Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Why The Need For HR Leadership At The Top?

Your Corporate Strategy:  It Just Doesn’t Matter?       Part 24

“Today with declining loyal and greater job hopping it is critical that CEOs [or organization head] partner with HR.” – John Bell, Former CEO of Kraft

Whatever the top level HR person’s title is, they will, if empowered, act as the organizations moral, morale and ethical compass…. the window into the organization’s culture actuality.  Whether or not you have, or ever thought of having, a top C-level Talent or People Leader, the vital role played by every C-level person and key manager is their leadership example and how that culture of leadership is being translated, monitored and carried throughout the organization…. to EVERY employee.  If you have line, middle or top management creating an employment cesspool, those affected employees view this as the company and how top leadership leads.  Sadly…………………. it is.

According to a recent Success Factors white paper, these are the top 5 impacts highly effective CHROs deliver to business:

“1. Establish a foundation of talent data.
 2. Focus on strategic business issues, not tactical administration.
 3. Position your company to handle growth and manage change.
 4. Build for the future.
 5. Have strategic guidance ready for your executive partners

….many companies are now trying to remedy [not having HR Leadership at the table]. Between 2008 and 2010, the number of all companies with a dedicated talent executive increased from 21 percent to 30 percent.  Even with that growth, only 17 percent of companies with fewer than 1,000 employees have a chief HR officer (CHRO).”


If cultural shifting doesn’t sound significant, as outlined in part 18, a recent poll by Success Factors of Fortune 500 companies found organizations with a Chief Human Resource Officer were 105% more profitable than their industry peers!  105%!!!! From my perspective this is a known.  I have promoted and experienced these results within my organizations.  

http://www.hrgrapevine.com/markets/hr/article/2013-10-08-companies-with-chros-outperforming-peers#!

Smaller organizations, on the other hand, need organizational strategies more suitable to their size. 


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