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Integrating HR to business

I have seen two extremes of HR professionals: one group lost in personnel management like monitoring of absenteeism and administration of employee benefits and another group completely immersed in HR frameworks and models without being able to connect them with the business reality, creating at best a profound disconnect and dysfunction as they do not  have a proper understanding of the  business environment in which they evolve. What are your thoughts and how can we better integrate the HR function to strategic business?

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  • The short answer to your question is " through goal alignment"

    The slightly longer answer is.......

    .....Take the CEO's or MD's business objectives/ goals/targets/priorities for the year.
    Plot them against your 6 key HR areas of expertise eg
    - Org design and effectiveness
    - Talent acquisition and retention
    - Talent review, succession, L&D
    - Reward and Recognition
    - Functional Excellence ( HR contribution to org efficiency/ cost management)
    - Communication
    Draw up a list of value adding opportunities for HR to contribute to each relevant business objective, taking into account relevant areas of expertise. Review with stakeholders/peers to determine internal customer importance and get buy in.
    Plot opportunities on hml impact / hml degree of difficulty of implementation chart
    Select high impact items with achievable implementation timescale and present back to CEO /MD for approval
  • In reply to Kevin Elvidge:

    Thanks Kevin
    Indeed you are right and this is really helpful