Member Information
Members, referred to as Partners, are integral to the continuing success of CHRM. Corporations and their human resource executives form a pillar of the CHRM model. Each year CHRM corporate partners are asked "What work issues keep you awake at night?" From this simple question, the quintessential HR problems are described. In turn, CHRM's Directors develop a request for proposals whereby faculty from both campuses design research projects to address these HR issues.
Partners play a critical role in CHRM. Four partners serve on the CHRM Board that reviews all research proposals. Each proposal must meet not only the academic standards of sound research but also the "practitioner Litmus Test" where the practitioners examine the practical value of the research for the workplace. In addition, a corporate partner acts as a co-Director of CHRM. In this role, the practitioner maintains the Center's balance in selection of roundtable topics, service to partners, and general HR climate.
Partners make an annual $7,500 donation to CHRM and participate in the research process.
Partner benefits include:
- Learning HR Best Practices from colleagues' experiences and research.
- Networking with other HR executives.
- Continuing education through semi-annual roundtable events and HR teleconferences throughout the academic year.
- Opportunity to interact with faculty that are experts in the HR field from multiple disciplines including Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Psychology, Speech Communications, Business Administration and Social Work.
- User-friendly research report summaries
- Access to University internship and employment candidates (when recruiting at ILIR, CHRM members are allowed a 75-25 pre-select ratio for interviewees.)
- CHRM-Network usage where you may ask colleagues about their problems and how they solved them.
- First-hand participation in applied workplace research.