The Centre for Human Resource Innovation with the Murdoch University Business School is a recognised centre for continuing training and education focusing on sustainable human resource solutions that will serve current and future generations through the integration of social advancement and economic prosperity. The centre has a significant organisational development, training and education capability well suited to the human resource research, innovation and professional services.

CHRI is uniquely both practitioner and academically focused. It provides a variety of professional and academic services designed to value-add to both academic and industry professionals through a variety of programs. The Human Resource Management (HRM) industry has experienced a rather dramatic elevation in status and importance in the past decade. This has been even more so with the skill shortage crisis facing Australia. This has seen the human resource function, formerly personnel management, become a strategic function represented at top management level in most modern companies and public organisations. The reasons for this are many and varied, but revolve mainly around the need for the acquisition, development and retention of scarce talent.