Colleen:
Your posting contains many generative ideas and concepts.
At 09:16 AM 8/2/96 -0800, Coleen.Wagner@siemensrolm.com wrote:
>I work for a company that is re-inventing its HR function (as opposed to
>re-engineering which is so popular these days).
>
>We have had spirited debates about what it really means to be an HR
>department, what's our mission, what are our strategic imperatives. In a
>nutshell this is what we think our job is: to create the conditions under
>which the employees of the company can successfully execute the company's
>business strategy.
A very good beginning. There are many HR departments out there that have
lost touch with the business of the organization, and have placed
themselves outside the boundaries of strategic resources. Witness the many
times that executives teams feel it is necessary to by-pass the internal
HR department in order to conceptualize and actualize a new vision which
will have an enormous impact on their people (human resources as opposed
to Human Resources!!!). > > >HR departments have tried to affect how a
group operates by operating on >the individuals of that group which, in my
experiencem, hasn't proven to >work. This is the real challenge for HR
departments now, how to address >lots of individual and group needs
(employees, departments, executives, >etc) while still addressing the
whole group's needs (the company).
You've hit another nail on the head. Do you see the need for your HR dept.
to undergo some kind of transformation before they will be able to begin
assisiting the enterprise with its transformation. I would be interested
in how you intend to approach this.
>There is also the topic of how an HR department can assist an organization
>in the process of becoming an LO (a separate thread I think).
I think the point is directly related to your earlier points, and although
the scope is very broad, there are good reasons for keeping the points in
the saem thread.
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