By David Parmenter
A letter to the senior management team
Re: Do you understand how a Human resources function can add to the bottom line?
Increasingly today the Human resources function is being cut back and marginalised. The often quoted rationale is “we pay our managers to manage their human resources”.
This article will explore some of the ways the value the HR function can deliver and some of the consequences of depleting the HR resources. The waymark solutions limited better practice studies are showing that a number of HR functions are adding to the bottom line in a number of ways…

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