HR Audit.
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The document discusses human resource audits, including their definition, significance, objectives, benefits, and approaches. A HR audit examines policies, practices, procedures, compliance, effectiveness, and efficiency. It identifies gaps, makes recommendations for improvements, and helps ensure HR activities align with organizational goals. The audit scope includes functions like planning, staffing, development, motivation and more. Objectives include assessing performance, implementation, corrective actions, evaluations, and strategy modification. Benefits are improving the HR department, responsibility, uniform policies, and legal compliance.
HR Audit.
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- 2. : 1. Definition Of HR Audit 2. HR Audit Significance 3. Need Of HR Audit 4. Scope Of HR Audit 5. Use Of HR Audit 6. Objectives Of HR Audi 7. Benefits Of HR Audit 8. Special Areas of HR Audit 9. Threats Of HRM 10.FIVE Approaches to HR Audi 11.Period of Audit, Audit Report HR Audit
- 3. An HR audit is a process to review implementation of your institutions policies and procedures, ensure compliance with employment law, eliminate liabilities, implement best practices and educate your managers. Definition: (OR) HR Audit refers to Examination & Evaluation of Polices, Practices & Procedures to detect Effectiveness & Efficiency of HRM and Verify if Mission, Objectives, Polices, Procedures, Programs are chased and expected results achieved. HR Audit also suggest future improvements based on past activities measurement.
- 4. HR Audit Significance: 1. Essential for Organization success. 2. It Provides Required Feedback. 3. Managing Rising Labor Costs. 4. Increasing Opportunities for Competitive Advantage of HRM. 5. HR Audit can avoid Government intervention 6. HRP protect Employees interests Managements Feel, that Employee Participation in Activities is:
- 5. Need for HR Audit: Though, to audit HR- Policies & Practices no legal obligation exists, some Modern Organizations chase to: 1. Increase size of Organization & Personnel 2. Change Philosophy of Management towards HR 3. Increase Strength & Influence of Unions
- 6. Scope of Audit:HR Audi has vide scope, involves much more than Management. Scope of HR Audit Planning - Forecasting Scheduling HR Philosophy Motivation & commitment Policies Organizing leadership styles Personnel Results Staffing & Development Programmes & Practices supervision delegation negotiation Special area Research & Innovation
- 7. Use Of HR Audit: Basic purpose of HR-Audit is to find: 1. How various units are functioning? 2. How they met policies & guidelines Pre-agreed upon? 3. To assist Rest of Organization locating gaps between Objectives & Results. 4. Formulate Plan for corrections
- 8. Objectives: 1. Effectiveness: To review performance of Human resource Department and its activities to determine effectiveness. 2.Implementation: To locate gaps, lapses, failings in applying Polices, Procedures, Practices & HR-directives. Also to see areas of wrong/ non- implementation that hindered the planned programs & activities. 3.Rectification: To take corrective steps to rectify mistakes, shortcomings contesting effective work performance of HR Department. 4.Evaluation: To evaluate HR Staff & employees. 5. To evaluate the extent to which Line Managers Applied Policies Programmes & Directives initiated by Top Management & HR Department. 6.Modify: To review HR System and Modify to meet challenges in comparison with other organizations. 7.Questioning: To seek answers to ‘What, Why ‘When Happened while implementing Policies, Practices & Directives in managing HRs
- 9. Benefits of HR Audit: 1. Identifies contribution of HR Department. 2. Improves HR Department’s Professional Image. 3. Fosters greater Responsibility & Professionalism amongst HR Staff. 4. Classifies HR Department’s Responsibilities & Duties. 5. Stimulates Uniformity of Personnel Policies & Practices. 6. Identifies Critical personnel problems. 7. Ensures Timely Legal Compliance Requirements. 8. Reduces HR Costs
- 10. Pitfalls of HR Audit: 1. Full audit may be time consuming 2. May not be as objective and impartial as desired 3.Impact of certain actions may not be clear
- 11. Special Areas Of HR Audit: Audit of HR Function Audit of Managerial Compliance Audit of HR Climate 1.Employee Turnover 2.Absenteeism 3.Safety Records 4. Attitude Surveys Audit of Corporate Strategy Audit and Human Resource ResearcH
- 12. Audit of HR Function: Major Areas: 1. Planning - Forecasting, 2. Scheduling; 3. Staffing & Development, 4. Organizing; 5. Motivation & commitment ; 6. Administration ; 7. Research & Innovation. Involves all activities of HR Functions, From HRP to IR
- 13. For each activity in the HR Audit functions Auditors must: 1 determine objective of activity. 2 Identify who is responsible for its performance. 3 Review the performance. 4 Develop action plan to correct deviation, between Results & Goal. 5 Follow up action plan. HR Evaluation must justify existence of department & its expenses. Department has no reason to function if fails to contribute to Company’s bottom-line, Prune expenses to make department viable. Auditor’s Role:
- 14. FIVE Approaches to HR Audit: 1. Comparative Approach. 2. Outside Authority Approach. 3. Statistical Approach. 4. Compliance Approach. 5. MBO Approach Auditors may choose any of the five approaches for the purpose of Evaluation.
- 15. Comparative Approach – Auditors Identify another Company as a MODEL. Result of their Organization compared with those of Model Company. Outside Authority Approach – Often, Auditors use standard set by Outside Consultant as BENCHMARK for comparison of own Results.
- 16. Compliance Approach – Auditors review Past Actions to determine if those activities comply with legal requirements and Company Policies, & Procedures. A Final approach is for Specialists & Operating Managers to set objectives in their areas of responsibility. Management By Objectives Approach – creates Specific Goals against which performance can be measured. Then the Audit Team Researches ACTUAL PEERFORMANCE and COMPARES WITH THE OBJECTIVES.
- 17. Audit Report The Prog comes to end with preparation of Report. Report may be Clean or Qualified. It is Qualified if HR Performance contains Gaps for which remedies suggested. Report is Clean where Performance is fairly Satisfactory Naturally any audit will be done annually. Though it is preferred to conduct Human Resource Audit annually, but it is advisable to conduct audit once in three years or five years, keeping in view the fact that the realization of the Organizational goals may not be identified within a year. PERIOD OF AUDIT