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Deveen Hunter

About Deveen Hunter

Deveen Hunter M.Sc., CAPM, CHRL is a human resource practitioner and entrepreneur with over 8 years of global human resource success. She is the founder and lead consultant at Select Business Solutions, a boutique consulting firm that is focused on assisting clients evolve the ways in which they create value for stakeholders by leveraging technology, analytics, processes and human capital. With a background in sociology and psychology she is an ardent researcher, continuously searching for insight into human behaviour at the organisational level. When she is not focused on innovating the Human Resource discipline and growing her firm, she is focused on the most fascinating person in her world, her nine-year-old daughter. Deveen is currently working on research to develop a human resource model focused on addressing the unique challenges of recruitment in the Canadian context.

By Deveen Hunter | 3 Minutes Read October 16, 2017

A new spin on the HR department design

Like any other element of an organisation, the HR department must be structured in a way that allows it to deliver value to a business. This article explains why.

HR departmentThere is a saying that when you point one finger in criticism, there are four fingers pointing back at you. This adage came to my mind recently as I read an article published in a McKinsey quarterly. The article was focused on the way in which HR departments are organised or structured. It got me thinking that maybe businesses might be best served if organisational re-engineering started with an examination of the structure of the HR organisation itself.

Like any other element of an organisation, the HR department must be structured in a way that allows it to deliver value to a business. The article in McKinsey, referred to a new trend in highly developed HR organisations of establishing centers of … Continue reading “A new spin on the HR department design”

Article by Deveen Hunter / Employee Relations / center of excellence, employment law, HR Department, HR department design, HR organizational design, Human Resources

By Deveen Hunter | 4 Minutes Read September 11, 2017

How to create an organizational culture

In our fast paced and ever changing world it is also important to avoid being locked into a single culture in a manner that does not allow for change. The best culture is the best culture at this time, but that doesn’t mean it will be the best culture tomorrow.

Article by Deveen Hunter / Employee Relations / culture, employment law, organizational culture, policies

By Deveen Hunter | 3 Minutes Read August 31, 2017

The challenge of organizational culture

Culture has become a very contentious political issue in the past few weeks. However, discussions about culture have a very long history and always evoke very strong responses. This is because culture, “the way we do things”, is what distinguishes one group of people from the next.

Article by Deveen Hunter / Employee Relations / culture, employee diversity, employment law, external culture, internal systems and structures, organizational culture

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