No one doubts that the bar has been raised on human resources. HR professionals who would have been successful in previous decades may not be effective today. For HR professionals to respond to changing business conditions, they must demonstrate new competencies.

In this white paper, authors Dave Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank, Jon Younger, and Dani Johnson describe what is now required from those who work in HR to help their companies compete and how those competencies form a basis for assessment and improvement in the quality of HR professionals.