Impact Of Hr Audit on an Educational Institute in Order to Gain Insight into the Present Scenario and Future Prospects So That It Can Set a Benchmark for Educational Sector

Abstract

In the changing economic and business environment, proper Human Resource Management has assumed a crucial role in the growth of the organization. It has become imperative to re-look at this most important asset of the organization. The main objective behind this research was to gain in-depth knowledge of the Human Resource and the effectiveness of HR functions within an organization. The HR audit in University was planned to get a clear judgment about the overall status of most faculties/Departments and to find out whether existing systems and procedures are yielding desired result. This information will be an invaluable input while making strategic decisions. Scope of the HR Audit conducted in this paper was specified as under:1. Audit of the Functional Role of each department and faculty. 2. Audit of the Service Role Of the department/Faculty or unit. 3. Audit of the Compliance to established benchmarks. 4. Audit of the Strategic effectiveness of the department/faculty/unit. 5. Audit of the Financial Management of the department/faculty/unit. The human resource audit involved examining current policies, practices and strategies of all the departments/faculties to verify the effectiveness and helping University to improve its productivity, transparency and efficiency. To conduct Human Resource Audit in University extensive study on various aspects related to faculties, students and staff were analyzed and studied through interviews of staff at various levels, observation of working of non teaching staff, taking responses from students and staff by questionnaire method and documents review at various levels. The firsthand experience has helped us in our specialization in HR as this enhanced our prospective of thoughts. The concise suggestions/ recommendations emerged after in depth analysis and study will provide with a wide scope to understand the functions and mechanism of working in any organization. When we started to work upon the topic „Human Resource Audit in University „ we thought of getting innumerable insights, articles, extracts and relevant materials but to our extreme wonder this field has to be probed and explored further in details as very little is done in this area. As far as our collective perception is concerned, we relied upon the lines from „Psalm of Life‟ by Longfellow..... “Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing; Learn to labor and to wait”.