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EquaTerra: HR Market Update 2008

Summary:
This three-part Perspectives series presents and analyzes the findings from a recently completed EquaTerra and Human Resource Executive® magazine market research study. This study assessed the current state of human resources (HR) organizations and their progress and success in performing as a strategic corporate asset. The study assessed the realities of HR transformation as a means to make HR groups more strategic, how organizations are pursuing HR transformation, and the role alternative service delivery models – like shared services or information technology and business process outsourcing (ITO/BPO) – are playing in enabling transformation. The study was a follow-up to a similar research effort conducted in 2005.

Part One of this 2008 study assesses HR’s role as a strategic corporate asset and identifies the activities HR groups should prioritize to become more strategic. Part Two reviews the role of alternative service delivery models like shared services and outsourcing in making HR more strategic. Part Three reviews the state of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) in today’s market.

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Part 1: Assessing Human Resource’s Role as a Strategic Corporate Asset
Part 2: Role of Alternative Service Delivery Models
Part 3: Recruitment Process Outsourcing: State of the Market