How Collaboration with HR Improves People Success In the recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) publication for July – August 2015, the title of the magazine was It’s Time to Blow Up HR and Build Something New. Here’s How (Harvard Business Review, 2015). The publication had a series of articles related to elevating the Human Resources (HR) function to supporting the chief executive officer (CEO) and the chief finance officer (CFO) effectively manage the organizations people, and way from administrative functions (Harvard Business Review, 2015). In general, I agree that having an HR function in my organization that supports me developing myself as an employee, and the people on my team to have the skills, and organizational design allowing me to execute my role is my expectation of HR. This paper discussions my expectations of the HR function at Pearson, both as an employee and as a director of my group, how I discern how well I am performing at my job function, and provide future on-the-job training recommendations for new employees given my experience. I began working for Pearson in 2007 when they acquired my previous organization eCollege. At the time I ran a twenty-five person team as the Director of Project Management. I needed to understand how the performance management system, recruiting process, and benefits package would be different to ensure that was evaluating my employees in line with Pearson’s directions, staff my department, as well as supporting my
The HR department officials in most organizations perform as they should. In most cases, they also focus on achieving the right things. Human Resource departments focus organizing, controlling, and hiring employees in organizations. When organizations apply HR practices, the results are great client satisfaction, a good net margin, and reduced sickness absence (Richard and Johnson, 2001). Vermeeren et al. (2014) posit that there is a great relationship between performance and HRM. Most organizations use the human resource department to ensure that operations run smoothly.
| Explain how different organisational structures and management roles can impact on the HR Function (AC: 1.3)
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I have been asked to provide a report that supports the retention of the HR function within our organisation. In this report I will explain how Human Resource activities support the organisations strategy and how HR professionals support line managers and their staff.
LO3: Understand the role of HR in the managing of contemporary business issues and external contents.
Throughout our course in HR management, our professor Marie has always said that we should reverse our roles and to wear our HR hat to learn what HR was all about. And in this regard, our guest speaker AJ Henry brought forth an impactful speech that really gave me a strong ability to conceptualize what HR can do to facilitate and foster strong leaders. Not only was AJ effective in his examples and demonstrations, he amazed me how as a HR representative of a 70-billion-dollar company (Target), could be so funny, honest, and caring.
The current function of HR can be defined as supporting “the delivery of the organisation’s strategy and objectives through the effective management of people and performance” (Taylor & Woodhams, 2012; 22). This definition is furthered by a CIPD survey (2007; 2-3), which indicated that the key functions of HR are: recruiting and retaining staff, progressing performance management to maximise the value of employees and increasing employee engagement.
The roles of Human Resources (HR) professionals are changing. HR managers were previously viewed as the patrolling unit of executive management. Yaduvanshi (n.d.) says that “their role was associated with personnel and administration functions that organization viewed as paperwork. In this role, the HR professional served executive agendas well, but was frequently viewed as a road-block by the rest of the organization. While some need for this role occasionally remains, much of the HR role is transforming itself.”
During 2006, the first part of Alan’s plan was to convince bankers into giving Ford Motor Company billions of dollars to complete this company overhaul. Once they were provided with the right amount of money, the plan was able to be executed. With this plan came a timeline; by the year 2009, the company planned to have the ‘One Ford’ mission in action and to see production increase. Because of such a short timeline, HRD was ultimately involved throughout the entire process. As part of the company’s “One Team” approach, certain areas of the plan are discussed and analyzed to examine if anything can be improved; this is accomplished by using everyone in the company. Employees are able to share how they feel about certain areas of their work and give their opinions on how certain things should change or stay the same; after everything is examined, the leaders of the company are the ones held responsible and accountable for making the changes, if any, to whatever was examined (Ford Motor Company, 2010). During this process, new strategies can also be provided by using the employee’s opinions and assessments of their strengths and weaknesses. This ultimately shows the use of human resource development as part of the company’s competitive strategy. Without the employees understanding how to complete their job correctly, the company would plunder. Thus, the company makes
In an era of organizational flux due to competition and globalization, companies and employees are faced with constant change. Leaders must be able to adapt to change as the environment shifts. HR has been known as the organizational change agent, administrative expert, and employee advocate. More recently they have been regarded as business strategic partners for many organizations. In order to be successful and remain competitive in today’s market, Human Resources (HR) must be considered a strategic partner if an organization wants to flourish. Top executives today commit significant resources to ensure that their company’s functions are capable of rapid change and achieving their
Human Resource plays a key role in designing the performance management framework. Human Resource role is manifold and each of these roles well played can be highly beneficial to the organization. However, as it is now, the people in the department do not seem up to par. In the article, "Why We Hate HR," written by Keith H. Hammond, the author portrayed a negative stance on the department. He listed four reasons describing what is wrong with the Human Resource people. Based on those four main criticisms, three individual interviews were conducted to see either Hammond’s point of view is agreeable or not. The interviewees also have given their personal experiences and opinions when comparing their
The role of the human resources (HR) department can play a significant role in the success and achievements of an organization. The department, which has evolved from the
Whether an organization consists of five or 25,000 employees, human resources management is vital to the success of the organization. HR is important to all managers because it provides managers with the resources – the employees – necessary to produce the work for the managers and the organization. Beyond this role, HR is capable of becoming a strong strategic partner when it comes to “establishing the overall direction and objectives of key areas of human resource management in order to ensure that they not only are consistent with but also support the achievement of business goals.” (Massey, 1994, p. 27)
As the world is turning out to be more aggressive and unstable than any other time in recent memory, producing based enterprises are looking to increase upper hand at all cost and are swinging to more inventive sources through HRM practices (Sparrow, Schuler, & Jackson, 1994). HR practices has been defined by (Smallbusiness.chron.com, 2016) as “the means through which your human resources personnel can develop the leadership of your staff.”
In this application there are have several positive impact to the organization that utilizing this application which is: