What is your business? Your business is people, and as a result the success of your business runs parallel with an ability to handle people, to hire them, fire them, reward them and incentivise them. With this in mind, rather than being a subsidiary to your modus operandi, human resources is, and should be, a central pillar.
Traditionally human resources could be described as anything to do with people, and the administration of personnel. As a result, human resources departments were often paperwork heavy (and many of them still are.) With such a burden of administration, human resources, somewhat paradoxically, could come across as lacking the human dimension.
These days it doesn’t have to be this way, and human resources can be streamlined to meet its strategic potential, with the help of HR consultants and HR services, your human resources department can regain its purpose.
Who does your human resources department work for? In the past you may have answered the managing director, the chairman. However, if a human resources department is to work at all, then it has to work for employees, and to an extent become their advocate. What does this mean? Well it means helping to create an environment where employees are incentivised to work, and are rewarded for efficient working.
This requires a direct, strategic approach. Rather than being passive in their employment, HR services should take an active role in strategic development. They, rather than being people who handle paperwork, should be trained to handle people, and should know how to contribute to a long term strategy of employee development.
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