The shrinking HR department

Benchmarking HR roles and responsibilities in 2012

These are among the key findings of XpertHR's 10th annual benchmarking survey of HR roles and responsibilities, based on responses from 334 organisations with a combined workforce of 360,604 employees. 

XpertHR Benchmarking subscribers can access the results data from this survey in the following ways:

• HR Roles and Responsibilities 2011/12 Drill down into the complete results data. 
• 10 years of HR roles and responsibilities Complete the form to download XpertHR's special benchmarking report on how the HR function has changed over the past decade. 
• XpertHR HR department benchmarker Answer the questions in XpertHR's HR department benchmarker to see how your organisation's HR department measures up. 
• HR roles and responsibilities: the 2012 XpertHR survey XpertHR's detailed written analysis of the latest HR roles and responsibilities survey findings. 

Benchmarking HR influence and effectiveness in 2012

The survey also looks at how HR departments rate themselves in terms of influence and effectiveness in 2012, and finds that the influence of HR is growing: across the whole economy, three-fifths of HR professionals surveyed by XpertHR say that HR's influence throughout the organisation has grown over the past two years. 

HR rises to the challenge

HR departments feel they have reacted well to the challenges of the past year and performed effectively:

• Two-thirds of organisations have measured the effectiveness of their HR function over the past year. 
• Among this group, seven in 10 rate the effectiveness of their HR department as above average or higher. 

If you have any comments or queries about this survey, or about XpertHR Benchmarking, please don't hesitate to contact me directly. 

Michael Carty, benchmarking editor

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