Guidelines to Start & Grow Your HR Department

Being one of the most important and influential departments within any company, HR departments has been gaining much popularity in Nepal too. Apart from recruiting & selecting employees, managing payroll, etc., the HR department also ensures smooth internal communication between management and employees along with communicating company news, keeping employees happy, and resolving employee conflicts.

Moreover, a group of HR professionals can help shape the business culture and improve the way your employees work both individually and within a group. A winning work culture is essential for the success of any business as this is what determines employee satisfaction and workplace happiness. This in turn leads to increased performance, productivity and more sales/profit for the business.??

If you are looking forward to set up an HR department in your organization, simply follow these steps:?

1. Research on How it Works?

The first step to setting up your HR team is learning about the working mechanisms of the department, role of the HR team & its functions. The number of personnel required in an HR department depends on the nature and scale of the organization. However, below is the basic structure of a Human Resource Department:

• The Director of Human Resources: The leader of the team and the one who creates HR strategies and reports to the upper management.?
• The Human Resources Manager: Reporting to the Human Resource Director, Human Resource Manager focuses on retaining effective operations of human resources team.?
• The Staffing Coordinator: responsible for recruiting, creating/updating job descriptions and scheduling interviews.?
• The Development Officer: One responsible for creating training programs to train new and current employees.?
• The Human Resources Generalist: as an entry-level role, this person helps with administrative tasks and helping out the director or manager.?

Learning how a HR team works and which people it consists of is essential to adding the right people to your team and determining what their role is within your company.?

2. Find an Experienced HR Manager

Once you’ve hired the director of the team, now move on to finding the HR manager. You need to be very cautious with this hire, since this person should be able to immediately take all of the department’s responsibilities and has a certain level of knowledge and experience in the field so that they can lead effectively.??

When looking to hire an HR manager, you should first evaluate their way of working and find out what is their idea of a winning company culture. In the interview, ask questions that reveal their intentions and how they are planning to communicate with the rest of the team and what their role will be in your company.?

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