Insulation and Interface Roles of HR

Business Genesis and Community Needs are two major areas that influence industry hr practices. While former is largely driven by commercial interests the latter gets reflected from socio-political framework within which the business need to managed. Even though these areas form a part of boundary management and relies heavily on the stewardship capabilities of leadership positions within an organisation, it often relies on strong functional support from HR leader as well. Organisations need a social insurance cover and to that functional need can be managed only through active support from hr function. Often this gets reflected within the scope of Apex Office HR function and becomes part and parcel of HR Agenda that the HR leader need to manage and carry to the Shareholder. The impact of this function often has far reaching consequences to entire hr chain of actions down below. Notwithstanding above, the emerging trend is to demarcate certain areas under "Corporate Social Responsibility" , CSR, away from hr; more towards Public Relations, Environmental Affairs, Marketing etc. Often the areas covered in CSR relates to Corporate Image , Branding, Corporate Citizenship initiatives and even elements like Environmental issues, Greenhouse Gas norms, Carbon trading etc and in itself it helps greater focus to those areas as well as more time for HR leader for internal HR areas. However such demarcation always demands more financial resources; and not available in vast majority of organisations.