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What are your strategies to ensure effective HR management?
I recently was hired as the head of HR at a struggling software company. I'm planning on re-vamping all aspects of their HR department and I'm curious to know what strategies people recommend to ensure effective management? What rules/goals do you follow to keep your department in line?
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Nicole, I wouldn't revamp anything until I met with your key internal client, the leadership team. It would behoove you not to get some perspective from them on the business and culture. Your strategy will be based on their needs, you'll have to determine how your systems and processes will align with the business to support those needs.
Next, you need to get a pulse on the employees in the organization, how do they feel about the business and what barriers are standing in their way.
At this point, you can then review the systems in your department to determine if they provide the support and efficiencies you need to meet both your clients needs.
Nicole,
In addition, to what has already been said, you should do a complete review of all the current HR processes and programs to determine how well they suuport your company's business strategy. Might also be good to do some benchmarking to determine what similar size companies in your industry provides to their employees.
Once you collect all the various data points you can then determine where the gaps exist. Then develop a plan of action that you can recommend to your mgt showing them the changes you want to make and why, financial impact if any and timeline for implementation.
Best of luck and you will do fine.
Benchmarking is a waste of time, why bother comparing yourself to the top of the bottom, which is what inevitability happens. Or the other side of the coin, you try and compare yourself to the top 100 companies to work for, how's that going to help you if your in another category or class.
As far as determining the gap is concerned, be sure that it's the gap between what your department is doing, what the leaders expect and what the employees expect, they are you customers.
Jim says you'll do fine, I don't think so, most HR departments don't do fine, it's not that easy.
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