This 2nd installment in the TLS Continuum How to Guide Series looks at the concept of treating the organization as a system.

1. HR As True a Organizational System
TLS Continuum How To Guide
Based on the work of Dr. Lawrence Miller PhD

2. What is a system?
A system is made up of inputs, a process of some
kind, outputs and the environment in which these
components exist
Page 552 of the Theory of Constraints Handbook edited by James Cox III
and John Schleier, Jr.

3. Where do Inputs come from?
Inputs come from sources within and outside our organizations
To furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking
or requisite
To furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite)
To make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.)
To fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.

4. What is an Input?
Noun
In-put
Something that is put in
The act or process of putting in
Needs a source if the item being inputed
Source: http://dictinary.reference.com/browse/supplier?s=t

5. What is a process?
A systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for
homogenizing milk
A continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite
manner: the process of decay

6. What is an output?
Out-put
The act of turning out: production: the factory’s output of cars; artistic output
The quantity or amount produced, as in a given time: to increase one’s daily
output
The material produced or yield: product

7. Who are our customers?
A person who purchases good or services from another; buyer

8. Do we have an environment?
The aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences;
surroundings; milieu

9. Is HR an organizational System?
Is there sources?
Are there inputs?
Are there processes?
Is there an environment?
Are there customers?

10. Is HR an organizational System?
Are there sources?
Word of mouth
Hiring managers
Stakeholders
Candidates
Management
Human Capital Assets
Internet

11. Is HR an organizational System?
Are there inputs?
Candidates
Job Requirements
Talent Needs
Skills
Referrals
Potential candidates
Training

12. Is HR an organizational System?
Are there processes?
Interviews
On-Boarding
Internal training
Sourcing
Recruitment
External training
Policy implementation

13. Is HR an organizational System?
Is there an environment?
The workplace
The global market for talent
Functions
Professional community

14. Is HR an organizational System?
Are there customers?
Management
Stakeholders
Human Capital Assets
Hiring Managers

15. Is HR an organizational System?
Resounding affirmative view
HR has its sources
HR has its inputs
HR has its processes
HR has its outputs
HR has its end-users
HR has its unique environment

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SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Bloom & Associates, Inc.
PO Box 1233
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