Do You REALLY Want An “Employer of Choice Plan”? Part A

Your Corporate Strategy:  It Just Doesn’t Matter?      Part 28a

“In a great company culture, your best and talented employees do not require top dollar to remain engaged and retained.  Companies with poor, poisonous or dysfunctionally inbred cultures cannot engage and retain their best people no matter what they pay!  Part of their dysfunction is they don’t and/or can’t recognize or value a best candidate, their best people or their best/better leadership because those traits aren't recognized, valued and rewarded within the culture they have created.” – John Hagen

The People/Talent (HR) Department occupies a most unusual place within an organization and performs very unique functions for its many types of customers.  It is the company culture representative and first company contact for customers wanting to be potential employees.  (This is true whether an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is used or not or whether Recruiting or Talent Acquisition.)  It is also the first formal company representative and company introduction to the newly hired.

It is the ongoing intra-company representative and contact for all employees within the company.  It acts as the link between upper management and company through communication, policies and procedures.  It acts as a window to your employee's views of the company, culture, problems and liability.  It may act as the union grievance (or discrimination) investigator and negotiator.….It also acts as the company manpower strategist and forecaster, change agent, skills developer and trainer, benefits manager and communicator as well as the employee needs, complaint and suggestion department.  Some have defined it as the company’s trust department where the company’s and the employee’s expectations meet.

Next: Do You REALLY Want an “Employer of Choice Plan ?” Part B