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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 200,000 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 profession to ensure that HR is recognized as an essential partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. Founded in 1948, SHRM currently has more than 560 affiliated chapters and members in more than 100 countries.

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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 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. 

SHRM offers many opportunities for professional development.  For more information, click here

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SHRM Foundation

AHRA proudly supports the SHRM Foundation and is a 2009 Chapter Champion.  More information can be found at http://shrm.org/foundation/

The Foundation promotes research, innovation and the use of research-based knowledge. With an annual budget of approximately $1 million, it funds major research projects that have a direct and practical impact in advancing the HR profession. The Foundation puts out RFP's to the research community and then evaluates the research proposals it receives. Using its "LIVE" criteria: L-Leverage, I-Impact, V-Visibility, E-Enhances the profession, the Foundation selects projects to fund.

The Foundation also funds practical publications on specific issues, educational scholarships, the Effective Practice Guidelines series, and online directories of undergraduate and masters degree programs in human resource management.

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Generating Research-Based Knowledge

The SHRM Foundation is the leading funder of HR research grants--providing funding for high-impact, original HR research that advances the knowledge base of the profession.  In the past 12 years, the SHRM Foundation has funded more than $2.8 million in research grants for over 105 research projects.  Topics for research include:

  • Making virtual teams more effective.
  • Increasing the success rate of new executives.
  • Employee engagement in multinational corporations.
  • Retention of an older workforce.
  • Impact of HR practices on organizational social performance.

Much of your every day work is influenced by research, even if you have never read a research paper.  The cumulative effect of multiple research studies is to discover and document what practices work best and under what conditions.  In this way, research ultimately influences the practice of human resource management.

To learn more and to review the results of recently completed SHRM Foundation research, visit the foundation website (www.shrm.org/foundation/findings.asp).

HRCI

The Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) is the leading independent, internationally-recognized certifying body for the HR profession.  HRCI certifications require professionals to demonstrate their expertise in the core principles of HR practice and the application of those principles.    More information can be found at http://www.hrci.org/

For information on HRCI training opportunities, click here

Several members and past members of AHRA have achieved PHR (Professional in Human Resources) or SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) certification:

bulletCheryl Christensen, SPHR
bulletWendi Clark, SPHR
bulletAimee Foszpanczyk, SPHR
bulletAmy Klima, PHR
bulletConnie Larson, SPHR
bullet Nikki Schram, PHR
bulletBecky Seeley, PHR
bulletJennifer Tiedeman, PHR
bulletHolly Waisanen, PHR
bulletEd Zabinski, SPHR