SHRM Overview for AmChams
AACCLA Conference
October 19, 2011
SHRM Overview
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What is SHRM?
• Established in 1948
• Not-for-profit organization, $100+ million revenue derived from
dues and non-dues sources
• 260,000 individual members
• Members in 146 countries
• 380 paid full-time staff
• 4,100 volunteer leaders
• 580 chapters in the United States
• Representative Office in China
• Subsidiary company in India
• Selected training and delivery partners in: Canada, China, GCC,
Mexico, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia
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SHRM GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP
• SHRM Board of Directors
• SHRM Global Leadership Team
• SHRM Code of Ethics
• SHRM Bylaws
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Mission
SHRM is the global HR professional organization that exists to:
• Build and sustain partnerships with human resource professionals, media, governments,
non-governmental organizations, businesses and academic institutions to address people
management challenges that influence the effectiveness and sustainability of their
organizations and communities.
• Provide a community for human resource professionals to share expertise and create
innovative solutions on people management issues.
• Proactively provide thought leadership, education and research to human resource
professionals, media, governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses and
academic institutions.
• Serve as an advocate to ensure that policy makers, law makers and regulators are aware of
key people concerns facing organizations and the human resource profession.
Values
What We Do Matters, Our Members Matter, Our People Matter, Our Culture Matters
How We do Things Matters
Vision
• SHRM will be a globally recognized authority whose voice is heard on the most
pressing people management issues of the day – now and in the future.
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SHRM Affiliates
• SHRM Foundation: formed in 1966 to encourage the following
activities:
• Fund research to expand HR knowledge
• Organize annual Thought Leaders retreat
• Fund and award scholarships
• Fund and award research grants
http://www.shrm.org/foundation/
• HR Certification Institute: founded in 1976 to develop and
administer certification exams:
• Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
• Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
• Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR)
• Over 100,000 HR professionals certified in 70 countries
http://www.hrci.org
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International Affiliations
North American Human Resource
Management Association (NAHRMA)
 HR associations from Canada, Mexico,
and the US
World Federation of People Management
Associations (WFPMA)
 75 member associations from 5 continental
regions
 includes FIDAGH (Inter-American
Federation of Human Resource Management)
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SHRM Provides…
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Community
• More than 260,000 individual members worldwide
• Annual fees US$180. Internet membership for non-U.S. is
US$95 per year
• 580 chapters nationwide in the U.S.
• Members in over 140 countries
• (8,000+ outside US)
• Networking opportunities
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Information Online at www.shrm.org
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Research and survey findings…
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Benchmarking
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HRMagazine – award winning monthly
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Conferences
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Educational Programs/Seminars
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Certification Preparation
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Certification Preparation
The SHRM Learning System
& SHRM Global Learning
System allow individuals to
pursue self-paced learning in
preparation for certification
exams (books, CDs, sample
exam questions, web links).
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e-Learning
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Diversity
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Academic Initiative
SHRM’s Academic Initiative is setting the
agenda for educational requirements and
underscoring the point that HR is a profession
with specific educational requirements.
• Business schools are following SHRM’s
recommended curriculum and approach
toward educating HR business students.
• Developing highly-qualified, competent
new-entries to the workforce.
• Over 257 undergraduate and graduate
HR programs at 205 different universities
have adopted the SHRM curriculum,
including in Mexico and Dominican
Republic
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SHRM Corporate Training
SHRM Corporate Training builds and delivers custom programs
and workshops that align HR departments more closely with
organizational goals and ultimately increase performance levels
across the entire organization.
• Programs include:
• Preparation for HR Certification Exams
• General HR Competencies
• HR Specific Skills
• Regulatory and Legal Compliance Training
• Customized, client-centered solutions
HR Standards Effort
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SHRM recognized by
• ANSI to lead development of HR
Standards in US
• ISO to coordinate global
development of HR Standards
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TC 260 - Human resource management
Has 13 countries participating, 18 countries
observing, all through their respective national
standards bodies.
Opportunity for Latin American and Caribbean
HR practitioners to get involved, engage their
national standards bodies, and contribute to
definition of HR standards worldwide
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Cost-Per-Hire Metric
Minimum Effective Job Description
Minimum Effective Workforce Plan
Performance Management Goal Setting
Improvement Planning, and Appraisals
Diversity Metrics
HR Dashboard
Human Capital Metrics for Investors
Turnover Metric
Opportunities for AmChams
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AmCham HR Committees or Task Forces may
• Promote Group Delegations to SHRM’s Annual
Conference
• Improve future of HR professionals, via liaison and
linkage through SHRM’s Academic Initiative to LAC
universities with HR degree programs
• Involve LAC HR practitioners in HR Standards
development
• Create opportunities, with preferential pricing, for
SHRM membership
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Questions?