HR Organization Flashcards
HR position that has a strategic role. They are typically part of the organization’s senior leadership team, and ideally, they report directly to the CEO.
HR Leader
HR position responsible for units within the HR function, such as employee relations, talent acquisition, and organizational development. They plan, direct, and coordinate the activities for their unit and provide input to the leader for HR strategy.
HR Manager
HR position also known as functional experts. They have expertise in specific areas such as compensation and benefits design, talent management, metrics, IT, occupational health and safety, organizational development, and workforce relations. Their role is to apply best practices in their discipline to advance the HR startegy.
HR Specialist
HR position also known as HR practitioners. They are familiar with all of HR’s varied services. They may have expertise in one or more specialty areas of HR but are generally proficient enough in each area to provide sound advice and direction to employees and managers. They work closely with their specialist coworkers to ensure that the information and programs they are providing to their employees are accurate and complete.
HR Generalist
More experienced generalists who are assigned to represent HR services directly to other business functions. They use a deeper understanding of the business - both the organization and the function - to find ways that HR can help functions achieve their goals.
HR Business Partner
All HR personnel located within HR department; delivers services to entire organization
Centralized
HR staff within each function, business unit, or location carrying out required activities.
Decentralized
Headquarters HR is staffed with specialists who craft policies. HR generalists, who may be located within divisions or other locales, implement these policies, adapt them as needed, and interact with employees
Functional
Allows organizations with different strategies in multiple units to apply HR expertise to each unit’s specific strategic needs.
Dedicated
Each business unit can supplement its resources by selecting what it needs from a menu of shared HR services (usually transactional) that the units agree to share.
Shared Services
Shared service centers savings and increased productivity by locating similar, more transactional processes in one location.
Center of Excellence (COE)
A third-party vendor provides selected activities
Outsourcing
A third-party vendor provides dedicated services to HR, often locating contractors within HR’s organization.
Cosourcing
