The Competitive Advantage
Gain the competitive advantage by ensuring that you are strong in all four crucial attention areas of the people side of your business:
- Line manager friendly systems, procedures and tools are available to help management execute their people management role (i.e. the technical-professional and service role of HR);
- Line management are equipped and confident to work within the various labour relations laws and codes of conduct that govern the relationship between labour and management in the workplace (the compliance role of HR);
- Each Business Unit has an overall people management (HR) strategy in place that increases the value of employees to the business (the strategic role of human resources);
- HR systems and procedures are run at optimal cost (financial management role of human resources). Please do not read optimal as lowest cost, but as the right price for the job on hand.
