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(b) Refer to the article "The coronavirus crisis thrusts corporate HR chiefs into the spotlight". Why do more firms need "a hard-headed HR boss"? The coronavirus crisis thrusts corporate HR chiefs into the spotlight In a pandemic, a chief people officer can make or break a company Mar 26th 2020 AMSTERDAM When the financial crisis rocked the business world in 2007-09,boardrooms turned to corporate finance chiefs. A good could save a company, a bad one might bury it. The covid-19 pandemic presents a different challenge--and highlights the role of another corporate function, often unfairly dismissed as soft. Never have more firms needed a hard-headed he boss. The duties of chief people officers, as top human-resources executives are sometimes called, are critical. They must keep employees healthy, maintain morale oversee a historic remote working experiment, and consider whether, when and how to lay workers off. Their in-trays are bulging Once derided as "pay and parties managers, by the early 1990s hr chiefs turned to compliance, keeping firms out of the courts and newspapers). A subsequent string of corporate imbroglios raised their status, notes Patrick Wright of the University of South Carolina. Executive-pay scandals in the 2000s at firms such as World Com and Tyco got them more involved in remuneration. A decade later hungled successions at giants like hip, a printer-maker, left them with a bigger say in filling top jobs. More recently they have dealt with firms' often very public "me to troubles As recruiting and retaining skilled workers became cos' big concerfour-fifths now fret about skill shortages, up from half in 2012 heads desks moved closer to the corner office. Today many reside right next to the boss. Shareholders are inviting more outside hr chicfs onto boards In America salaries remain lower than ces pay but have rise about 20% faster since 2010 (see chart), Human capital United States, selected public companies Share who are females | 75) Median total compensation, sm) 25. CEO 1001 75 CHRO 501 50 25 CFO mo 25 CROL CEO) CHRO" 2010) 15) 191 Source The Economist 2010) 15. 19) no liber compressorit MAARI 2016 werden Sie alle haresh who beat in peneral that can truth , y to Is lersaatant Dasams , atitled tea Alps challen me and minden php ta hain The patenataaipoptaiyaaradain, M. lantails has a state Mandiy Maha Man tittaalee M Sing me - particularly any My per - matenate, ar D Tha olyok Rather than the play School MA. : tadata entrigalatta The radiate etpaalaatamaicane Thas Nana naanattine tami