Agentic HR: Governance, Accountability and Competency Based Human Resource Management 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. Agentic Human Resources is written for the practitioners living through this shift, treating their profession with the seriousness it deserves, grounding every argument in established law, current research, and four decades of the author's own competency based HR practice. Dr. Ganesh Shermon, of Andersen, KPMG, (XLRI, MIT Sloan School of Management, MSU) and three 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. The book applies this framework across recruitment, succession, performance, and learning, HR's actual daily work, and shows why competency, not technology, determines whether agentic tools strengthen a function or quietly amplify its weaknesses. This is, above all, a book about the HR profession itself. The book extensively covers aspects of Competency Based Human Resources Management, Competency Mapping 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 artificial intelligence at work, a specific, evidence grounded, and genuinely usable answer.