Society for Human Resource Management

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 205,000 individual members, the Society's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available. As an influential voice, the Society's mission is also to advance the human resource field to ensure that HR is recognized as an essential partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. Founded in 1948, SHRM currently has more than 550 affiliated chapters and members in more than 100 countries.


[edit] SHRM's Members

SHRM is an individual membership organization, and our members include HR professionals with the following titles:

  • President
    • CEO
    • Chairman
    • Partner
    • Principal
  • Chief HR Officer
  • Vice President of HR, Personnel
  • Assistant/Associate Vice President of HR
  • Director of HR, Personnel
  • Assistant/Associate Director of HR
  • Manager of HR, Personnel
  • HR Generalist
  • Supervisor
  • Specialist
  • Consultant
  • Administrator
  • Representative
  • Legal Counsel

Nearly forty percent have titles of director or above. Approximately fifty percent of members work in organizations with more than 500 employees, and approximately thirty-five percent are in manufacturing or service industries. SHRM took its current name in 1948. It was formerly called the American Society for Personnel Administration.


[edit] SHRM Local Chapter Network

SHRM has more than 560 affiliate chapters both in the United States and abroad, and provide additional programming and networking opportunities in your local area. SHRM chapters are autonomous organizations, so it is not automatic that you will be a member of your local chapter when you join SHRM at the national level, and vice versa. Information on how to join you SHRM local chapter is available at www.shrm.org/chapters. Human resource management is now considered an important function--it plays a major role in most organizations.

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