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HRCI PARTNERS WITH DAVE ULRICH ON GLOBAL HR COMPETENCY STUDY
<sub>September 23, 2014
By: Amy Dufrane, ED.D., SPHR, CAE

Executive Director, HRCI</sub>
 Those of you who have been following us lately have seen a pattern – HRCI is making new alliances, like the recently announced partnership with the largest HR association in Mexico, AMEDIRH. It’s just one of the ways we’re growing and moving forward!
I couldn’t be more excited about our newest partnership – the one we’re announcing today with Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank, both renowned HR professors, authors and consultants. Anyone involved in strategic HR knows Dave and Wayne as among the greatest thinkers and writers on strategic HR. Dave has been ranked the #1 Management Educator & Guru by Bloomberg Businessweek and was selected by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative and creative leaders. Wayne has authored groundbreaking works on HR strategy and competencies. In 1989, 1996 and 2000, he received the best HR paper of the year from SHRM and Human Resource Planning Society.

We’ll be partnering with Dave’s consulting firm, The RBL Group, and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in the seventh round of the world’s largest study of HR competencies. Called the Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS), this work has provided a fundamental framing of the competencies and agendas for human resource professionals since it was begun in 1987. The study tracks major trends and helps HR professionals and departments add greater value to their organizations. More than 63,000 people worldwide have participated in the study.
HRCI will serve as a regional partner and will focus on North America. We will help evaluate how HR competencies are changing and how those competencies drive business performance. HRCI will help create the survey, recruit and register North American corporate and individual participants, advise in the analysis of results, define regional trends, sponsor and host a regional feedback conference and write and publish the regional results in local and international journals and magazines.
The HRCS has long been an important element in our periodic literature reviews. It’s part of how HR competencies are incorporated into our exams. With all the talk recently about competencies, it’s noteworthy that we’re not just talking about competencies. We’re involved in developing them with the world’s most credible independent experts. Here is some more information about HRCS.
This alliance is the type of natural fit that HRCI loves. It’s a genuine collaboration at the level you expect and depend on from us. It’s part of our contribution to the HR profession that distinguishes us just as our credentials distinguish our more than 135,000 certificants.

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source: http://www.hrci.org/certified-community/blog-archive/certification-matters/2014/09/23/hrci-partners-with-dave-ulrich-on-global-hr-competency-study