From strategic planning to solidifying your brand image, the Human Resource department plays an integral role in the corporate environment. As the department effectively acts as the voice of an organization, any errors committed by it reflect badly on the entire organization as a whole!

This is why organizations go out of their way to ensure that their HR departments are transparent and unbiased. Make sure that your HR never commits these three ridiculously common mistakes so that your brand image and reputation remains untarnished.

1. Making False Promises:

Since the HR department is usually tasked with completing deals and recruiting new faces, they face a challenge concluding deals where potential candidates are sitting on the fence. To convince them to sign, HR representatives try to sweeten the pot by offering them incentives that simply aren’t true.

While lucrative benefits will help you conclude deals and bring in fresh recruits, it can have disastrous consequences for your firm in the long run. Employees who are sold dreams become disillusioned with the organization once they learn that these promises were false.

Not only does that adversely affect workplace morale, but your employees could even sue your firm for negligent misrepresentation!

2. Failing To Document Performance Issues:

Simply put, the employee handbook should be thought of as the gospel in the corporate environment. Anytime an employee challenges the restrictions of the employee handbook by stepping out of line with unprofessional behavior, it must be documented by the HR department.

Often the HR department is too lenient and does not document these misdemeanors either because they take too long or because they like the individual in question.

Furthermore, by documenting your employees’ instances of poor behavior, you can keep a track of everyone that’s being unprofessional. This can help you identify individuals that are harming your brand, and, should push come to shove, you can use these documented misdemeanors as a viable ground for termination.

3. Picking Favorites:

For the HR department, picking favorites is something akin to the black mark of death. Once it gets known that the administration has a bias towards certain individuals in the workplace, employee morale is bound to suffer because of it.

Not only that, but by rewarding your favorites unjustly, you leave everyone else feeling dejected. This can have a major say in the productivity of the organization and can hinder it from meeting its financial goals.

While we understand it’s human nature to have favorites and like someone more than others, it’s better to keep it away from the office. This is why we believe that rewards in the workplace should be offered solely on the basis of performance and not any other metric.

If your HR department is guilty of any of these cardinal sins, a major change is in order! We at JS Benefits Group have helped countless businesses improve workplace productivity and morale by revamping their HR departments.

With years of experience under our belt, we can provide reliable HR consulting services to your organization and can even help you draft efficient employee benefits plans! So what are you waiting for?

Get in touch with us today to make your HR department as transparent and trustworthy as it can be!