Are you happy with your Personell Department

Seen in Management Issues

Senior executives across the world have given their HR departments an emphatic thumbs-down, rating them the worst-performing of all their business functions.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual CEO Briefing survey quizzed 555 senior executives, including 226 CEOs, about their priorities and challenges over the next few years.

Asked to rate the performance of various areas of their business, survey respondents slammed their HR functions, with more assessing its performance bad than good.

"No other function-not even the notoriously unlovable IT department-came close to being this unappreciated," the report said.

Almost a third rated HR a 4 or 5 (where 5 is poor), compared with 22 per cent for IT, 20 per cent for knowledge management/research and 20 per cent for marketing/sales.

Pete's Points:

For those of us who work in 'notoriously unlovable' IT departments this comes as a breath of fresh air and a weclome relief. Finally someone is considered more unfavourably than we are

I wonder when they are going to do some research on areas of the work place that undertake procurement and internal audits.

They may be surprised at what they find!