Who is the CEO of the Australian HR Institute?

Lyn Goodear, CEO at the Australian HR Institute, says confidence in the ability to do one’s job comes with professional certification and recognition of those standards from outside the profession.

Where was IPMA HR conference supposed to be held?

IPMA-HR’s Executive Council has decided to cancel the 2021 International Training Conference and Expo, originally planned to be held in Indianapolis this fall.

When is HR professional aligned with the business?

When HR professionals are aligned with the business, the personnel management component of the organization is thought about as a strategic contributor to business success.

Do you always understand what the HR department does?

Part of it is, of course, that employees don’t always understand what the HR department does. If the HR function in your organization is not transforming itself to align with forward-thinking practices, executive leadership must ask HR leaders some tough questions.

Why does the head of HR Report to the CEO?

Yet companies in which the head of Human Resources (HR) doesn’t report to the CEO are doing just that—excluding the voice of the employees, the human resources, from the table. People are the most important resource in your business.

Do you have to talk to HR about incompetent manager?

And similarly, if HR hears about, say, an incompetent or struggling manager, HR’s job is (generally) to find a way to address it. They can’t remain quiet if that would violate their professional obligation to the company. But there are good ways and bad ways of doing this:

Why does HR have to keep things confidential?

Employees that expect justice or even things to go their way, are concerned more about themselves than the company. HR is there to protect the best interests of the company, not necessarily the employee. There is at least ONE issue in which I think HR should keep confidentiality; especially since they often say they will.

Is it true that HR owns the culture?

Some organizations say that HR owns the culture, but as in all other employee relations matters, we recommend that the ownership is spread across all employees. HR owns the overall talent management processes.