{"id":1116,"date":"2017-06-19T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:14:51","slug":"hallmarks-of-effective-hr-management-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/hallmarks-of-effective-hr-management-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmarks of Effective HR Management Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are your managers locked into hr management practices or intiatives that sounded good or seemed to work well in other organisations but <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/In-place-but-doing-what-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"picture of hr practices but manager's view ahead is obstructed\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/>just do not produce tangible results in your organisation? \u00a0 Despite managers&#8217; time and effort, you do not see progress towards achieving your service or business goals.\u00a0 Common causes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>those practices are not suited to your organisation&#8217;s context;<\/li>\n<li>hr initiatives are taking managers&#8217; focus away from operational issues;<\/li>\n<li>some hr practices are pulling in different directions and compouding the situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #9b0505;\">HR Practices May Focus on the Wrong End<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There are many aspects to managing people which require effective processes and decisions and taking the occasional risk.<br \/>\nYes risk taking is required in hr management to ensure that the processes and actions help to balance the needs of the individual and the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>You can have the &#8216;required&#8217; strategies and processes but are they focusing individuals and teams on the right goals, the key steps and behaviours to deliver the ends required?\u00a0\u00a0 Can you see improvements and the way in which those initiatives reinforce key goals and objectives?<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #9b0505;\">The Effectiveness of HR Practices Decays Over Time<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Conditions within an organisation are changing constantly and that means hr management practices decay in the sense that they no longer produce the desired outcomes. \u00a0 Examples are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reward schemes continue to legitimise actions that are no longer appropriate or helpful;<\/li>\n<li>Suitable applicants are glossed over by out of date or &#8216;safe&#8217; selection criteria [1];<\/li>\n<li>Pay structures become distorted by market pressures or roles that have to be shoe horned into the existing method of evaluating jobs;<\/li>\n<li>Terms of employment do not continue to reflect the nature of the organisation and so leave managers exposed when incidence arise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because hr management aspects are intertwined it can be difficult to know where to start without creating more problems.<\/p>\n<p>One way is to step back for half an hour and assess whether you could save time and money and improve the outcomes by changing the emphasis of what is being done or what aspects need to be pruned back.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #9b0505;\">Hallmarks of Effective HR Management Practices<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>To help you to carry out such an assessment, we now provide a free, easy to use tool.\u00a0\u00a0 This helps to focus your attention on various aspects of hr management which we have found, from both managerial and consulting experience, are key aspects that need to be reviewed to ensure that your people, at all levels, are working to the appropriate end results and in a way that will bring benefits to your service or business.<\/p>\n<p>You can download a copy of the assessment by visiting the following page on our main website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/hallmarks-of-effective-hr-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hallmarks of Effective HR Management.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have queries about completing your assessment or the issues raised, feel free to give us a call.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our blog contains a range of articles on topices that interest managers and suggested alternative options &#8211; this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to our HR Management Dimensions blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0 See an earlier blog article &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/blog\/exposure-v-experience-the-better-way-to-identify-capable-adaptable-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exposure v Experience \u2013 the better way to identify capable, adaptable staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <strong>2017 HR Management Dimensions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered\" title=\"Twitter Follow Button\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/follow_button.7bf2b0e802ada47dae9548b7a1739fed.en-gb.html#dnt=false&amp;id=twitter-widget-0&amp;lang=en-gb&amp;screen_name=HRMgtDimensions&amp;show_count=false&amp;show_screen_name=true&amp;size=m&amp;time=1497866988337\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-screen-name=\"HRMgtDimensions\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Web Site and Related Sites<\/em><i><br \/>\n<\/i>Web site:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR Management Dimensions<\/a><i><a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/i>Blogs: <a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/hdsuphr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Headsup HR\u00a0 <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR Management Dimensions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Facebook Page of HR Management Dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are your managers locked into hr management practices or intiatives that sounded good or seemed to work well in other organisations but just do not produce tangible results in your organisation? \u00a0 Despite managers&#8217; time and effort, you do not see progress towards achieving your service or business goals.\u00a0 Common causes are: those practices are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,21,13],"tags":[168,169,170,167],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-relationsengagement","category-hr-management-dimensions","category-organisational-change","tag-assessment-of-the-effectiveness-of-hr-management-practices","tag-effectiveness-of-personnel-management-initiatives","tag-free-assessment-tool","tag-hallmarks-of-effective-hr-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-management-dimensions.co.uk\/HRMDmn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}