TY - JOUR
AB -  Closing Egon Zehnder International/Epstein Becker c~ Green Survey* ’’ For the purpose of this survey we deviated somewhat from our usual practice of soliciting the views of C’EC)s and other top managers and restricted ourselves to polling only senior corporate human resources executives- l0 in all. To better understand differences in HR perceptions and practices, we divided our total sample into a number of groupings. We found the more significant contrasts between two pairs of groupings: industrial vs. service companies, and large companies (for our purposes more than 35,000 employees) vs. small (fewer than 8,000 employees). Perhaps a good place to start is with one rather astonishing finding: fully 40% of the HR executives we queried did not believe that &dquo;CEOs generally understand the value of their human resources function.&dquo; Interestingly, this proportion held steady regardless of whether the respondent reported directly to the CEO or to another senior executive! On the other hand, HR executives in smaller companies were evenly divided this question, while nearly three-quarters of those in large companies thought their CEOs understood their value. The candid responses of our HR respondents, if other top managers consider them carefully, may open the way toward incorporating 
TI - Human Resources and Line Executives: Closing the Chasm
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
DO - 10.1177/103841119002800209
DA - 1990-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/human-resources-and-line-executives-closing-the-chasm-ieSyDWzLIN
SP - 87
VL - 28
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -