Strategic HR Review: Volume 22 Issue 5

Editorial YAY, AI!

Javier Bajer

The age of automation: what skills do employees need to stay relevant?

Liam Murphy

This viewpoint paper envisions the key competencies that employees should cultivate to thrive amidst the age of automation.

Employees out of sight, out of mind?

Toby Hough

Out of sight, out of mind is not a new phenomenon. It is always been a challenge for employers with a distributed workforce. However, what is new is the scale, so employers need…

On the front line of workforce transformation: is HR missing its moment?

Pat Petitti, Jon Younger

This study aims to describe the role of HR in people-related transformation.

Cultivating post-acquisition employee engagement: the Danaher business system

Muriel Durand, Gregory Hansen, Mark Thomas

One of major concerns of serial acquirers is to ensure value creation. However, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are well known for the key management problems they generate such…

Onboarding: just how important is it?

Brett S. Bowers, Alfred E. Thal, John J. Elshaw

Employee retention has become a greater challenge for organizations as today’s employees are more likely to voluntarily change organizations than previous generations. Therefore…

Towards a future-proof organisation: using foresight in HR and organisational development

Sophie Ambrosat, Christian Grünwald

Although trends such as digitisation, demographic change and flexibilisation of work have been recognised by many human resource (HR) practitioners, this viewpoint paper argues…

The accuracy of the Motivating By Appreciation Inventory: a construct validity study

Paul White

The purpose of this study was to explore the question: Does the Motivating By Appreciation (MBA) Inventory accurately identify the ways that individuals prefer to be shown…