Where do YOU go for HR advice?

Over the last few years those of us involved in the Workplace Wellbeing project have continually heard of the need for experienced, professional advice about managing staff and good HR practices for community organisations.

So, we recently undertook some research to scope the concept of such an advisory service. The survey confirmed our interest in developing a resource or service.

> See the survey results below

We’re interested in retaining a focus on encouraging good practice as relevant in the community sector, rather than repeating material about legislation and generic HR practice that is already available on a range of excellent web sites.

We’d like to have more discussion with community organisations and people with HR experience on how we could next proceed. We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• HR experience in our sector and interested in working with us to set up an ongoing service (such as a national network).
• Ideas for existing resource organisations or sites that we could further collaborate with.

Contact us if you’re interested in a seeing copy of this research or in finding out more how you can help.

Survey results

234 responses to the survey showed that:

• 62% of those who replied had less than 20 staff.
• Only 23% identified as having any HR experience as a specific portfolio on their Board or Committee.
• Most sought external assistance for—
  • general employment relations management advice;
  • change management, redundancies or restructuring;
  • developing employment agreements;  and
  • managing staff performance.
• 25% identified websites and Freephone services as the professional support that would be most helpful to them.

There was (gratifying) acknowledgement that such an advisory service would involve costs, with 93% favouring a monthly or annual subscription, and 91% favouring a sliding scale of costs.

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