HR – To be or not to be a decision-makers: 75% are not

A poll conducted at the CIPD’s HR Software Show 2012 reveals that 75% of UK businesses are not using the expertise of their HR professionals to formulate business strategy while reward is too rarely linked directly to high individual performance.

According to the survey by outsourcing firm PlusHR, 75% of HR professionals not being included when business strategy is formulated.

HR is being used predominantly to communicate corporate objectives (57%), rather than being consulted when actually setting them (25%).

Only 10% of respondents felt that employees’ objectives were totally aligned to those of the organisation, with over half stating that objectives were at best partially aligned, or not at all.

Almost a third of companies have no mechanism in place for performance-based rewards and only 14% could say confidently that “above and beyond” performance was rewarded satisfactorily…

via HR Magazine – Three-quarters of HR decision-makers still not consulted on business strategy reports PlusHR.

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