08/16/2026
AGENTIC HUMAN RESOURCES - Governance, Leadership and Competency Based HRM
SKU: ISBN 978-0-557-99947-7
2026 AGENTIC HUMAN RESOURCES
Governance, Leadership and Competency Based Human Resource Management.
This book is organized in four parts. Part One establishes what agentic artificial intelligence actually is, distinct from the automation and generative tools that preceded it, and builds the human agent workforce, its new roles, relationships, and competencies, that this technology has already begun to create.
Part Two builds the governance structure I have called, the Algorithmic Charter, a five-layer framework spanning policy, boundary, audit, escalation, and reporting, an accountability model adapted from enterprise risk management practice, a data stewardship and ethical standard, and a complete methodology for auditing bias and fairness in AI assisted talent decisions.
Part Three applies this framework across the full employee lifecycle, recruitment, succession and global mobility, performance and reward, and learning and skill governance, each examined with the operational depth a practicing consultant or manager actually needs.
Part Four turns to the human and organizational questions this transformation raises, the changing role of the HR professional and the CHRO, board and executive fiduciary oversight, the competency-based organization as the necessary foundation for all of it, the genuine fear and job insecurity this transformation produces, and the culture and leadership an organization needs to navigate it well.
A Concluding Chapter assembles this entire argument into the Algorithmic Charter itself, a working instrument rather than only a summary, and an Epilogue closes the book by naming what remains genuinely unresolved.
AGENTIC HUMAN RESOURCES
Agentic artificial intelligence is not a tool. It is a new form of organizational decision authority, one that now sources candidates, ranks performance, recommends pay, and shapes succession, often without a human ever reviewing the specific decision at all. Agentic Human Resources treats this shift with the rigor it demands, grounding its argument in established Delaware corporate law, current academic research on bias and algorithmic anxiety, and the author's own consulting practice, rather than in speculation about what artificial intelligence might someday do.
Human resource management is being rebuilt from the inside out. Recruiting agents now source and screen candidates. Succession systems refresh continuously rather than once a year. Performance and reward decisions increasingly begin with an algorithm's recommendation before a manager ever sees the file.
This is, above all, a book about the HR profession itself. The book extensively covers aspects of Competency Based Human Resources Management, Competency Mapping, Recruiting, Succession Planning, Learning, Mobility, as they evolve different based on Agentic AI. It confronts the claim that HR is dying, and argues the profession is splitting, a transactional version disappearing and a governance centered version growing, commanding a genuine wage premium for practitioners who build the right capability now. It names the job insecurity and algorithmic anxiety this shift produces among HR's own people, and gives CHROs and HR leaders a practical path through it, the manager behavior, culture, and leadership that decide whether a workforce trusts this technology or quietly resists it.
Written for HR professionals, consultants, HR leaders, CHROs, and board members who must make these decisions inside real organizations, Agentic Human Resources gives its reader something rare in the current conversation about AI.
Dr. Ganesh Shermon, of Andersen, KPMG, (XLRI, MIT Sloan School of Management, MSU) and four decades of consulting and academic teaching in competency based human resource management, builds a complete governance framework, the Algorithmic Charter, showing HR leaders how to extend the discipline they already know, competency dictionaries, behavioral assessment, workforce planning, into the policies, boundaries, audits, and accountability an agentic HR function now requires.
2026 AGENTIC HUMAN RESOURCESGovernance, Leadership and Competency Based Human Resource Management. This book is organized in four parts. Part One establishes what agentic artificial intelligence actually is, distinct from the automation and generative tools that preceded it, and builds the human age...
