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How HR Capabilities Evolve with Business Growth [+ 5 Tips for HR Leaders]

AIHR

HR has to play a role in stretching current talent and driving a performance culture while also helping the business with the relevant organizational design to execute its growth ambitions. Primary HR capabilities: Operational efficiency, leadership development, employee experience and engagement, HR strategy, and succession planning.

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CHROs Are Failing and It’s Our Fault: 5 Barriers to CHRO Career Success

AIHR

Even before the pandemic, the CHRO scope changed to include the inclusion of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) as a critical strategic priority. Given the changing nature of the CHRO role, the current CHRO talent development approach cannot overcome these challenges.

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Why Family Firms in East Asia Struggle with Succession

Harvard Business Review

Around the world, you’ll find family businesses that have fallen into decline due to inadequate governance, poor talent management, and absent or improper succession planning. In order to deactivate it, these companies must heed the lessons of the successful family firms we’ve analyzed.

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Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. Boards cannot govern effectively if they’re missing key skill sets. Skills and Assessment.

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Getting More Women into Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

I would rather see corporate leaders step up than have to rely on government action. The CEO and other top leaders should sit on the committee responsible for developing diverse slates for promotions and for new hires. Corporate boards in Europe have far more women than boards in the U.S.,

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Why Is CEO Pay Rising? Maybe There Aren’t Enough Good CEOs

Harvard Business Review

.” On average, directors believe that “it is difficult to evaluate prospective CEO talent during a search process because a candidate might meet all the criteria in terms of previous work experience but it is still hard to tell whether he or she would be a successful CEO.” Succession planning is critical.

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A More Effective Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

To be truly effective, a board needs directors who can work as a group to clearly define their role and mission, and in specialized individual roles, such as succession planning, acquisitions and capital allocation. Effective corporate governance is more complex and challenging than ever.