Rabu, 25 Februari 2009

Send Your Human Resource Director Back to School - Often!

By Lance Winslow Platinum Quality Author

Many entrepreneurs and corporate executives do not like human resource directors. Probably because their personality types often do not match well. You see, human resource directors are people, people and are relationship builders, while entrepreneurs are hard-chargers, competitive and they love to win above all. You can see where that might lead.

Now then, human resource directors are the back bone of the company, they help you build the team and help the company make sure that the new hires are experienced and match who is already there. This prevents conflicts in the work place that could cause the team to break down, become inefficient and destroy any long-standing organizational capital.

Without the human resource director, a member of the management team would have to do the hiring, but if they made a mistake in the employment questions asked in the interview your company could be sued for a large amount of money. There are very serious rules about what is asked to prevent discrimination and there are employment lawyers who specialize in high profile lawsuits of this type. This could not only turn into a huge settlement against your company, but extremely bad PR also.

If you want to protect your company from such things, then hire a good HR Consultant if you are a small company and hire a crack Human Resource Professional if you are a large corporation. And make sure that your HR folks are 100% up all the employment laws and all the changes and believe me they change fast and often. This is one area where on-going education really counts, so pay attention.

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