Strategic Versus Transactional HR: What Is The Difference?

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.