
What is HR anyway?
HR is a term that’s used to describe the function within an organisation that’s responsible for lots of activities relating to the organisation’s workforce. It’s short for “Human Resources” and focuses on achieving business goals by helping your people thrive at work.
At HR by Tara we cover the full scope of HR activities including:
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Designing the structure of your organisation - roles, responsibilities, reporting lines, capabilities
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Assessing and developing your company culture and employee engagement
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Defining and promoting your employer brand - what makes you somewhere people want to work
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Recruiting and selecting the right people for your team
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Determining pay rates, incentive plans and benefits packages
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Optimising job performance - communicating expectations, motivating staff, giving feedback, identifying and addressing performance gaps
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Co-ordinating training and development
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Employment administration - Offers, onboarding, changes to terms and conditions, leavers
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Maintaining employee records
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Liaising with your payroll provider
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Managing holiday allowances and holiday pay
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Advising on and administering family-related statutory leave (e.g. maternity)
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Creating Team Handbooks, people policies and procedures
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Supporting you and your team with policies and practices around
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flexible working arrangements
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equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging at work
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wellbeing at work
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Advising managers on how to manage people effectively and how to deal with specific situations at work
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Change management and consultation
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Advising managers on conflict resolution - providing mediation services where appropriate
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Case management for issues relating to absence, ill health, poor performance, misconduct, redundancy or employee grievances
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Supporting you with health and safety compliance
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Supporting you with staff data protection compliance
We can work with you on everything from day-to-day admin, right up to strategic business planning - helping your business to be successful through its people.
You may have members of your workforce who are not employees, but who are self-employed contractors. We also provide advice, administration and support regarding the agreements you need to have in place for these individuals. And we can help you determine whether they really are self-employed or not - supporting you to make better informed decisions about employment status.​
