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Can HR heads take the CEO position of a company??

Created by : Darshana Sawant, HR Manager, Leading IT services company  | 11 06 2010 07:05:47 +0000
Industry : Human Resources (HR) ConsultingFunctional Area : Organizational Development(People Management)
Keywords : hr recruitment human resource talent management people management hr heads
Activity:  650 views;  last activity : 11 19 2010 11:10:01 +0000

The key CXO roles like CEO and COO, the all time reserved roles for chief technology officers or the number crunching chief financial officers in the country has given a new face to it. A growing trend of HR people being picked for such roles becoming popular now a days. During the mid-nineties , technology was perceived to be the main driver and technology personnel dominated the higher management . Techies like Steve Jobs of Apple, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google and closer home, S Ramadorai of TCS, were in the saddle.

So, what do you think people can HR heads take the CEO positions of a company??

  
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I believe HR is no longer just a human resources function but a business function that affects bottomlines. And it's not only just attrition that organizations are looking to reduce. Companies are paying greater attention to overall organizational culture and employee engagement which can have a big impact on productivity.

Around 70 percent of a CEO's role relates to people management . So companies look for either someone with an HR background or a strong HR. In some other places, even though the official designation might not represent it, HR managers are increasingly playing a more dominant role in the running of the company.
By Darshana Sawant, HR Manager, Leading IT services company  11 06 2010 07:05:47 +0000
 
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I believe that HRM is a technical field. Hence so manytimes I refer HR as HUMAN RELATION ENGINEERING.It is Engineering because which Human, a most important component of any company, will most productively fit in which place is called engineering.
By Kirit Mehta, Freelancer, Oil & Gas  | 11 19 2010 11:10:00 +0000
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Dear Folks!!! Yes a HR head can take CEO position in the company if he/she knows the technicalities involved in all the verticals of the org., knows the inside out of the business and has complete knowledge about his/her org..    Thanks & regards        

 Very truly                                                   

Harminder Singh Gumbhir

TSB(Tehzeeb Square Boy) Lucknow
By Harminder Singh Gumbhir, MBA/PGDM student, nil  | 11 10 2010 04:28:40 +0000
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why not?. In my previous company, ALL the HR heads so far have been engineeers.
By V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology  | 11 08 2010 14:22:22 +0000
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I am against the whole topic because its not the expertise in a functional area that makes you the leader of a company , rather its a person's holistic knowledge about the working of the company that should earn him the position of the CEO. I have come across application engineers who have a good knowledge of the customer base and I have come across sales personal who have good people skill and tremendous rapport across the employee ladder. The same can be said about people belonging to every functional area. The jist is that he or she should be capable of meeting the short term and long term goals of the company through his ability to lead the head of the department of individual functional teams. If some one can do the above, he can be made a CEO. This is again the ideal state The fact is Politics plays a big part in each organisation and accordingly Finance and Sale & Marketing team tends to have the best clout in a company . Hence the chances of them getting to the role CEO is higher than those from other functional area.
By Joe Antony, Retail Sales and Marketing, JSW Steel Limited  | 11 08 2010 08:54:41 +0000
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why not? as a ceo, there is more emphasis to concepts, ideas, direction and vision than it is to technical matters.
By V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology  | 11 07 2010 11:49:38 +0000
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Human resource function can also focus on the higher level responsibilities as at the senior level, more people management practices are stressed.

Thanks for the referral, Darshana....
By Badri N Srinivasan, Head - Quality, Valtech India Systems Pvt. Ltd.  | 11 07 2010 07:49:34 +0000
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Appointment of CEOs is a highly complex exercise. The functional background of the aspirants could be just one factor. Political factors such as loyalty to the organizations or the ability to play an effective bargaining role between various power cliques may play a bigger role. So, if the HR senior managers are in a position to swing the political factors in their favor they do stand a chance to lead the organization. In earlier times, HR people had relatively lesser importance. So it required a heavyweight such as Rusi Modi with a HR background to become the CEO. Now, as rightly pointed out, HR function is becoming increasingly more important, Therefore, HR people stand a better chance.
By Azhar Kazmi, Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals  | 11 06 2010 19:50:43 +0000
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An interesting debate that has been on for a long time. HR has traditionally been viewed as a cost-center and hence HR heads rarely made it to the C levels. This has now undergone a change where now HR is viewed as a resource generating profile and hence the varied profiles in HR we see today.... employee engagement, talent acquisition and management, etc. HR now has a larger role to play in ensuring the success of an organization. Apart from this, it is essential for a CXO to be able to take decisions in any department, whether finance, marketing, production or supply chain for that matter. Nowadays, a different outlook taken by HR professionals by involving themselves in various functions of the organization has helped things a bit. HR heads are now being considered for C level positions.. a good sign since the most valued resource of an organization is its Human Resource!
By Inderpal Singh, Director - Academics and Admissions, MILE - Management Institute for Leadership and Excellence  | 11 06 2010 12:57:35 +0000
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yes , why not ? any person with some special skills can be ceo of any company. the main thing we have to know is basic working of ceo/ their responsibilities/ their life personal and professional. also depends on your attitude and confidence. do you really want ,then you can. if you have guts to bring the company from scratch to pinnacles , you can be CEO or can be a part of board of directors of any company. if interested contact us we are a very small company but wanna grow to the top.
By jagdeep sachdeva, Partner/Principal/VP sachdeva placements & consultants  | 11 06 2010 09:33:18 +0000
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HR is no longer a resource alone it is far beyond now a days. It's of power and potential. Therefore any Top Management Executives could no longer ignore the importance of the Manpower. Further you shall see the advert requirements are started mentioning as HR Business Partner. In my personal Opinion a person who is from the HR background will have the sound organization cum business knowledge which supports the question very well. Thanks for the wonderful debate.
By Fazalur Rahman, ManPower Development Specialist (Leadership & Talent Development)  | 11 06 2010 08:31:54 +0000
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There is a designation called as Chief People Officer, (CPO) which is the highest C Level positions heard so far for HRs. But all the organizations don't Have this designation, most commonly used ones are VP HR, Head HR, Director, HR, etc. Onicra gives the designation of Chief Human Resource Officer.
By Aparna Hareesh, Assistant Manager, Emploi Globale Consulting Pvt. Ltd  | 11 06 2010 07:20:18 +0000
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CEO is not only a people Management. Nothing but a King of all the operations. HR Head will be there to run the people management, Yes HE/SHE will be the one person who will understand the need of the company. But not exact Technical issues in other operations.
By karthik periyannan, Consultant, Head Hunters India  | 11 09 2010 01:16:36 +0000
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HR’s cannot become CEO’s, Most of the HR’s are people oriented they are not business oriented, In 100 HR’s only 20 will have capacity of becoming a CEO but in 100 CEO’s 80 can be good HR’s. To become a CEO it is the mixture of all knowledge, but for an HR it is more in to People Management.
By Vikram M, HR Executive, freelancer  | 11 08 2010 04:04:41 +0000
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Who ever supports NO please do provide your argument as like Mr. Kaliamoorthy. So that we will be able to understand all the perspectives. Thanks for the understanding
By Fazalur Rahman, ManPower Development Specialist (Leadership & Talent Development)  | 11 07 2010 16:34:10 +0000
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In case the company is in slavery business it would be just fine :lol:
By Davor Virkes, Advisor, Croatian Telecom inc.  | 11 07 2010 09:49:32 +0000
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Sorry Ms Sawant,

It is not the Question of ," To be or Not to be". It is based, more on the Practicality. Otherwise , HR has equal potential to evolve a system to identify talents, make procedure/SOP/Guideline to bring out the bests in HR for the Organization. But, when the question of execution / Operation comes, it is under question mark. Certain domain they may fit well but, in most of the other field, they can not meet the expectation.

Can I tell you one thing ? A similar aspiration was viewed sometime back in the Armed forces as to see Services Generals as COAS (Chief of army staff). Yet, it is to come out.

So let us follow practical way what an organization really look for & fit a man there to execute.
By KALIYAMOORTHY , Oil & Gas Area Coordinator, Undisclosed  | 11 06 2010 15:52:14 +0000
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Yes but that means the end of the company..
By Atilla Sahin, Freelancer, Freelancer  | 11 06 2010 09:17:53 +0000
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