Is your organization at risk? Learn how regular HR audits can protect your business, setting it up for long-term success and compliance.
Ineffective HR processes, systems, and policies can hurt your business. If these factors are not continually monitored, a business can find itself on the wrong side of employment laws, such as expensive penalties for wrongful dismissal, inadequate safety standards or outdated policies.
By conducting an HR audit, you can ensure your business and employees are continually compliant with all laws.
What is an HR Audit?
An HR audit reviews the human resource processes and policies to identify areas that may need improvement and what areas are performing well.
Organizations can use an HR audit to ensure compliance while aligning HR programs with business objectives. At Bridge Legal & HR Solutions, we will often use HR audits for clients to ensure a business’s processes truly contribute to their organizational performance.
Why is an HR Audit Important?
Continuously improving your HR processes helps ensure your business is compliant with laws and regulations. An audit can also help your workforce and organization become more successful by ‘trimming the fat’.
Both profit and non-profit organizations can benefit from conducting HR audits in a variety of areas within your organization including:
- Compliance and Policy Development and Procedures
- Labour Relations
- Special Projects
- Wellness Initiatives
- Employee Relations
- Organizational Review and Effectiveness
- Compensation and Pay Equity
- Performance Management
- Recruitment and
- Retention of Staff
- Training and Leadership
- Enhancement Team or One to One Emotional Intelligence Training & Coaching
Where to get started?
Have you ever walked into a Home Depot or Canadian Tire to pick paint colours? You think you have an idea of what you want, but then, there it is… a wall of colours. It’s overwhelming! Hundreds of slight differences in each colour. Where to start?
Talk to a professional.
You don’t need to pay for a pro to come in and completely redo your house, but sometimes talking to someone who knows what they are doing – who can guide you to the right starting point and give you some pointers on how to narrow down the selection is what you need.
The same goes for HR audits.
If you are looking to start or enhance your current HR audits, one of the easiest places to start is by talking to a professional. Even a simple consultation can go a long way towards moving your business in the right direction or even take it off your plate entirely.
That’s the great thing about our HR solutions at Bridge Legal.
We offer HR-On-Demand consulting. You pay for customized services you need, and only when you need them.
So, if you just need help getting something started or want to hand everything over to a professional, our experts will be happy to assist. Short-term or long-term, let us show you how we can benefit your organization.
Contact us at www.bridgelegalhr.ca to book a consultation to discuss your needs.
