Is Your HR Department focused on paperwork or profitability?

by Corban OneSource HR Services

The HR department, on many occasions, is interpreted as a non-productive department of an organization. Why? They are not directly involved in production. Quite widely, professionals in the HR department are regarded as paper focused individuals, who don’t have any active contribution to the organizational profitability. This is the high time, when HR department should come out of their paperwork-based role and start participating directly into organizational profitability.

But how?

Here are some important steps that organizations are adopting to shift HR department from a cost centric department to a profitable one:

a) Critical Performance Addressing Customer Requirements: Organizations with a multi-national presence tend to develop their very own HR team that takes care of not only employee recruitment, but also training programs and processes, handles customer service, deals with project management and process improvement issues, and ultimately focuses on leadership development. The multiple levels of HR responsibility in modern industry, as well as, their alliance with other departments, starting from operations, sales, to customer service, is contributory to organizational betterment, performance improvement and guarantees HR as an actively profitable part.

b) HR Partnership with Audit Team: The partnership between HR and the audit team is another important strategic approach that gives the former a direct access to profitability. Results of the partnership, as it has been found, emphasize on setting up clear guidelines for auditors with the capacity to bring back official turnover within a shorter time period, compared to the earlier situation, when the turnover time used to extend beyond the determined one.

c) HR Strategic Developments: Strategic development from the HR department may contribute to the goal of organizational profitability in several ways. For instance, while determining the best healthcare plan for employees, they develop a strategic partnership with the marketing and sales team in order to receive the valuable insight concerning effect of the initiative. The primary concern, in such cases, usually, is understanding the impact on the market and whether or not this initiative would affect the organization’s market shares.

Initiatives that can be taken to make this transition happen:

Making the transition happen from paperwork to profitability is indeed one of the most critical challenges that the HR department experiences. Furthermore, the transition is not possible without active participation of the other departments. So, CEOs and managers can resort to the following initiatives to help the HR department in getting out of the comfort zone and play a more dynamic role in the organization:

Encourage and initiate leadership development programs for HR professionals that would train them about functional disciplines of different types.
Encourage the HR department to undertake financial training so that their participation in profitability becomes quicker.
Allow the HR department to become an active player in developing organizational strategies, starting from domains like marketing, customer satisfaction, and technology. In this way, a company enjoys greater growth initiatives.
All employees, including HR personnel, should be accountable for achieving the critical achievement figures.

Getting out of the comfort zone is never easy, but remaining focused with specific role-based performance is not enough for any organizational department in modern industry. The journey of the HR department, from paperwork to profitability, will not be an easy one, but modern organizations demand such dynamism and it is better to adapt to the changing trends.

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