The changing environment of human resource management and enterprise innovation is placing additional demands on human resource practitioners and manager alike. Human resource practitioners are now being seen at the centre of organisational change, particularly when such change is being driven through advances in technology. This has placed a considerable burden on the professional human resource practitioner and industry as a whole. Accordingly human resource management and enterprise innovation are at the forefront of research in an endeavour to improve the capability of both human resource professionals and organisations alike.

CHRI focuses on a variety of current resource and innovation issues. The centre has established research capability in the following areas:

• HR technology driven innovation
• Strategic HRM
• Aging population and workforce
• HR benchmarking and auditing for modern organisations
• Online recruitment practices
• HR outsourcing versus internalized control
• HR driven corporate citizenship in a global economy
• Prioritization and identification of environmental drivers and trends