Take a look through the current list of HR roles on Askgrapevine, Changeboard or Totaljobs and at least 99% of them will have job titles that reflect the process, the function or the relationship they are responsible for. So, a Head of Recruitment is responsible for the recruitment process; a Head of L&D for the learning and development process; an HR Director is responsible for the HR function; an HR Business Partner is responsible for developing a partnership relationship with the business. But is that how the success of the role is measured? By the efficiency of the process, the running of a department, the quality of the relationship? Well, of course these are important KPIs but what about all the valuable commercial outcomes we hear so much angst about – the successful resourcing of the business, the development of key skills, the growth of an effective workforce?

Paskpartnership Ltd welcomes interesting and relevant articles on issues facing today’s business leaders. Alice Young has had a career that has spanned commercial, social enterprise and non-profit organisations where she has shared and developed best-practice talent acquisition and HR models to enable businesses to perform optimally.   Currently at Apple, she provides governance, HR and talent […]