Hi all,

I work in a company that operates an autonomous work environment. All employees are viewed as entrepreneurs building their business within a business. Management doesn't exist. You follow your own lead.

I  am finding it very difficult to add value as a HR professional aside from basic facilitation of recruitment/ training and onboarding. Basic transactional stuff although I am introducing new elements to the onboarding.

I was hired as a business partner yet it's clear that any areas surrounding engagement, performance management, the  people side of  leadership development are deemed irrelevant. If you work for us the successful people will rise to the top and make their fortune whilst others will not and that's it. Business leaders can lead their profit and loss teams however they like or not at all. They can seek out HR or not at all. Mainly it's not at all or its for simple transactional stuff.

I feel like I'm looking in as an observer most of the time and not effectively business partnering.  Has anyone else delivered HR in an autonomous business model like this and if so, what did you do?

Many thanks

Catherine