Given the scope of the work undertaken by HR Departments it would be easy for things to be missed or forgotten about and that’s where the idea of a HR Audit comes in.

An audit is a tool that HR Professionals can use to objectively examine and evaluate all HR activities and, like a financial audit, when done correctly it will highlight areas of good practice within the HR department as well as those that require improvement before a problem arises.

There are different ways of conducting an HR Audit but I prefer to use a checklist of questions relating to different areas of HR’s work. To get answers to these questions requires the HR Professional to analyse of figures