The Business Leadership Discipline deals—from an enterprise perspective—with the processes and activities used to formulate objectives, practices and policies aimed at meeting short- and long-range organizational needs and opportunities, and focuses in particular on human capital issues. It includes the strategic planning process and the process of aligning the human capital management plan with the strategic plan.
The discipline also includes interpreting information from internal sources, including finance/accounting, business development, marketing, sales, operations and information technology. In addition, it includes matters relating to the HR professional’s knowledge and understanding of the business and its markets, the external environment, internal assets, effective business practices, HR metrics and other aspects of strategic human resource management.
Finally, it includes matters that focus—from a business leadership perspective—on HR careers, communications, legal and regulatory issues, technology, metrics, outsourcing, effective practices and global issues. The discipline does not include matters involving business leadership in the context of a human resource consulting practice, which are encompassed in the Consulting Discipline.
