By John Stredwick
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If they are the professional advisers who stand back from the day-to-day personnel activities, such as recruitment and discipline, giving advice and counselling, how will they develop their skills in these areas to be able to give the advice? If they can do the job better, will not the hardpressed line management want to ‘dump’ these activities back on HR? Taking this form of empowerment further, there has been doubts expressed as to whether employees will perform better in organisations where this process has meant an overload of work and responsibility.
Centre on the customer. HR should help to create boundary-less organisations where the customers’ viewpoint seriously influences policy decisions and ensure that customer-directed activity is central in performance reviews, promotion criteria and reward decisions. Maximise services/Minimise staff. HR needs to focus on its internal customers, identifying where it adds value and driving down its costs. Steward the values. HR’s role should not just be the organisation’s conscience or the ‘values police’.
Even when business is on an even keel, it is sometimes difficult to reconcile the emphasis of individual development through empowerment and learning contracts (See Chapter 10) and the need Chapter 1 Introduction 21 to have a unitarist approach. Where there is a variety of individual developments, there is more likely to be a variety of different views, ideals and objectives. Practitioners have also found Rucci’s advice on reducing their own costs and staff difficult to stomach, especially where he places such great emphasis on simplifying standardisation and moving away from compliance.