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Sally is an HR employee for her company. She is primarily interested in serving only in an organizational role where she focuses on creating HR policies and procedures. What is the limitation Sally ma

The correct answer is B. She won't be involved in the organization's strategic planning or change efforts.. An HR professional who limits herself to an administrative, policy-creation role operates reactively and is excluded from an organization's strategic planning and change management activities.

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Question

Sally is an HR employee for her company. She is primarily interested in serving only in an organizational role where she focuses on creating HR policies and procedures. What is the limitation Sally may subject herself to, if she focuses only on the organizational role?

Options

  • AShe'll only be involved in the organization's strategic planning efforts.
  • BShe won't be involved in the organization's strategic planning or change efforts.
  • CHer organizational impact will be limited to identifying problems, creating policy initiatives,and
  • DHer organizational impact will be limited to promoting employee performance.

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    75% (18)
  • C
    8% (2)
  • D
    13% (3)

Why each option

An HR professional who limits herself to an administrative, policy-creation role operates reactively and is excluded from an organization's strategic planning and change management activities.

AShe'll only be involved in the organization's strategic planning efforts.

Strategic planning involvement is not a feature of the administrative HR role - it is precisely one of the things Sally loses by staying in that role, making this answer incomplete and misleading.

BShe won't be involved in the organization's strategic planning or change efforts.Correct

The purely organizational/administrative HR role focuses on creating policies and procedures in a reactive capacity, which by definition removes the HR professional from the proactive work of strategic planning and leading organizational change efforts. Both areas of influence are forfeited when the role is confined to policy administration.

CHer organizational impact will be limited to identifying problems, creating policy initiatives,and

Identifying problems and creating policy initiatives describes the core activity of the organizational role itself, not the limitation that results from it.

DHer organizational impact will be limited to promoting employee performance.

Promoting employee performance is too narrow a description of the limitation and does not capture the strategic exclusion that results from staying in an administrative role.

Concept tested: HR strategic partnership vs. administrative role limitations

Source: https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/topics/hr-roles-responsibilities

Topics

#HR roles#organizational role#strategic planning#HR functions

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