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November 2005

HR’s New Role Becoming a Strategic Business Partner ODN National Conference Minneapolis

William Pasmore New York

Overview



Brief Description Of Mercer Delta Consulting (MDC)



HR Transformation and the Evolution of the HR Business Partner Concept



What It Takes to Be An Effective HR Business Partner



Using Diagnosis to Transform Relationships and Opportunities



Staying Focused on Issues that Matter to the Business



Delivering Changes That Make a Real Difference



Some Examples of Doing It Well



Next Steps

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Mercer Delta Clients



Executive leadership at the public-company/enterprise level



Includes CEOs, COOs, Executive Teams, and Boards



Relationships extend out into the organization



$1 billion+ enterprises and smaller high-growth companies



Recognizing the need for change



Aware of own limitations



Looking for assistance

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Illustrative Client Companies

s

Creating Knowledge

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HR Transformation and the Evolution of the HR Business Partner Concept

The Promise of HR Transformation



Substantial cost savings through the automation and outsourcing of routine transactional work and the creation of shared services



More complete, accurate, and useful information management through the creation of comprehensive, all-encompassing databases and HRIS systems



Enhanced accessibility and self-service through 24/7 online and call center support for routine operations



Uniform policy application across locations due to centralization of decision-making in shared systems



Enhanced capabilities through centers of excellence for non-routine work



Freed from the routine work, a new role for HR generalists as strategic business partners

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From Personnel to Business Partner

Approximate Dates 1920s-1930s

1940s-1970s

1970s-1990s

Key Business Issues 

Organic Growth



New Technologies



Diversification



Productivity



Competition



Negotiations



International Competition



Downsizing



Leadership



Change Programs



Performance Management/Rewards

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2000

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HR Role

Survival Shift to Service



Hiring, Training, and Caring for Employees



Globalization



Talent Development



Innovation



Strategic Capabilities



Reinvention

Title for Role 

Personnel



Employee Relations/Labor Relations



Human Resources



HR Business Partner/CCO

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Evolution of Organization Development

Approximate Dates

Key Business Issues

OD Role



Coordination



Surveys



Productivity



STS/Work Design



Motivation



Team-Building

1970s



International Competition



1980s-1990s



Cost-Cutting

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1940s-1960s

2000

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Title for Role 

OD

Quality



Quality



Work-Out



Survival



Reengineering

Change Management

Efficiency



Enterprise IT Systems



Reengineering



Balanced Scorecard 

OE



Globalization



Create New Capabilities



Innovation





Reinvention

Organization Architecture

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Ulrich’s Human Resource Champions (1997)



Four Roles for HR – Administrative Expert – Employee Champion – Change Agent – Strategic Partner

“When HR professionals work as strategic partners, they work with line managers to institute and manage a process that creates an organization to meet business requirements.”

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Examples of Critical Capabilities From Ulrich’s Human Resource Champions 



Align performance measures to strategic priorities Attract and retain high-caliber people



Be the technology leader in the field



Create a shared mindset



Create capacity for change



Demonstrate cultural flexibility



Ensure trust between leaders and workers



Form alliances with a variety of organizations



Have a culturally diverse workforce



Think and act globally

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Have dominant distribution channels



Have committed employees



Identify and develop the next generation of leaders



Improve speed, cash flow, profitability, and productivity every year



Innovate and learn more quickly than competitors



Maintain good investor relations



Manage financial management systems



Take risks



Work in a boundary-less way

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What It Takes to Be an Effective HR Business Partner

Becoming a Strategic Business Partner



Knowledge requirements



Using diagnosis to transform relationships and opportunities



Staying focused on issues that matter to the business



Delivering capabilities that make a real difference

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Business Partner Knowledge Requirements Examples Strategic           

Talent planning Talent development Performance management Executive succession Executive compensation HRIS Shared services Outsourcing/offshoring International law Acquisition assessment Managing diversity

          

Strategic alignment Organization architecture Globalization Enterprise integration Acquisition planning Organizational learning Executive development Cultural integration Change leadership Capability creation Board relations

HR

Business           

Compensation/benefits Recruiting Hiring/firing Data reporting Performance assessment Succession planning Relocation Orientation and training Labor law Merger integration Policy/fair treatment

          

Quality Productivity/lean manufacturing Cost-reduction Process reengineering Supply chain management Work redesign Customer management Product development Change management Metrics/balanced scorecard Team effectiveness

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Using Diagnosis to Transform Relationships and Opportunities

Diagnosis



Provides a powerful way of working with business leaders



Involves a process and a set of principles



Repeats whenever new opportunities emerge



Helps transform relationships

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The Diagnostic Process

Scouting and Agenda Setting

Contracting

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Data Collection

Organizational Diagnosis

Data Feedback

Streams of Work

Implemented Streams Examples 

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Relationship Building



Organization Architecture Culture Change Executive Team Performance Leadership Development

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Data Collection and Analysis



Dialogues - centerpiece of datacollection strategy



Input from business leaders on organizational issues and concerns



Confidential, one-on-one discussions



Structured process for interviewing, recording, analyzing, and reporting interviews with business leaders



Results must feature powerful findings captured in the organization’s own words

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Collaborative Organizational Diagnosis

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Business Leader

HR Business Partner

Action

What do we do?

Knowledge

What does it mean?

Information

What does it say?

Data

What do we see? 19

Core Principles

Process Steps

Core Principles

Getting Started BL   Ownership  

Data Collection Organizational Diagnosis

Collaboration

Iterative  Learning

  Interpretive Diagnosis

Data Feedback Streams of Work

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Change   Leadership   Skills

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Six Dimensions of Relationships That Enable Change

Building Trust Advocacy

Personal Investment

Collaboration

Courage

Interpersonal Agility Mercer Delta Consulting

Source: Carucci and Pasmore. Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change, Jossey Bass, 2002

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Staying Focused on Issues That Matter to the Business

Staying Focused on Business Issues



What are the issues that matter? – What’s keeping business

leaders up at night? – What’s the “moose on the

table” regarding the future? – What drives the bottom line? 

Changing how you spend your time and attention



Not getting pulled or pushed back into the old HR box

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Delivering Changes That Make a Real Difference

Congruence Model

Informal Organization

Input Environment

Resources

Output System

Strategy

Formal Organization

Work

Unit

Individual

History

People

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Two Key Challenges

1. Creating a new strategy

that seizes market opportunities and makes full use of the organization’s competitive advantages

1. Designing an organization

that supports the full and effective execution of the new strategy

Informal Organization

Input Environment

Resources

Output System

Strategy

Formal Organization

Work

History

Unit

Individual

People

Informal Organization

Input Environment

Resources

Output System

Strategy

Formal Organization

Work

History

Unit

Individual

People

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Some Examples of Doing it Well

Strategic Business Partners Par Excellence

Noel Tichy/Steve Kerr

Richard Antoine

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Business Partner Career Paths Examples HR Executive

Strategic           

Talent planning Talent development Performance management Executive succession Executive compensation HRIS Shared services Outsourcing/offshoring International law Acquisition assessment Managing diversity

          

Strategic alignment Organization architecture Globalization Enterprise integration Acquisition planning Organizational learning Executive development Cultural integration Change leadership Capability creation Board relations

HR         

HR Generalist

Strategic Business Partner

Business 

HR Specialist

OE Executive



Compensation/benefits Recruiting Hiring/firing Data reporting Performance assessment Succession planning Relocation Orientation and training Labor law Merger integration Policy/fair treatment

          

Quality Productivity/lean manufacturing Cost reduction Process reengineering Supply chain management Work redesign Customer management Product development Change management Metrics/balanced scorecard Team effectiveness

Business Partner

OE Professional

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Next Steps

Next Steps: What You Can Do



Make it personal



Begin with conversations and diagnosis



Build stronger relationships



Stay focused



Measure impact of changes on business results



Commit to learning

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We Could All Stand to Learn More About…



Developing extremely effective leaders



Creating more flexible but still highperforming organizations



Working globally, virtually, horizontally, and spontaneously



Inventing and implementing new business models in old companies



Changing cultures: making customers, values, and integrity real



Organic growth



Leveraging diversity for business results



Strategic design



China and India

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