Shared Service Centers as a Tool for Organizing Flexible Personal Function in an Enterprise

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Keywords
Human resources management, Personnel function, flexible organization

Summary
Polish Association of Human Resources Management (PSZK) there have been identified four main job market challenges in Poland [Czy polscy pracodawcy … 2011]. There are as follow: motivation adjusted to age and sex; lack of talents; retention of talents; and transformation of HR function.The analyses of situation in the scope of the last challenge mentioned shows that a lot of managing personal function workers have got ambition to act a leading strategic role in an enterprise. However, they admit themselves that personal departments are still reduced to a role of a business support or an administrator. The weak side of Polish organizations remains effective measurement of personal function especially rate of return from human capital investment. If personal function is to fulfill role of strategic partner it needs to change an attitude for more professional one in an organization. Desiring to be a business partner personal departments ought to make earnest assessment of their current activities and plan possible development areas for them. Measurements of effectiveness of personnel function should be an active base as though personal departments were able to have strategic function in an organization. Such transformation demands form personnel departments transferring their engagement on new fields and as a consequence reorganizing administration processes through their automation and outsourcing. The aim of the article is to show a meaning of flexible organization of personal processes within contemporary entities and introduction of common center services as a optimization tool and flexible organization of personal function in an enterprise. There are pilot research assessments presented in the article concerning SSC/BPO serving HR processes. The article has got a cause character and is a base for further deepened direct researches.

JEL: M12, M50
Pages: 10
DOI:  1

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