Der Personalverantwortliche als strategischer Partner

Wehner, Marius Claus; Kabst, Rüdiger; Meifert, Matthias T.; Cunz, Lisa Marie

doi:10.1007/s11573-012-0613-9

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“…Starting off as a mere administrative function, HR has by now evolved into a key firm-strategic cornerstone (Ferris et al 1999;Ulrich 1997), and human capital is the top challenge CEOs are facing (Mitchell et al 2014). Consequently, the leading role of the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) has also undergone substantial changes in the last decades and increased in importance (McKinsey 2020;Wehner et al 2012). CHROs ensure that employees and human factors remain a first priority for the top management team (TMT), thereby shaping a firm's strategic agenda (Charan et al 2009).…”

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CHRO firm dinosaur versus CHRO role gorilla: the effect of CHRO company and role tenure on firms’ social performance

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Academics and practitioners emphasize the rising importance of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs). CHROs act as heads of staff—they motivate the personnel and offer guidance. This study helps clarify the impact of increasingly relevant CHROs and reveals how their company and role tenure influence firms’ social performance. Drawing on a multisource longitudinal dataset of S&P 500 firms, we empirically validate our hypotheses. The sample contains 283 companies with 1944 firm-year observations from 2005 to 2017 and combines manually collected top management team data with data from Thomson Reuters Datastream. Our results show that there is a negative relation between CHROs with long company tenure and firms’ social performance, whereas CHROs with long role tenure positively relate to firms’ social performance. We also investigate the moderating role of CEO prior experience (i.e., HR experience, education, company and role experience) on the effect of CHRO company and role tenure on firms’ social performance. Surprisingly, CEO prior experience negatively moderates the relationship between CHRO role tenure and firms’ social performance. Overall, this article offers novel implications for the CHRO role and uncovers a distinction between two types of CHROs: CHRO firm dinosaurs versus CHRO role gorillas.

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