Abstract
We are currently living in the dynamic digital era.Changes are inevitable and as a result continuous
learning has become art of survival in today’s business scenario. Computers, which once helped mankind
by doing data processing and documentation has now become so powerful and dominant that it has gone
to the extent of creating controls and restrictions in the form of automation and systemization. This huge
leap in technological advancement, by its perfectness and accuracy has always been a threat to human
employability in different job segments and Human Resources Department is also not an exception to it.
Contemporarily, to exist in this survival of the fittest scenario, the Human Resources department is trying
to change its outlook from a cost incurring department to a profit center by playing the role of the
Human Resource business partner. While most of the HR professionals in the creamy layer of the
management are aware of this scenario and are trying to strategically redesign their team beneath them,
the level of awareness of the scenario of their team members becomes debatable. In this empirical
research paper, 67 working Human Resource professionals participated in the survey, in which theirlevel
of understandingthe role of Human Resource professional as a business partner, the need for HR
business professional in today’s context, the perception of their team members towards the same
scenario and suggestions for addressing the gaps.
Keywords-HR (Human Resources), HRM (Human Resource Management), Business partner (BP),
Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP)
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