How to be an HR Superstar: Values Based Recruitment Part 2

Posted by Mathew French

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17 June 2014

Part 1 of this Blog introduced a concept that is not especially new in HR circles, however, the uptake of aligning personal and organisational values, as a benchmark process in recruitment strategies, has not yet reached a critical mass.

Yet, when a job description, and company values align with individual values, employees are grateful and inspired, both at work and at home. It's a win-win situation for everyone that creates a ripple effect in the workplace, the community, amongst customers, with family and friends. Life is better when there is harmony and cohesion between who someone is and what they do at work, and who they are and what they do when they’re not at work.

Ultimately, harmony contrbutes to growth; of the individual, the company and the bottom line. Conversely, the type of stress borne of a lack of alignment, leads to a decline, in motivation, in health, in relationships, in productivity and in profits.

It's really simple stuff, but again, how many of us really live these principles and how many Organisations have processes in place to promote and uphold them at every level?

In the Human Era, the Human Resources department is really being called on to rise above the humdrum of Administrative input and People Analysis to provide more Strategic business input. Assuming that HR Professionals have the systems and processes they need to free up the time required to contribute this strategic input, what then becomes their modus operandi for implementing the type of strategy that embeds the values equation culturally?

Here is a list of questions take from the Harvard Business Review that will give you an indication of what needs to be in place in order for you to transform your company into a leading edge, innovative Organisation via a values based, game changing talent strategy:

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The success of Netflix in remapping the HR landscape is testament to the relevance and currency of focusing on the values equation in innovative and paradigm shifting ways. The first part of their now infamous 'Freedom and Responsibility' presentation states that 'values are what we value.' Netflix walks their talk (and have become incredibly successful) by hiring for and rewarding behaviours that correlate to values. To embody Human Era values, HR Professionals will need to recruit, train and empower each individual to contribute to the overall cohesion of the business environment as a happy, productive individual.

Whilst it is everyone's responsibility to be fully functioning participants in, and contributors to, a cohesive business environment, it is ultimately the HR Department's responsibility to provide the framework and opportunities for the learning and growth that enable behavioural potentials aligned with values to manifest.

Based on the age-old maxim of ‘as within, so without,’ internal alignment and harmony will produce external alignment and harmony. HR Professionals need to hire for, educate towards and exemplify through action, the values, knowledge, processes and systems that facilitate humans to excel. This excellence will be evident not just in their roles as employees, but as contributors to the greater whole.

It is also imperative for Leaders and Managers to walk the talk of company values, empathising with employees as they work towards embodying a holistic and aligned approach to doing business. This is an art form that many Leaders don't embody and HR also has a responsibility to empower the Leaders within an Organisation to align to and live these values in words and actions, just as much, if not more than other employees are called to.

In the online world of The Human Era, a more collaborative approach to business is becoming the norm. The level of transparency (intended or otherwise), about how individuals and businesses conduct themselves is becoming incresingly transparent. As a result of this, HR needs to provide a process whereby talent is sourced, engaged, developed and retained in a manner that is aligned with Company values at each and every part of the process. The big question remains, how can this be achieved?

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  • Alarming data on cost and effect of bad hiring decisions
  • The significant impact of the talent shortage
  • World's best practice processes for values based recruitment
  • How to create a culture of excellence and retain top tier talent

 

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Topics: Staff Retention, Culture and Values, HR Culture and Values, HR Values, Recruitment, HR Culture

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