Marketingsherpa has some tips:
HR professionals – at all levels – are incredibly busy (you’re lucky if you get one on the phone). In addition to having to put out day-to-day fires – GPs for instance, are usually dealing with employee relations issues and the like – HR professionals spend 10-40% of their time in meetings and the rest in dealing with strategic issues, such as lowering turnover, improving the recruitment process, or reviewing programs from a cost perspective.
One thing to note: MBA types are moving into HR, which is now seen as a respectable and results-driven field (versus its “pink collar” ghetto reputation of the 1990s). !!!
Four Key Challenges HR Pros Face Now
#1. Regulations and inefficient processes
#2. Resistance to change
#3. Technology solutions could be better
#4. Executive ethics and compliance is huge
Gautam:
ReplyDeleteBeen a reader for a long time. I'd like to comment on your 4 key challenges. I think the first 3 challenges (process, change management and technology) are all easily grouped together. As a HR process/technology consultant in the US, I find that process improvement often includes technology upgrades, which will obviously include change management.
Obviously change management will be present in many more areas than process and technology implementations, but I think the first 3 really go hand in hand. It's difficult to make significant contrigutions to the business in todays world without these 3 being tightly integrated streams of thought.
I'd also add one to the list - being the ever present talent problem.
Dubs