HR Transformation - David Ulrich

Was forced to read this book as I had to go on a study trip on HR transformation, which I had very little idea about. Turns out that there is a whole new world to HR which I never knew about.

In a nutshell, driven by David Ulrich (who wrote the book), HR has been transforming itself structurally and functionally so that it could deliver more strategic value to businesses, a opposed to the basic and transactional work that HR traditionally performed. With the transformation, HR will raise its position as an equal partner alongside line managers. At the same time, the transactional work is agglomerated, technology-enabled and streamlined to cut costs.

During the trip to UK to study other organisations, I discovered that many organisations were implementing similar transformations in their HR functions. It does seem like there's some advances going on in the field of HR, and hopefully this field will grow bigger in the coming years. Might be an opportunity to capitalise on in the future, and makes my work now a little more relevant!