Human Resource Management Bottom-line Improvement

QUESTION 3

As a human resource manager, how might you go about convincing top management  that you should be heavily involved in the company's strategic planning process? Stress the potential for bottom-line improvement brought about with the help of HRM in the various areas.

                Well, there are several ways I can think of to convince top management of my heavy involvement in the company’s strategic planning process.  First, I can focus on showing them the importance of hiring the right people for the job required.  For example, I can point out the best performers in the sales department which the HR department has chosen and how much they contribute to the company.  Another way is pointing out the savings the HR department has made because of proper recruitment of people, specifically pointing out how some employees who have different skills can be valuable to the company.  Most importantly, I should be able to point out to the top management how the HR department contributed to achieving the goals of the company, whether it be in monetary profit or man hours lost.  It is important, at this point, for making the top management realize that the HR department is an important ally in achieving whatever directing the company’s top management wants to take.  That the HR department is an active and valuable partner in ensuring that the company meets all its profit goals and even contribute to its business expansion in the future.

            Working in HR also allows one to find ways to improve the performance of the company from the bottom up.  Since the HR manager should practically know everyone and their specific skills and liabilities, the HR manager can definitely communicate with each employee, especially those who work in the frontlines, to find out what their problems and concerns are, and from there, address these concerns, if the HR department can take care of it, or bring it to the attention of the top management, especially if it is crucial to achieving the profit goals of the company.  Taking care of the backbone of any company, be it the sales department, or the research department, the HR manager will be ensured that the company will grow in both sales and research development for the years to come.  Opening the communication lines with these employees allows the HR manager to have direct access to what these frontline employees are experiencing and can feed this information back to the top management when needed.  Using training and development, the HR department can practically boost the performance of any of the company’s department, as it tries to be in step with what the industry is demanding and what the employees are providing as individual performances of their jobs.