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5 Reasons Your Small Business Human Resources Department is Failing

Source: Business 2 Community.com September 22, 2014

Back in the day, human resources was referred to as personnel. Personnel handled all aspects of
employee managementfrom hiring to firing to payroll. Eventually companies started branching out
and creating true human resources departments. HR focuses on management, recruitment,
retention, and conflict resolution, while payroll handles the aspects of payments and insurance.

Unfortunately, in too many small businesses, the human resources department fails to deliver. This
happens for a wide range of reasons:

HR manager has been given human resources duties, but he or she has insufficient training
Not having documented policies and procedures in place, which includes developing a
handbook
Handling situations inconsistently, which only confuses employees and causes them to lose
faith in management
Interference by owners or senior management into human resource responsibilities can derail
the efforts of HR

If youre struggling with these or additional challenges, your small business will likely benefit from
bringing in an HR consultant. He or she can provide strategic support, perform a compliance audit,
and generally be available for HR questions and emergencies as they arise.
If you feel like your human resources department isnt efficient, here are five ways it could be failing
your company.

1. You Dont Offer Competitive Compensation
2. HR is Making Job Applications Too Complicated
3. Performance Reviews Are Non-Existent
4. Youre Not Hiring Skilled HR Professionals
5. HR is More of a Part-Time Role

Ultimately, your HR department determines how successful your small business will be at lowering
employee turnover rates. Hiring a qualified individual to solely head up your in-house HR activities
or engaging an HR consultant to help you with thatshould be your first step.





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Focus on Vocabulary

Back in the day used for talking about a time in the past, usually when you are remembering nice
things about that time.
handle to have responsibility for, or be in charge of something.
fire to remove someone from their job, either because they have done something wrong
or badly
payroll a list of employees and their salaries
branch out to start to do something different from what you usually do, especially in your job.
derail to prevent something from continuing in the way that it was planned.
struggle to try hard to do something that you find very difficult
bring in to use the skills of a particular group or person.
arise (formal) to happen.
part time If you work part-time or do part-time work, you work for only some of the day or the
week.
ultimately finally, after a series of things have happened.
turnover rate the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period
sole the sole person or thing is the only one of a particular type.
head up to be responsible for something


Connect the below idea(s) to make a sentence.

1 unfortunately /fire__________________________________________________________________
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2 company/grow/branch out___________________________________________________________
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3 need/ bring in_______________________________________________________________
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4 low salary/ turnover rate_____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

5 new project/ head up_______________________________________________________________
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