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Challenges of an internal Human Resources consultant vulnerable to downsizing

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The Human Resources department is one of the business support organizations vulnerable to downsizing. More specifically, the HR strategic business partner...or organization consultant...may be ignored in preference to bringing in a presumed outside expert.

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Let's think together about some differences among the management consultants, social psychologists, and academic-based consultants and internal consultants.

Internal consultants to organizations may be located in the Human Resources department, perhaps in a strategic planning organization, or even in a functional discipline like marketing. I'll argue from having been an internal consultant that reputation within the organization, influence, and attributed expertise are important factors that determine the types of requests for help an internal consultant will get. These factors will also have a bearing on who asks for help and what kind of help. ...

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