The dual role of HR in your transformation process.
HR are central in the organization to create the social conditions of a successful transformation. They are a business partner and their role in building teamwork and the Lean mindsets and behaviors is essential. They should drive and support the organizational changes related to the Lean transformation:
Develop Lean leaders – build and reinforce the new management roles – create the empowerment mindset – develop the relevant training programs – propose the right recognition and reward system allowing to encourage people engagement and build an improvement culture.
Therefore HR efficiency and effectiveness is critical and HR teams should continuously be improving their processes in order to better respond to the company’s requirements. All HR processes should be leaned, such as:
Recruitment
How to improve and speed up the candidates search and recruitment, provide the best candidates to the organization in the shortest lead time, and organize the most effective on boarding process.
Employee administration
Too much time is often dedicated to administrative activities, and the response to employees is not always accurate and timely. HR teams should continuously look for ways to improve these processes to reduce waste and be able to dedicate more time to bring value to the organization: support managers, leaders and employees to build a real team-based organization.
Reduce your HR headcount ratio – build the relevant Human resources KPI’s – create standard and reliable processes.
We can help your HR team in creating the framework of a Lean organization, as well as in becoming more efficient in their own processes.