SHRM – the Society for Human Resource Management – is the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Our mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most current and comprehensive resources, and to advance the profession by promoting HR’s essential, strategic role.
Founded in 1948, SHRM represents 250,000 individual members in every industry, in every state. We have 575 affiliate chapters across the U.S., some with several thousand members. SHRM operates offices in China and India, and SHRM members are in 140 countries and territories.
HR Education
SHRM's Resources for HR Educators Read about SHRM's HR education initiative...
HR and the Economy
Many organizations lose employees and profits because they don’t know which processes to put into place to cut employee turnover. Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad offers a top-to-bottom, organization-wide retention action plan. This hands-on tactical guide gives those answers, providing specific strategies and tactics backed by the author’s own research and on-site experience. If you are losing workers you want to keep—in good economic times and bad—this book will tell you how to put retention solutions in place across your company. More...
Resisting The Flu
H1N1 or "swine flu" is spreading globally and threatens to 
impact your workforce and business operations. But here's some good news. You can reduce infection rates in your workplace by training your employees to follow a few simple habits that stop them from spreading sickness to their coworkers--and help them avoid getting sick in the first place. More...
Health Costs: Better Prospects for Employers than for Employees
“After double-digit yearly growth rates in employers’ health benefit costs in the first half of the decade, the percentages dropped to single digits three years ago and remained there… A reason for the decline: Employers are taking steps to trim health costs.” More...
Labor Market and Economic Data: SHRM publishes monthly and quarterly labor market and economic research with data and statistics that are based on surveys of thousands of human resource professionals representing multiple industries in both the private and public sector. More...
SHRM PRESS ROOM
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