It is always frustrating for an executive or business owner to answer the same HR question from the same location manager time and time again. For whatever reason, there are certain managers who feel the need to repeatedly confirm an HR decision with you. This laborious process wastes your time, the manager’s time and often keeps an undesirable employee on the payroll for much longer than necessary.
If the problem lies in your inability to delegate these decisions, then you have a significant problem and you should reevaluate your own managerial skills, if, on the other hand, the problem is simply one of reaffirmation, then an HRIS might provide an excellent solution to your problem.
The Dilemma
Business owners and executives often, though unwittingly, task their managers with the job of reading their minds. Without clearly defined policies and procedures, the managers are left to derive their own. As can be imagined, this produces some unfortunate results. Poor decisions are made and the company and the manager suffer the consequences.
Of course, the fault never lies with the owner or the executive and the managers are duly reprimanded. In response to this situation, managers will resort to a policy of “Cover Your Backside” and every decision from that point forward will need to be vetted by their superior. Needless to say, there is much wasted time and duplication of effort inherent in this process.
A Solution
The utilization of an HRIS can immediately address this situation. The system can provide a framework for manager’s to not only make a decision but to make it confidently without the need to interrupt anyone higher in the chain of command. If problems arise, the manager can show that they followed all the policies and procedures. The true nature of the problem can then be addressed rather than simply blaming a scapegoat.
An HRIS is a win-win solution for any small or mid-sized company. In the short term, it helps location or office managers by providing the basis for an impartial HR process that does not require superiors to be in the loop for every decision. In the long term, it relieves executives and business owners from being involved in the day-to-day operations of their facilities and frees them to concentrate on the more strategic problems facing their businesses.
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