HI All, 

What should a HR do so that the importance / presence of HR is felt in the entire organization.

Comments welcome ??

Thanks

Raghu

I believe HR has to ensure that customers both internal and external are happy as well as productive. When we start focussing on keeping our customers happy, their productivity goes high and we not only make our presence felt but we justify our presence...... 

 

Visibility of HR has always been a tough task. Typically, HR finds itself sandwiched between management and employees.

The very first step towards this is empowerment of HR Department. It has to come out of the traditional Personnel/Administration role to the Employee Development role.

Next steps could be rolling out series of employee friendly initiatives that make the employees feel that "oke....we have a department called HR". These initiatives could range from fun@work place to help employee in counselling for career progress. For such things, all the staff of HR has to be very friendly, open and warm....

My few bits...
 

Raghu,
 
I am not sure at what level you are in the organization. What all you can change depends upon that. For sake of simplicity assuming you have requisite influence with CEO, IMHO you need to do three things:
 
A] Look at the top

I had opportunity to work in organizations where HR was assertive & contributory member of CEO-team. Also worked with companies where HR was implementer of CEO decisions.
 
I did a typical force field analysis (Kurt Lewin)  to see how different factors must have been interplaying to reach such state of affairs. Only dependable (in statistical sense) factor I could pin down to was who is/has-been at top of the HR pyramid.

I could conclude that HR visibility/importance in business is direct consequence of competence of HR-head as domain expert.

Catherine