“In the past few years HR’s image has received a good deal of negative press from the infamous article, “Why I hate HR,” to the McKenzie leadership report on HR in 2008 to the recent diatribe at a major Finance conference by a well know PhD proclaiming HR is ruining businesses, and on. For HR professionals, this is ugly stuff – real ugly. And the alarming trends of deep sacking of HR leadership over the past two years clearly supports a willingness by business leaders to clear house in HR. Various reports claim that somewhere between 31% to 37% of senior HR management has been terminated over that time period………”