Who does HR Report to in your organization?

seeleyhr · August 2004

Company in process of redoing organizational chart with retirement of officer. Just wondered who other HR people report to? President, Vice President, Financial Operations, etc.

AJ SPHR · August 2004

Prez

LarryC · August 2004

The President herself.

pork1 · August 2004

SEELEYHR: I report to the General Manager of the this state operating company, who reports to the President, who happens to be the son of the owners and an owner himself. The General Manager is the operating decision leader for this company. The President consults on operating actions and is directly involved in all legal activity; otherwise, he visits when he wants to fly his jet in for an update and take a look around the state. The operating division of the company produces the BACON, ribs, hams, and on and on, and on not much waste to a hog.

PORK

seeleyhr · August 2004

Seems like I read somewhere that HR should report directly to the owner and not to anyone involved in financing. However, we are only 90 employees.

dchr9203 · August 2004

Currently report to CFO, which I do not recommend! All other professional hr jobs until now, I have reported directly to the top dog.

Carolsmith · August 2004

As Director of HR, I report to the CFO. The CEO and President are the owners of the company and they do not get involved in the day to day operation of the company. In fact they live in another state. Reporting to the CFO has not created a problem for me. He and the Chief Operating Officer report directly to the CEO and President and together "run" the company. Prior position, I reported to the President. Both companies have about 200 employees.

HR in CA · August 2004

To the COO

HRCalico · August 2004

President, but when you're only 70-some strong, there aren't many options.

Rockie · August 2004

I report to CEO

rad · August 2004

We have 2 HR organizations. The corporate group reports to CEO, the HR group that supports operations reports into the VP.

ray a · August 2004

On paper the Vice President of Operations, in practice the President and CEO.

hhaynal · August 2004

HR reports to President of company.

DeidreFR5 · August 2004

Senior Vice President (Retail- Branches, Marketing and HR) - we are a 180 ee bank.

TN HR · August 2004

VP & GM, recently changed title to President since each one of our plants is a wholly-owned subsidiary. We are a 531 ee's strong (and growing)!

I agree that you should avoid reporting to any bean-counter within the organization. In my experience it's seldom a good fit.

Gene

WT · August 2004

I report to the CEO. Human resources needs to report to the top just like any other department. If not, it will hurt the department and diminish your credibility.

Beave · August 2004

Administrator & BOD

ScorpioHR · August 2004

Chief Operating Officer.

turbo · August 2004

All 3 owners - 105 employees private company. Each decided to have their hand in part or HR's business - but none will make a decision. I've been waiting on approval of an employee handbook since I put one together 15 months ago when I started here. So far - no feedback on draft and draft hasn't been adopted.

So three heads are not better than one.

Sunny · August 2004

The HR person at each of our plants reports to the top person at the plant (GM or Dir. of Ops) with a dotted line to the VP of HR at Divisional who reports to the President.
Never to a bean counter.

djacobs475 · August 2004

To the CEO. We now have a new CEO, who is working on a new org chart. I have a feeling he is going to change the whole reporting structure, and will have me reporting to the CFO (once he hires one).

For those of you that have experience reporting to both the CEO and CFO, can you tell me what changes I should be on the look out for?

Thanks.

TN HR · August 2004

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>For those of you that have experience reporting
>to both the CEO and CFO, can you tell me what
>changes I should be on the look out for?
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>Thanks.

Prepare to get challenged on every initiative/project/expenditure from a cost/benefit standpoint. Your budget, if you're lucky to even get one, will be very lean.

In my experience, it has been difficult to get bean counters to understand that not all HR initiatives can be measured from a tangible $$ standpoint. At least not initially. If you can't show ROI up front as it affects the bottom line, their ears close and upper lips pout.

Gene

Leslie · August 2004

GM

dchr9203 · August 2004

AMEN!!!!

jfletcher · August 2004

The President/COO...although the Controller wants me badly...he has a need to have his finger in the HR pie

HR Pam FL · August 2004

Hi Everyone
I have been reading everyday the Great information you all provide and thought I would jump in also. HR reports directly to the President for our company.

Kiwi · August 2004

To the President.

System · August 2004

seeleyhr,

We asked this question in last September's HRhero.com Monthly Survey, on the topic Your HR Department. We asked, "Who does the head of HR report to?" Here are the responses from 682 private-sector, for-profit companies with 50-200 ees:

CEO 21%
President 31%
Vice President 14%
Finance Department 14%
Operations Department 4%
Other 11%

Responses were different for different-sized companies.

You can find the complete survey results in the Subscribers Area of this website:
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/lc/[/url]

Click on the yellow Survey box. Once you get to the survey results, you can click on "Filter Results" to narrow it down to companies like yours.

Hope this helps.

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

2445428 · September 2004

seeleyhr,

Have you noticed that in the name line of messages it gives the state location incorrectly?

ritamcguire · August 2004

Report directly to the COO with an open door to the President/Owner.

Caroliso · August 2004

This best describes my situation as well. We are about 130 strong and recently had a complete reorg of our administrative structure. I used to report directly to President but he wanted to devote more time to development and less to operations so he promoted CFO to COO, realigned all administrative departments under COO, and reduced his direct reports from five to two. I still work with President directly on a few initiatives and have a dotted line relationship I guess. And an open door.

Who does HR Report to in your organization?

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