Hi everyone, hehe I'm just curious here... part of my main interest includes studying leadership and I'm always interested in CEO profiles. However I seem to find this trend - there arent any CEOs who are from the HR department - most CEOs I read usually come from either a technical background OR if they're from the commecial side, they usually were either from Finance, Accounting or Marketing. I think the reason behind this is maybe perhaps HR is not really looked upon as a crucial field in the business and therefore the board of directors usually look at other departments to elect aCEO. This is just my reasoning, what do you guys think?
From Canada, Windsor
From Canada, Windsor
Hi This issue has been addressed & please refer the article titled HR heads become CEOs and business Leaders by GG in the Articles by Forum members... Cheerio Rajat
From India, Pune
101From India, Pune
HR as business leaders, SHRM has been focusing on HR's strategic role and its impact on business, there are CEO's who's at one time adorned the HR Cap, its just that we don't know - I think if HR have the right ingredients( strong business acumen ) to becoming a CEO, he/she will be in the running.
hi There was a beautiful article on this subject in VP of HR Newsletter by Dr. John Sullivan I have attached the same . REgards Ashit
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
This is an unique generalisation and in a way a myth
that HR background people do not become CEOs!!!
when we take a look at the options at which even
Learners at B-schools opting for the specialisations
not necessarily it is found that ,have an
inclination at many out of all the times to makea confident decision on
their career from the initial stages right from the beginning of their
careers paths /progress decide in favour of HR
If for otherwise we need to not have a know
of numbers which people choose is as a basis to
conclude that it is not a most opted or favoured
Nextly,If it is their choice for they could not become CEOs is
rather very much notional rather than rational....
It is that beauty of HR that they need to co-ordinate /control etc all the
guys /gals apart from HR all other areas of the organisational
constitutents in MKTG,FIN,SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS et al.
For it becomes all the more important to know even more about the
other domains in which expertise and exposure is essentially needed for
being sucessful
For this requires a lot of patience/percevernce/perception and
in the fast world people opting for short-cuts and
not ethically sound practices where we can term the name of the context
in "MAYA" the world is full or all of its cloud
as cited in BHAGAVATH GITA
If the society undertstands the truth and
believe it then there is no shortcut for success
then only people from HR background
only then can become CEO this is liekly in the future
and just might be a matter of time
may be one could consider this is my view for those who do not agree
and i leave it for each one and self to come to a conclusion on their
choices
and add on to their views to
kriskumars
chennai
india
\
From India, Madras
that HR background people do not become CEOs!!!
when we take a look at the options at which even
Learners at B-schools opting for the specialisations
not necessarily it is found that ,have an
inclination at many out of all the times to makea confident decision on
their career from the initial stages right from the beginning of their
careers paths /progress decide in favour of HR
If for otherwise we need to not have a know
of numbers which people choose is as a basis to
conclude that it is not a most opted or favoured
Nextly,If it is their choice for they could not become CEOs is
rather very much notional rather than rational....
It is that beauty of HR that they need to co-ordinate /control etc all the
guys /gals apart from HR all other areas of the organisational
constitutents in MKTG,FIN,SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS et al.
For it becomes all the more important to know even more about the
other domains in which expertise and exposure is essentially needed for
being sucessful
For this requires a lot of patience/percevernce/perception and
in the fast world people opting for short-cuts and
not ethically sound practices where we can term the name of the context
in "MAYA" the world is full or all of its cloud
as cited in BHAGAVATH GITA
If the society undertstands the truth and
believe it then there is no shortcut for success
then only people from HR background
only then can become CEO this is liekly in the future
and just might be a matter of time
may be one could consider this is my view for those who do not agree
and i leave it for each one and self to come to a conclusion on their
choices
and add on to their views to
kriskumars
chennai
india
\
From India, Madras
Community Support and Knowledge-base on business, career and organisational prospects and issues - Register and Log In to CiteHR and post your query, download formats and be part of a fostered community of professionals.
7 Rules of Excellence for HR Managers.doc