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Hi .. I joined a 100 ee company in July as HR Director to establish and formalize an HR office which had previously been handled by anyone who had a spare minute! Since then, I have had to do two layo
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Changing HR role

posted at 12/11/2001 1:17 AM EST
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Hi .. I joined a 100 ee company in July as HR Director to establish and formalize an HR office which had previously been handled by anyone who had a spare minute! Since then, I have had to do two layoffs and we are now at 40 employees in two locations.
I have resigned, since I don't feel they need an HR Director .. I have been unable to drive any programmatic work or organizational effectiveness or development work .. survival means day to day administration, which means paperwork related to health and bene's, and that isn't up my alley, as it were. A risky step to voluntarily leap into the unknown at this juncture, but after 9/11, life is too short to spend on benefits paperwork.
I have two questions for this audience:
is this shift in the HR role becoming common or widespread? if so, what do/can we do about it? and/or how are you responding? A consultant told me the see HR coming adrift from it's moorings and I'm interested in other perceptions from within.

Thanks!
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