Week 1 Unit 4: Linking HR to

Specific Business Needs

Linking HR to Specific Business Needs
Connecting HR to what business leaders care about

This has nothing Who cares what

Why am I here? to do with my job a competency
is?

Line manager reacting to a new HR initiative

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Linking HR to Specific Business Needs
What got the company here will not get it to where it needs to be in the future

 What commitments have we made to our shareholders? Business

 How are we going to drive profit and growth going forward? Strategy

 What people will we need in the future that we don’t have now? Workforce
 What will people have to do in the future that they aren’t doing now? Implications

 How will this require changing how we: HR Processes

– Recruit, staff & retain the right people
– Align people on the right things
– Ensure people do things the right way
– Provide the right development to build capabilities for tomorrow

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Linking HR to Specific Business Needs
The primary workforce changes created through HR processes

Alignment Productivity
Are people focusing on the Are people doing what we
things that matter for delivering asked them to do?
our strategy?

Efficiency Sustainability
Are we optimizing our Are we at risk of losing key
investment in people? performers? Can we maintain
current performance levels?

Scalability Governance
Do we have processes to (Security & Compliance)
ensure a steady supply of the Is anyone doing things that are
talent needed to execute our creating significant liabilities for
strategies? our business?

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Linking HR to Specific Business Needs
Using HR processes to drive strategy execution

Workforce Changes
Alignment Productivity
Are people focusing on the Are people doing what we asked
things that matter for delivering them to do?
our strategy?

Efficiency Sustainability Business Results

Are we optimizing our Are we at risk of losing key
investment in people? performers? Can we maintain
current performance levels?

Scalability Governance (Security

Do we have processes to & Compliance)
ensure a steady supply of the Is anyone doing things that are
talent needed to execute our creating significant liabilities for
strategies? our business?
HR Processes
Right People, Right Things
Right Way, Right Development

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Linking HR to Specific Business Needs
Focus on HR processes that matter most

Right People Right Way Right Things Right

Development

Alignment

Productivity

Efficiency

Sustainability

Scalability

Security/
Compliance

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