The Significance of HR

HR by FutureSense

Where do employees go when they need help, motivation, or somewhere to be heard? The answer is Human Resources (HR), or at least it should be. Of the many HR responsibilities, these are often the most difficult for non-HR professionals to fill. HR is the place to go when you aren’t sure where to go.

What should employees expect from HR? 

All HR professionals partially serve to provide a tactical objective. They are there to answer employees’ questions and concerns, maintain benefits and ensure paychecks are received. The goal is to help employees stay focused and productive while balancing their work and lives.

 What should a company and its management team expect from an HR Team?

All HR professionals have the ability to mentor and coach managers, executives, and employees in everything from surviving COVID-19 to navigating policies. They are staff advocates. Additionally, HR should be an advocate of the company while achieving success.

What are the responsibilities of an HR Department?

In addition to staff support and relations, all HR teams dedicate their time to improving HR practices, including: 

• Creating robust hiring processes

• Ensuring consistency with onboarding and orientation 

• Continuous training of management in compliance and leadership to include harassment training for all managers and employees

• Updating your employee handbooks and personnel policies

• Tackling compliance with wage and hour obligations

• Creating efficient retention and turnover prevention strategies

• Leveraging and creating performance management and talent optimization strategies

• Appropriately handling employee complaints and issues (to name a few)

What do you do if you don’t have an HR department or cannot provide tactical support needed by your employees? 

FutureSense offers fractional HR support, HR Operations experts, executive and career coaches, and everything in between. You might not need a full accompaniment of a human resources (HR) department. Still, you need someone to discuss employee relations issues, operational decisions that impact staff, or need direction from an executive coach.

FutureSense HR is here to support the expansion of these ideas. If you want to discuss these topics, need assistance with your workforce strategy, strategic planning, an HR consultant, or need an executive coach to talk to, contact us at 888-336-0909 or info@futuresense.com