsizing and redundancies have been commonplace in recent years as the corporates of the Western world gear up for a highly competitive, globalised marketplace governed by the “survival of the fittest” rule. HR has been at the heart of cost‐cutting exercises, from strategic input to transactional tasks. Perhaps as a result of this key role played in cost reduction initiatives, or due to the intangible nature of many HR services, or purely as a continuation of the streamlining trend, the HR department itself has been vigorously called upon to define its own value and to prove the efficiency of its operations.

Citation

Nolan, S. (2007), "Applying business disciplines to HR", Strategic HR Review, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 2-2. https://doi.org/10.1108/14754390980000971