Principal Chief Human Resource Officer Concerns

Each year, the association surveys its membership on a broad range of subjects to identify the key human resource challenges facing large employers as they seek to align their company's HR programs to support the organization's business strategies. The issues identified by the annual survey become the foundation of the association's action agenda for the year. As part of the survey each year, we ask the membership to identify the issues of most concern to them as the chief human resource officer of a major corporation. The results from the 2009 Annual CHRO Survey are as follows:

Leadership development and succession
76%
Executive compensation practices and disclosure requirements
76%
Health plan strategies
60%
Employee/union relations
54%
Organizational change, culture transformation and globalization
42%
People cost management strategies
41%
HR functional development
26%
Recruitment and retention of top talent
26%
Workforce planning
18%
Corporate governance
16%
Enterprise reputation and liability exposure
15%
Retirement security
13%
Workplace diversity
13%
Organizational learning
8%
Acquisitions and divestitures
7%