MHRIR Program Competencies
Strategic Partner
• Functional HR: knowledge of recruiting, selection, training, compensation, benefits, labor and employee relations
• Business principles: knowledge of managerial economics, organizational theory, strategic planning, resource allocation, marketing, and other functional areas
• Law and policy: knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, regulations and how to craft effective policy
• Analytics: knowledge of underlying principles and software for HR metrics and being able to communicate these results to others in the business.
Competent Professional
• Self-regulation: understanding self, comfort with ambiguity and stress, skill in solving problems when under stress
• Self-presentation: ability to read situations, self-awareness, social appropriateness
• Proactivity: taking initiative, asking questions, seeking information, starting projects
• Critical thinking: ability to evaluate information quality and relevance
Organizational Leader
• Leading: skill in engaging, motivating, and developing others
• Cross-cultural agility: understanding other perspectives, developing motivation and skill to effectively work in diverse settings
• Networking and communication: developing connections with the HR and business community, learning to understand how to use connections to acquire and deploy resources; field-specific style and conventions, skill in persuasion
• Project management: skill in coordination of diverse activities with others