In today’s highly competitive business environment, the HR function must not only be focused on handling the core HR functions but also support the company match pace with industry trends. Therefore HR now a day is incorporated into strategic planning; leading more and more companies to opt for the centralized Human Resources to facilitate their corporate objectives.
1. Responsiveness
Though centralized HR staffs with clear strategies, processes and structures operate well from the main office/HQ; ensuring effective workforce management at all the branches of the company is a challenging task. Hence, we’ve listed out strategies for the companies having centralized HR to handle workforce management effectively.
As the Centralized HR oversee and consolidate human resource decisions & activities of all the business units of company from its main office, the HR personnel have to be very responsive in dealing with the primary employee management functions (i.e. which include hiring and firing processes, training and orientation, handling pay & benefits and general motivational strategies). Fundamental steps to make your HR as a responsive one are –
- By making the payroll more efficient and timely
- Reimbursing your employees faster through adopting advanced Expense Management Solution
- Making the process related to Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) smoother, so that the employees can be reimbursed for their medical expenses at the earliest
- Ensuring a well-timed payment of all the final entitlements to the employee who’s leaving the company (i.e. Wages and holiday pay due, gratuity etc.) Together with taking care of processing the retiring/quitting employee’s PF account appropriately
2. Connection
The simplest strategy to sustain your precious workforce and keep them satisfied is by establishing a ‘Connection’ with them. Here’s how you can build long-lasting connections and more loyal tribe.
- Begin with small and simple steps for relationship-building with your employees, by sending them personally signed Birthday wish cards, congratulatory notes etc. Implement ways to make the employees feel that they are valuable to the company.
- Be an active listener and welcome the suggestions, ideas, feedbacks and views of your employees working at different branches of the company. Arrange a meeting of all the employees of the company through video conference on a regular basis and involve each employee to dictate the organization’s overall goals and guidelines clearly. Involve concerned team member/s from different business units/branches in the decision-making process, if the need be.
Remember the more efficient the HR team is the more productive and happier they can keep the company’s employees.
3. Consistency
Consistency is the key to have all the business units on the same page. By spearheading the initiative to build and maintain brand consistency throughout the branches, the centralized HR can achieve a healthy, happy and productive environment your organization requires to thrive. If all the employees are paid, trained and motivated using consistently applied approaches; your customers are more likely to have similar experiences at each office of your company. This is accomplished through –
- Putting proper programs in place to ensure a positive company culture is cultivated and grown. For e.g. Impactful On-boarding program to help new employees acclimate, connect with the culture and engage with the brand.
- Strengthening the brand among employees by clearly communicating the company’s values, employee expectations and core-culture.
- Last but not the least by ensuring that the HR programs dictated by the centralized HR are implemented sincerely at the local level.
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