Question

Please in your own word! Thank you

HR departments are being asked more and more to play a key role in creating a high-performance organization. This creates some tensions within HR structures because of the varying roles of HR in any organization. Specifically, these new demands for HR include:

Contributing to a high-performance organization by developing expertise in collaboration, creativity, facilitating work teams, etc. and

Contributing to traditional HR roles that still need to be done, such as benefits and payroll

To best meet the needs of an organization, how do you think these two roles should be divided? Should it be 50-50? More emphasis on high performance? More emphasis on specific HR functions? Explain why you think your suggested combination would work best.

Answer 1

I personally feel that these 2 mentioned roles for an HR should not be 50-50 rather they should be 70-30 i.e. the primary aim and role of the HR should hold 70% of the importance i.e. core roles such as Payroll etc. should be given more importance as it would shape the career graph of an HR and also to ensure that a healthy work environment is created in the organization 30% of the importance should be given to work like engaging the employees to promote innovation, creativity, collaboration etc.

This way the organization would be able to achieve both the purposes and the HR would also feel that he/she is doing some quality work to polish the existing skills.