The Evaluation of the role of Human Resource Department

1. The Evaluation of the role of Human Resource Department Alex

2. Learning goals • I will be able to evaluate (advantages and disadvantages) the role of the human resource department • I will be able to know how to overcome the disadvantages of having an HR department • I will be able to know when to have HR department

3. The human resource department • To organize people, reporting relationships, and work in a way that best supports the accomplishment of the organization's goals. • To provide effective policies, procedures, and people-friendly guidelines and support within companies. • To make sure that the company mission, vision, values or guiding principles, the company metrics, and the factors that keep the company guided toward success are optimized.

4. Advantages • Relieving Burden • Maintaining Compliance

5. Relieving Burden • Difficult to micromanage each aspect of your business • Recruitment and Training • Performance Appraisals • Maintaining Work Atmosphere • Managing DisputesDeveloping Public Relations • Focus more on big-picture items

6. Recruitment and Training • Major responsibility • Design the criteria for hiring the right kind of people • Provide general training and specialized training

7. Performance Appraisals • Communicate individually with the staffs • Provide all the necessary information regarding their performances and also defines their respective roles • Make sure that they increase their work performance • Have clear goals so that they can do their best to achieve them

8. Maintaining Work Atmosphere • Performance of an individual in an organization is largely driven by the work atmosphere or work culture at the workplace • Employees expect it • A safe, clean and healthy environment • Increase job satisfaction

9. Managing Disputes • Conflicts are almost inevitable • Can arise between employees and employees and employers • Acts as a consultant and mediator • Listen to stories from both sides before acting • Keep things from getting out of hand

10. Developing Public Relations • Organize various official gatherings on behalf of the company in order to build up relationships with other business sectors • Plays an active role in preparing the business and marketing plans for the organization • Build a positive image to the public

11. Time and Money Disadvantages • Relinquishing Control • How your business operates • Not be able to make important decisions in key areas • Time and Money

12. How to overcome • Limit its power • Have a board • Important decisions must be consulted • It brings more money than it spends • HR outsource • Not have a HR department

13. HR Outsourcing • To ensure that the HR department tasks are carried out, many business owners have begun to outsource some or all of the departments function to provide HR services and data, including compensation surveys.

14. Advantages • Savings: much less, only charge for the services that the business uses • Efficiency: the cost savings allow businesses to increase funds for other departments, increasing marketplace competitiveness, still have the great service of HR and hence increase the efficiency of the employees • Process: to implement processes that are efficient while falling within all legal regulations, are able to recommend standardized processes, such as training, hiring and retaining employees

15. Disadvantages • Expertise: no central hub of expertise with information on employee training and business operation processes. Each business operates uniquely, so it may be difficult for an outside company to understand • Cultural: employees lose the personal connection of working, feelings of resentment that the outside HR team does not have the employees best interest at heart, the sense of security in having an in-house HR team

16. Not have an HR department • Under what circulmstance do you think that a company should not have an HR department?

17. Advantages • Simplified Hiring Process • relieves the stress of finding qualified employees when positions open up. • Managers can focus on their daily tasks and let the human resources department focus on the hiring process(searching for candidates, interviewing them and performing background checks) • Simplified Management • Less employees to watch over and less programs and services to account for. • This can release an additional burden on your accounting department and yourself as the owner or manager of the company. • You may not be able to manage too many people and hence make mistakes or loose efficiency.

18. Advantages • Cost • Save money for other things. such as employee programs and services, can amount to over $1,000 per employee. • According to Human Resource Executive Online, the average cost for human resources per employee totaled $1,569 in 2009 • Small businesses often exist on thin profit margins, so extra expenses can make a significant negative impact on small businesses.

19. Disadvantages • Employee Relations • have difficulty developing and maintaining a solid relationship with employees. • Human resources bridges communication gaps between company management and employees and offers employees the opportunity to release their frustrations with the company and report wrongdoings. • Without it, you may have to find another way for employees to release their frustration or you need to do it yourselves. Otherwise, job satisfaction will decrease. • More work for the manager • The manager has to cover for the HR department

20. Activity • Explain do you want an HR dpartment, HR outsourcing or no HR department in your company and explain, as detailed as possible. • Group 1 Nike • Group 2 Bronte College

21. Quiz • Name 2 advantage or explain an disadvantage and give solutions for having an HR department • Give 2 advantages or disadvantages for having HR outsourcing • Give 2 advantages or disadvantages for not having an HR department. • Tell me how to chose between these three.

22. Worksites • "Advantages & Disadvantages of Human Resource Information System." Small Business. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. • "Advantages & Disadvantages of Not Having Human Resources." Business & Entrepreneurship. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. • "Advantages & Disadvantages of Not Having Human Resources." Small Business. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014.