HR from the Outside In provides the concepts and tools HR professionals need to excel in six critical competencies: strategic positioner, credible activist, capability builder, change champion, HR innovator and integrator, and technology proponent. The book shows readers how to establish powerful strategies and structure an HR department so that the department delivers long-term value to the organization.

Next generation HR -- Research approach and findings -- Strategic positioner -- Credible activist -- Capability builder -- Change champion -- HR innovator and integrator -- Technology proponent -- Developing yourself as an HR professional -- The effective HR department -- What's so, so what, now what?.