What do CEOs need from HR in tough times?

By: Dr. Epitropaki Olga, The Stavros Costopoulos Chair in Human Resource Management and Development, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management, MSc in Strategic HRM Academic Director

Adverse conditions provide an excellent setting for HR to prove its strategic role, its adaptive mindset and its ability to build core organizational capability for the future.

If in times of prosperity CEOs mainly expected HR to invest time and energy in staffing, recruitment, talent attraction and performance management, what can they expect from HR in times of adversity? What is the current value-proposition of HR?