The Evolving Role of the Chief HR Officer or CHRO

With the rapid transformational strides being made in enterprises and businesses around the globe, the role of the Chief People Officer or the Chief HR Officer (CHRO), too, must undergo a due alteration in accordance with the changing needs of the present times. Ravin Jesuthasan, in this video by myHRfuture, addresses the changing demands of the Chief HR Officer (CHRO) by referring to a recent study conducted among more than five hundred professionals associated with the very same field.

Jesuthasan says what emerged as the first pivotal point that must accompany the change within the role of the Chief People Officer is the urge or drive to adapt and transcend boundaries in an organization. This must be supported by the adoption of digitalization. As the third point, Ravin designates undertaking innovation in order to induce alteration to the role of the Chief People Officer. The next crucial step, as per Jesuthasan is to invoke in leadership positions a sense of true inclusivity to effectuate positive change followed and aided by promoting HR decision science, in the long run. The essence of HR and its methodology, Ravin says, must be to understand behavior, analyze it through tools, and thereby, introduce alterations by evaluating the multiple dimensions involved without quite replacing or omitting the core principles driving it so far.

The transforming reality widens the possibilities that come within the traditional role of the Chief Human Resource Officer. Following these five pointers are bound to redefine the role by amplifying its efficacy and its outreach, in the days to come.