Why HR Should Reports To Operations

Can you Pls join me in the open discussion of on Why The HR People Should reports to Operations People
Regards,
Narasimha Enni

As most of the work of HR pertains to legal and finance in my opinion the final reporting should be with the finance head.

This doesn’t happen all the time. It all based on the structure of the company and organizational hierarchy. VP-HR or Director-HR reports to CEO or the president of the company. In case, the head of HR department is of not that level, for example the head of HR is Assistant Manager or Manager then he is asked to report of the CFO or CTO.


In case, the branches of the company are spread across the country or globe, then in that case HR Head (VP-HR or Director HR) sits in the corporate office and in branch offices they place Senior HR Executives or Assistant Manager or Manager HR. In such cases, it is not possible for VP-HR or HR head to trace the work done by Executive or Manager at branch level hence they are asked to report to the branch-head or operations head.

I hope I have cleared your doubt.

Thanks and Regards
Sanjeev

Thanks Narasimhan for the question posed.

The answer depends upon so many factors: the size and structure of the organisation in question, its culture, whom you are directing the question to, etc.

The following website HR Survey: Who Should HR report to? quotes a survey conducted in 2006. according to which of the 93 respondents

"Eight two (82) percent identified the CEO as the senior executive to whom HR should report. Eleven (11) percent suggested the COO and six (6) percent chose other. Zero (0) percent selected the CFO, which ironically oversees the HR function in many organizations."

Leadership and Management Success Tips: Business Management Success Tips - Why HR Should Never Report to Finance In this website the author gives the reason why HR should not report to Fiance, though that is what happens in a number of organisations.

One more site with the views of Dr. John Sullivan of San Francisco State University can be found at <link no longer exists - removed>

Have a nice day.

Narasimhan