Strategic Versus Transactional HR: What Is The Difference? :: Mmegi Online

Looking back, many of us in the field were inducted into transactional HR, as opposed to strategic. We grew through the ranks, experiencing along the way increasingly more sophisticated terminology and technology in our departments; and, increasingly more stringent delivery expectations from our colleagues and users.

Case in point colleagues, is there a difference between strategic and transactional HR? Isn’t HR generally recruitment, reward and eventual retirement of people? Or talent if you prefer? Are these just semantics deployed in the fancier corporate environments?

They are not semantics actually. There is a real difference and the earlier we get it as practitioners in this field the sooner we can present a more professional, more corporate, more business savvy standard of delivery that will help our colleagues in management understand that HR is not just about filing staff records.

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