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Connect...Excel...Impact...The human resources profession has changed dramatically in the past century. In today's dynamic workplace, human resource professionals are expected to add value to their organizations. In addition to managing traditional human resource functions, Human Resources is expected to contribute to such key organizational challenges as facilitating mergers and acquisitions, achieving gains in productivity and quality, cultivating the ability of an organization to bring new products to market, and to continuously improve the company's return on its greatest asset...its people.
The SPHRO places particular emphasis on advancing HR professionals throughout the duration of their careers. We are your career partner ... serving the needs of HR professionals as you lead the way for organizational effectiveness in today's businesses. |
Our History |
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Resources Organization (SPHRO), an initiative of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, was formed as the Washington County HR Roundtable in 2010 by a group of industry leaders and personnel specialists who wanted to explore and collaborate on solutions to mutual problems. Their initial interests covered distribution of information, exchange of ideas, development and refinement of professional approaches and procedures.
In 2015, the SPHRO Advisory Committee recommended the organization change its name and broaden its membership base to include not only practitioners in human resources, but also consultants and vendors to the profession, such as legal and accounting professionals, educators who teach the next generation of human resource professionals, employees of executive search firms, compensation and benefits professionals, students, and business & organizational effectiveness practitioners. |
