We know that HR professionals are expected to be more skilled and effective partners to line managers in increasing organization performance. Our research, published in the recent book HR Competencies (Ulrich et al. 2008), points out six competency domains that describe the most important areas of HR professional and leader contribution—as perceived by both HR and line managers. These six competencies are depicted in Figure 1.
*This paper was originally published by Emerald Group Publishing.
