Mercer HR Consulting surveyed 300 senior European executives and discovered that HR staff are missing a lot of key skills, including business and financial understanding, the ability to manage projects, deploy technology and to improve customer service.
Philip Vernon, principal at Mercer, said: "Europe's HR executives tend to agree that HR is exhibiting broader business and operational management skills, but there's still a very strong emphasis on HR's traditional expertise.
As if we needed a research survey to find that out :-)
I am constantly surprised on meeting fellow HR professionals and discovering the shockingly low regard for broader business knowledge, specially sales and finance.
Well, that includes me too...my financial knowledge is pathetic :-)
Gautam,
ReplyDeleteis it because there is a lack of good blogs on the corporate finance . I am a finance person , who is a regular reader of your blog. The insights I gained predominantly from your blog , has helped to contribute substantially to the HR strategy of our company.Thanks
hi Manoj
ReplyDeleteThanks ! You made my day !
I don't think it's because there is a lack of good blogs on corporate finance. I am sure if we were to search there might be some great blogs.