Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 888 Date: 03/01/2008 Publisher: IRS

HR roles and responsibilities 2008: benchmarking the HR function

TOPICS:
recruitment labour market and economy
HR policy and strategy management techniques
business challenges
training and development training and vocational qualifications
employee relations employee relations challenges and tools

SECTORS:
manufacturing (other)
public services
services (other)

AUTHOR: Mark Crail


The sixth annual IRS HR benchmarks survey sets benchmarks for the ratio of HR practitioners to all employees, analyses the changing shape and size of HR departments, and reports on the professional qualifications expected of practitioners.

On this page:
About our research
Defining an HR practitioner
Ratio of HR practitioners to employees
Chart 1: Number of employees per HR practitioner, 2003-08
Levels of seniority in the HR team
Changes in HR staffing levels
Chart 2: Main reasons for change in HR staff numbers
HR at the highest level
HR reporting lines
Who does what: HR and line managers
Practitioners' qualifications
How HR practitioners spend their time
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Ratio of HR staff to employees
Table 1: by organisation size
Table 2: by broad sector
Change in number of HR staff over the past two years
Table 3: by organisation size
Table 4: by broad sector
Highest level at which HR is represented in the organisation
Table 5: by organisation size
Table 6: by broad sector
Reporting line of the most senior HR executive
Table 7: by organisation size
Table 8: by broad sector
Balance of HR and line manager responsibilities
Table 9: by organisation size
Table 10: by broad sector
Allocation of responsibility within the HR department
Table 11: by organisation size
Table 12: by broad sector

Key points

  • Our survey of 151 organisations finds that the ratio of HR staff to employees is 1:108, with some variation between organisations in different sectors and rather more variation depending on the size of the organisation.
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