Entrevista a Maite Sáenz en el periódico suizo HR Today

Redacción ORH3 septiembre 20155min

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Maite Sáenz: «In Spain HR needs to invest in new skills»

1. What are current trends in HR in your country?

Maite: We are living a very interesting moment in Spanish HR’areas because they are changing radically their value propposition to companies and even their role as a partner of business. They are focused in the big trends:

  • Engagement: The recent past years have been very difficult for organizations and proffessionals, that have been forced to aplicate hard adjustment measures like downsizing, fall of wages, etc. Doing more with less has been the rule for a long time and now there is a lack of commitment of employees with their companies. HR is working hard building a new employers brand, triying to demonstrate that what company says is what company does. In this way, they are facing the new stage of social media in wich employer branding has new rules too: transparency, honesty, values…
  • Return of investment in HR policies to business, kpi’s and indicators: This is the big challenge for HR managers. They have spent too much time speaking about talent, development, team leadership and soft management concepts but without an integrate vision of all of them. Now they have to defend the investment in board’s directors one by one, demonstrating why, for what, how and specially how much it will return to organizations. Speaking the business language is a must for HR roles.
  • Total compensation as a big part of the employee value proposition: Employer branding is more than the pretty face of companies or the way it is seen by markets, candidates or consumers; is also related to the way employees feel working in it and how they are rewarded with a set of experiences but not only salary.

2. What are the long-term challenges of HR in your country?

Maite: I think I’ve answered in question below but it shoud be interesting to add the big challenge of HR managers: their own capabilities. They need to invest in new competencies, more digital, more confident about their value position.

3. Where does HR in your country have room for improvement and why?

Maite: First at all HR has to be more strategic and that means to be able to quantify what they do. Possibly technology is a big opportunity to HR for reach a position similar to other roles in companies: marketing, finance, etc. Big Data could give a way to transform data into information to take decissions.

4. If you are familiar with Switzerland: What are the differences in HR between Switzerland and your country?

Maite: Unfortunately I don’t know so much about HR world in your country.

5. What needs HR to keep in mind when managing employees? What is important for employees in your country (money, work life balance, home office, status, e.g.)?

Maite: What the Spanish employees are asking for is work life balance and flexibility, development opportunities, a good work environment and of course, reasons to trust in their companies.

6. What kind of leadership do employees in your country look for?

Maite: Leadership has to be honest, transparent, ethical and generous. Employees need to recover confidence in leaders and in what they can do for them. It’s time to do what it says it will do. Definitly. they seek leaders from who they can learn.


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