Human resource becomes an important part in a company nowadays. Human capital is the most valuable asset in a firm. Good employees bring lots of creative idea to companies. The way to increase human capital is the big challenge that human resource people face. Also, human resource department has to make a good method to encourage co-workers. Usually HR department do a good job. Nevertheless, sometime HR department meets some difficult problems that they can’t solve it. Companies usually look for outsourcing, for example, an external human resource consultant, to get rid of these kinds of difficult problems. Even through an external consultant solves the difficult part, organizations have to pay much more money for an external consultant and the HR people in the company might start to depend on the “good outsourcing” when they meet problems next time. It also costs lots of time for an external consultant to join a firm and maybe that consultant would not really understand what your company really need. Here is another better method then looking for an external consultant, to make human resource department as an internal consultant.
What is a consultant? The term consultant often raises an image of highly paid business consultants from large firms bring senior managers to help small firms to solve some problems which they can not solve. Also, there are some lofty opinions of consulting:
? A consultant’s job is to focus on the larger system and to help smaller units and individuals take a system perspective (Golembiewski 1978).
? Internal consultants are those who work in one part of an organization to help another part (Meislin 1997).
? The consultant is in the business of helping others ...