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Make human resources a partner

Make human resources a partner

From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce

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Make human resources a partner

- If you're going to be a manager in a world of unbundled work, you need to a Human Resources department for a world of unbundled work. As an adaptive manager, you need to tell your HR department, what it is you really need. Now that could sound like a lot of added work for you, but if HR hears from you and from a lot of other managers in your organization, they're far more likely to adapt to the needs of a rapidly changing world. Well a traditional HR department has two major functions, helping to find and develop the best possible workers for the organization, and a whole bunch of administrative activities. But those two functions require two totally different mindsets, and often they need completely different kinds of people to perform them. As a manager who's hiring, you know the drill. You're going to typically process the paperwork to establish an open job requisition, or a req. You write a job description, your HR department takes that description, sifts through its database of…

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