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Earl
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If you are a one man shop in HR - what is your title? Do you consider yourself an HR Director or an Employee Benefits Specialist. Do you feel that one title should pay more than the other title - for this one man shop? Should it matter how many employees are in the company?
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One man does it all...
One man does only benefits, wc, and such, then who does the other stuff? The Owner/CEO/CFO/(and any other titled you want to insert here!)
Multi-site, or one location?
Do other people handle pieces that typically fall under HR, such as recruiting, payroll, management labor training, oversee the employee discipline process, respond to unemployment inquiries, etc?
I am a one person HR department. I started as HR Administrator , than more duties were added and I became HR Manager. This last year I have been promoted to HR Director because now I am totally responsible for many senior management functions such as 401K trustee and all the foreign offices. I sit in on the meetings with the executives and help them design compensation and benefit plans for the company, and help them with changes, downsizing, do all the hiring and firing and all and any discipline problems and internal investigations, both U.S. and Foreign. I also now write company policy. The salary was raised also when I received the promotion. I also help set up new office structures in the foreign companies with banking, CPA services, Office rentals, employee recruitment and payroll. I do all the foreign currency exchanges and foreign banking wires and I still have the jobs I was already doing. I also have to conduct the employee meetings and communicate any and all changes or new policies to the employees.
When I was promoted from HR Administrator to HR Manager I took over all the recruiting, creation of compensation system and PTO system as well as the benefits and safety issues. I also was involved with management in writing policy for the company and revising and rewriting the handbook and supervisor training manuals, plus the jobs I already had.
When I was HR Administrator I did general HR functions such as being in charge of Payroll and New hire orientation, Exit Interviews, counseling employees, training, and company events. I kept the same jobs and added more as I moved up to director.
It took md 25 years to make Director, this is my 25th year with the company.
Shirley
How much is a director paid?
What does a director do?
A director should have a level of responsibility equal to other directors. For example, if the directors are meeting to decide the direction of the company and you aren't part of the meeting, you are not a director. You can insert whatever name in there that you want to- Manager, VP, etc.
Than we grew and for a number of years I did the Payroll, Banking and A/P as my degree was in Accounting.
We grew some more and I just did Payroll for a few years. At that point we hired an HR person.
Than we downsized and I kept Payroll and took on HR, went back to school and got my HR credentials.
Now I mostly do HR and recently took on all the foreign HR duties. I am still in charge of Payroll although I do have someone to help with Payroll if I get too busy my A/P person will run payroll out for me.
Do I need another person...well don't we all! That's not going to happen as long as I am here because I get the work done. We have a good staff, and unless there is a crisis I usually do not have to work longer than 9 hours a day and since I have a home business after hours I don't do a lot at home if I can get out of it. I do sometimes work a few hours on the weekends. That is when I do a lot of writing of manuals and workbooks for training and policies. Once in a while I even get out early on Friday or get a day off!
It is a good thing my kids are all grown and have their own families. Ten years or so from now, when I retire, someone else will have to worry about it. I must be doing a good job because the owner told me I can retire one day after he dies. Guess I will be here a while.
Shirley
We have 53 employees in Idaho at corporate, however, we have two offices in Canada, an office in the UK, a large office in South Africa, and an office in Australia. We have processing plants in Canada and in New Zealand.
The managers of the other subsidiaries handle most things, HR , Payroll and commission checks for Distributors are handled here at Corporate. I actually started, set up and hired most of the employees in the subsidiaries as well as set up the banks, the payroll companies to process payroll and all the tax accounts with the taxing agencies. I did Canada and UK payroll manually for a while, I am really glad that ADP and Ceridian are doing them now.
We had several other countries at one time I think we had 7 but we closed them when we downsized as well as some subsidiaries in the U.S. in Oklahoma, California, Nevada , Michigan as well as Puerto Rico and The Caymans..
While my staff employee base is small we have over 350,000 distributors working selling products which they purchase from us. Basically we sell no product retail but are the support base for our distributors who do.
We have been in business since 1982...I started here in 1983. I think we will be around for a few more years. Our company is a great place to work.
Shirley