Human Resource Consultant Role

The role and aim of a human resource consultant:
A human resource consultant is crucial in a business as this person is responsible for providing advice on human capital management. A human resource consultant also helps train employees, the recruitment process as well as to develop and communicate policies. They also need to assure quality checks, and to check that labor law and human resource policies are followed in the business practices. A human resource consultant has four roles: employee champion, administration expert, strategic partners and change agents.
Human resource activities:
Employee champion:
This means the human resource manager has to be able to recruit, train, employee, develop and determining the long term resources

The equal opportunities legislation states that any employee performing the same or similar jobs should receive the same pay as well as the same conditions
The employer must provide a safe and healthy workplace for your workers and contractors. This includes:
• providing and maintaining safe machinery and equipment and safe systems of work such as controlling entry to high risk areas, controlling work pace and frequency and providing systems to prevent falls from height
• implementing arrangements for the safe use, handling, storage and transport of chemicals (such as dangerous goods and other harmful materials)
• maintaining the workplace in a safe condition (such as ensuring fire exits are not blocked, emergency equipment is serviceable, and the worksite is generally

These differences will often cause conflict and result in lower productivity.
• A very common reason for conflict is through poor communication that leads to misunderstandings because facts are interpreted differently. Role overload (too much for one person to do), role ambiguity (employees are not sure of the roles) and role conflict (all members what to do a certain task) may be a result of poor communication.
• Change in the workplace may also result in conflict as people are often resistant to change. Businesses may want to keeps things the same, however, a business that does not adapt to the changes in the market and consumer demands will not be successful.
• If issues were not resolved properly in the past these issues can be a problem in the future. Some managers may hope that conflict will just fade away it could happen for while, but unresolved issues between parties that have to work together will always remain an issue.
• Businesses may have limited resources and therefore employees will compete for these resources. This can be a good thing if it’s healthy competition and employees are being more productive but it can be negative if employees feel there can only be one winner, lowering the morale of employee’s causing anti-productive