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Catalyzing Safe and Equitable Use of Artificial Intelligence in Home Health Care Work
Despite their growing ranks and crucial role, home care workers are often undervalued, underpaid, unrecognized, and isolated. Adding AI to their role could make work better, or worse.
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Building Cultures of Trust in the 21st Century Workplace
Museums have traditionally thought of themselves as neutral ground, but broader social, environmental, and even operational issues are growing increasing contentious. How can museum leaders and staff, and workplaces generally, build, maintain, and restore trust?
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Culture of Trust: How Interactions Around Contentious Issues Affect Trust in the Workplace
This project seeks to identify the ways that leaders, especially those working in museums, can support and build trust even when working through contentious issues.
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Scholarships
IRC4HR supports the following scholarships: Richard A. Beaumont Memorial Scholarship Since 2021, IRC4HR has offered the Richard A. Beaumont Memorial Scholarship in conjunction with the the National Academy of Human Resources Foundation. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) manages the scholarship. This award honors the memory of Richard A. Beaumont, a long-time pioneer in…
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Terms of Use
Acceptance of Terms A. Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc. (referred to as “the Company,” “us” or “we”), provides the IRC4HR.org website (the “Site”), which includes descriptions of past and ongoing research funded by the Company, research reports, and information about our collaboration with thought leaders and our ongoing development of knowledge and practice relating to human…
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11 – The IRC Culture: Everyone Had a Voice
At IRC, everyone mattered, and everyone felt that our mission mattered. We were all a team.
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12 – IRC: Research and Education
In the late 1960s, IRC got a five-year research support commitment from Chevron, DuPont, Exxon, General Electric, General Motors, Gulf Oil, Procter & Gamble, Westinghouse, Western Electric, and Standard Oil of Indiana.
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13 – Automation and Human Resources
During the early 1960s, it was revolutionary to see automobiles being assembled with very few human workers in sight on an assembly line.
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14 – Dividing IRC: Consulting and Research Interests
In the 1950s, then-president Carroll E. French believed it would be good business to split the organization into a nonprofit that would retain the IRC name designator and a similar name for a company with the word “service” added to it.
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2 – The Champion of Work Relations
Among Rockefeller’s many actions was the establishment in 1926 of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc.—renamed Innovation Resource Center for Human Resources (IRC4HR) in 2015 —as a nonprofit research and educational organization to “advance the knowledge and practice of human relations” in the workplace.
