HR Business Partner
• Contemporary role of HRM in organizations.
• Delivering value to the organization’s customers, investors and employees.
• Business Partners – HR professionals who work closely with operational managers to ensure that ‘people decisions’ are consistent with business objectives.
HR Function contributes to Organizational Performance
• Supporting higher level organizational objectives through vertical integration; ‘Bundling’ HRM practices (horizontal integration)
• Ensuring that the organization is appropriate resourced
• Developing a positive employee relations culture
• Creating structures that attract, retain, and motivate staff
• Ensuring employees and managers have the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes
Equal Opportunity (EO) VS Diversity
• Organizational response to the growth in discrimination legislation. The coverage of legislation will vary between countries, but can include: sex and gender; race and ethnicity; disability; age; religion; and sexual orientation.
• ‘valuing everyone as an individual’, as opposed to the group focus of EO, and see managing diversity as central to good people management. Diversity management recognizes that the workforce is comprised of a diverse population of people consisting of both visible and non-visible differences.
Ways to promote (EO) & Diversity
• The development of a clear policy which states the organization’s commitment to equal treatment and diversity.
• Leadership from senior management.
• Involvement of employees and, where appropriate, their representatives.
• Communication of the policy to all employees.
• Including the policy in recruitment material sent to prospective employees.
• Monitoring and review of the policy.
• Training of those involved in decisions that are covered by the policy, for example, recruitment, selection and appraisal.
