Helping the Executive Team with Its 4 Rs—Recruit, Reward, Retain, and Retire Talent

Abstract

A basic message of this book is that HR professionals need to learn more about business, and get better at it, and business executives need to learn more about HR and get better at managing people. The senior HR professional in the C-Suite is the one who must play a pivotal role in assisting the CEO and other members of the executive team adopt a mindset in which human resource management is thought of as a critical business process. The influencing and facilitation skills needed by the senior HR executive to operate effectively in the C-Suite are put to best use by helping the CEO and the senior executive team embrace the concept that, as stewards of the enterprise, one of their core responsibilities is to actively participate in the human resource management business process and not “contract it out” to the HR department.