The human resource function audit: A six-step audit to review, measure and assess the role, contribution and performance of your organisation's HR function - Tapa blanda

* Those responsibilities of the HR function where more time and resources should be focused

* Times when the organisation should involve the HR function more closely in strategic planning or in the implementation of its strategy

* New and beneficial ways of structuring or restructuring the HR function

* Ways in which information, skills and knowledge available to the HR function can be more widely used and shared

* New responsibilities which the HR function should take on, and others which it may be able to pass to other functions, line managers, teams or individual staff
Finally, the audit outlines ways of monitoring the performance of the HR function and how it compares against other organizations. In this section, HR best practices and benchmarking techniques are recommended as part of the self-assessment process.