Deputy General Manager - Human Resources - Consumer Durable/FMCG

DGM HR

- Strategic HR duties drive creativity and innovation, playing a major part in continual improvement by putting the right people in the right jobs.

- Typical duties include determining the skills of your workforce, what it wants, what you need and how these things fit in to your business model. Strategic HR activities pull the company hierarchy together from bottom to top.

- Typical duties involve coordinating training and development programs; designing employee performance evaluation systems; brainstorming ways to improve communications; and providing operational structures that enforce a truthful, positive, courteous environment.

- Leaders may host employee focus groups to identify and solve problems. Workplace wellness programs are another popular example of strategic HR in action.

- HR administrative tasks put into action the concepts developed during strategic planning.

- In addition to recruiting, hiring and providing employees with details about their duties, working conditions and benefits, HR also keeps employment records and processes a wide range of essential paperwork, from job application forms to time sheets and travel per diems.

- Other staples include sexual harassment; disabilities/reasonable accommodation; violence prevention and response; and disciplinary policies.

- Most of the necessary ground can be covered in an employee handbook that addresses every conceivable contingency. Examples of employee handbooks that have been vetted by liability-savvy corporations are widely available.

- These templates may be adapted to suit your business. To ensure that it's fail-safe, have a labor attorney look over the language.