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HR GPS is based on research by Dave Ulrich. He describes the HR function’s four roles as follows:
- Strategic Partner: the HR-function contributes by helping the organisation develop strategies, by asking the right questions in order to transform the strategy into concrete actions and by developing HR practices that are in line with the organisation’s strategy.
- Change Agent: as a change agent, the HR function facilitates and coaches the organisation’s transformations and the related changes in culture, work organisation and deployment of human resources.
- Employee Champion: the HR function fosters employees’ development, is involved and, this way, develops the organisation’s human capital.
- Administrative expert: the HR function enables the successful execution of essential operational HR processes, using an efficient HR infrastructure.
Ulrich positions these four roles on two axes. The horizontal axis denotes whether a role is process-oriented or people-oriented. The vertical axis indicates whether operational processes or strategies are more important.
In a few moments, you will start using HR GPS. HR GPS consists of 3 steps. Together, they take approximately 15 minutes.
- Step1: You enter a series of organisational characteristics. These details enable us to analyse and report anonymous benchmark data, in cooperation with the KU Leuven Research Center of Organisation Studies.
- Step 2: You answer 40 questions about your HR function’s contribution within your organisation.
- Step 3: You are offered a clear overview of your role positioning, along with specific recommendations.
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You can save your answers. In addition, you can forward your results to the HR consultants at Acerta. You can then contact them for a detailed discussion of the results. If you do not register, you participate anonymously. Your responses will be added to our database with benchmark data, without identification information.
