HR and Balanced Scorecard
Human resource performance greatly affects overall performance of the company, especially a big one. If a corporation consists of various departments and business units it is very important how personnel is managed, and whether or not human resource goals comply with strategic goals of the company.
Implementation of balanced scorecard is possible on the level of a human resource department. Moreover, some companies prefer starting work with balanced scorecard on a department level to see how things work out. If such companies have a positive experience in implementation of balanced scorecard then the system is implemented on a larger scale.
Anyway, goals and measures of balanced scorecard should be tied to a strategy. In other words, when drawing a strategic map, it should be evident how improvements in human resource management result in implementation of different goals in the four perspectives of balanced scorecard: financial, customer, internal business processes, learning and growth.
In other words, company management must understand how reorganization and measurement of human resource department will affect performance of the company in general. For example, in order to achieve positive financial results in the company needs to attract more customers and to retain existing ones. To achieve that, new approaches in customer relations must be used and the company should offer new products and services at competitive prices. In its turn, this is only possible if personnel can actually use these methods. Obviously, the company needs the best professionals in a certain area to gain competitive advantage. This set of cause and effect ties vividly demonstrates how improvement in human resource policy results in implementation of financial goals.
If balanced scorecard is isolated in a certain department, it may turn out that different business units are moving different directions. A strategy map is a well balanced system containing measures and goals related by cause and effect ties throughout BSC categories.
For example, such an indicator as employee turnover rate may directly influence sales growth of the company. If people do not want to work for a company for a long time they are probably not even their best efforts to benefit the company. This explains low sales growth rate. This is just one of the various examples of how balanced scorecard can visualize company strategy and make it understood at all company levels, from top management to ordinary personnel who directly contacts with customers.










