{"id":419,"date":"2019-07-26T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/?post_type=chapter&p=419"},"modified":"2024-04-24T23:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T23:19:24","slug":"putting-it-together-the-role-of-human-resources","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/chapter\/putting-it-together-the-role-of-human-resources\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: The Role of Human Resources","rendered":"Putting It Together: The Role of Human Resources"},"content":{"raw":"It\u2019s interesting and, perhaps, reassuring to note that people have always felt that they live in pivotal times. One of the first recorded references to the Chinese term for \"crisis\" as both a danger and an opportunity was in a 1938 editorial titled \"The Challenge of Unusual Times.\u201d The point the author makes is worth considering; specifically, without danger, there is no opportunity. As we engage in the next industrial revolution\u2014Industry 4.0\u2014the sense that we are at an \u201cincipient and dangerous moment\u201d is pervasive. How we navigate this change will have broad\u2014perhaps global\u2014implications for business, government and society.\r\n\r\n\"Image\r\n\r\nAs global accounting and advisory firm KPMG observes in a recent publication: \u201cIt\u2019s a brave, evolving world for Human Resources (HR). Roles are changing, expectations are rising, boundaries are blurring, and organizations are charting new and more complex territory. These factors are transforming the HR function and positioning HR professionals as strategy partners at the leaders\u2019 table.\u201d[footnote]\"The Evolution of HR.<\/a>\" KPMG. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2019.[\/footnote]","rendered":"

It\u2019s interesting and, perhaps, reassuring to note that people have always felt that they live in pivotal times. One of the first recorded references to the Chinese term for “crisis” as both a danger and an opportunity was in a 1938 editorial titled “The Challenge of Unusual Times.\u201d The point the author makes is worth considering; specifically, without danger, there is no opportunity. As we engage in the next industrial revolution\u2014Industry 4.0\u2014the sense that we are at an \u201cincipient and dangerous moment\u201d is pervasive. How we navigate this change will have broad\u2014perhaps global\u2014implications for business, government and society.<\/p>\n

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As global accounting and advisory firm KPMG observes in a recent publication: \u201cIt\u2019s a brave, evolving world for Human Resources (HR). Roles are changing, expectations are rising, boundaries are blurring, and organizations are charting new and more complex territory. These factors are transforming the HR function and positioning HR professionals as strategy partners at the leaders\u2019 table.\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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