Whether a small family business or a globally active company, finding the right people is becoming ever more challenging for every HR department. The shortage of skilled workers has become the pain point of the German mid market, and good staff a resource critical to success. New, good team players are rare. And developing the existing team continuously, making it fit for the future and keeping it in the company is a real challenge. With professional, strategically anchored personnel work, mid sized companies can set themselves up more strongly for these challenges.
How to create a good basis for strategic personnel work
Not every company needs an entire HR department to make the human resource and the corporate culture effective. Sometimes a single HR officer is enough. That depends on many individual factors such as size, industry, complexity or planned direction.
However lean or complex the individual infrastructure is, we accompany and advise mid sized companies that want to develop their personnel work further. The tasks of those responsible for HR are wide ranging. They include:
- Short to long term planning of staffing levels and needs, including succession management
- Recruitment: job descriptions, internal and external recruiting, employer branding and employer attractiveness
- Administrative tasks such as cost planning, contract design, time management and payroll
- Introducing new employees through onboarding
- People development through encouraging and qualifying employees, including development and career paths, leadership development and performance management
- Offboarding with references and an appreciative farewell
Ultimately it is always about establishing processes and tasks around personnel work simply and transparently, clarifying responsibilities and implementing all processes purposefully.
Large or small: an HR department makes sure you stay competitive
THE MAK'ED TEAM looks at the company holistically and focuses on its individual requirements: which values does the company live? Which processes exist and how are they lived? Who holds which roles and responsibilities in the HR processes?
When it comes to planning individual staffing needs, the question is: how many employees with which qualifications does the company need today and in future, in which roles? Long term workforce planning is important for making sure the organisation stays capable and competitive in future as well. Recruiting and onboarding are very significant here as milestones in the process of settling new employees in. In parallel, people development strategies and concepts are developed in order to keep training the existing pool of staff and to secure succession in each position.
The company's external image plays an important role too. Employer branding is about how our client presents itself attractively as an employer in public and how it carries its values and its stance to the outside world. The aim is to build a strong employer brand internally and to communicate it effectively externally. That way the company becomes visible, and attractive, to new talent and specialists.
Next leadership: becoming an attractive employer on equal terms
In all topics and HR processes, the HR department or the person responsible for HR works hand in hand with company leadership. The leadership level plays an active part here and should plan important personnel aspects such as succession management early and keep developing itself in its leadership role.
Company leadership with a clear stance and transparent, appreciative communication makes sure that the company's values are visible and tangible for every employee. That creates meaning and provides orientation. Because in the end one thing above all decides whether people leave or stay: whether they can identify with the company and its values and feel part of the ecosystem, or not. Successful personnel work therefore makes sure above all that a new employee settles in quickly, unfolds their potential fully, keeps developing it and stays with the company for a long time.
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