LEADING THE HR FUNCTION KIRSTEN PATTERSON
26 HUMAN RESOURCES | SUMMER 2023/24
What boards really want
Kirsten Patterson (KP), Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors, shares her thoughts on how HR professionals can ‘step up their influence’. She believes when it comes to governance, a crucial part of that is understanding what boards are concerned about today.
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’d like to share some of the critical issues that Institute of Directors (IoD) members have told us keep them awake at night. Not all of these are directly related back to areas in which HR has traditionally had a large responsibility, but with the expanding scope of people and culture teams, it is to your advantage to know what is being said at the top. Increasingly, expectations on directors – for example, to understand their organisation’s social licence to operate, to consider a broader range of stakeholders, and to develop
