Introduction
This report aims to demonstrate the activities undertaken by the Human Resources Department and reasons to support the retention of the HR Department within the organisation. In the report we will look at these activities and how these support the Organisations Strategy and how the HR Professionals in the team support the Managers of the Organisation to enable them to work effectively to achieve the Trusts Overall Objectives.

How three HR Activities Support the Organisations Strategy
Recruitment and Selection
The Human Resources Department provides a robust and effective recruitment service. This supports the organisations strategy by ensuring the correct people, with the correct skills and experience are recruited.
The ability to attract and appoint staff with the relevant knowledge, skills and attitude is an important aspect of HR. Successful recruitment and retention of staff serves to ensure happy staff, greater morale, productivity and quality of service.
The HR Department ensures that the correct people are employed, first time. This avoids delays in getting the post filled, less impact on current staff and provides a reduction in costs relating to agency/temporary staffing fees. There is now greater emphasis on Values Based Selection. That is, assessing candidates ‘fit’ against our NHS values. At a base level, this means exploring candidate’s motivations and drivers for joining us, assessing their behaviours in relation to their real life examples and understanding their attitudes and ethics.
Enhanced interview training and tools are being introduced to support our Recruiting Managers in appointing only those staff that have the right Behaviours and Values. The ‘right’ candidate will therefore be competent clinically, but will also have the right attitudes, behaviours and values.

Change Management
In an organisation, change is