Lack of clarity about what HR’s role actually is or the absence of a consistent business strategy within which HR can work.
HR is marginalised from real decision making (‘All this rubbish about strategy is simple self delusion...personnel people are implementers’), though this can often be down to their own behaviour(‘I have spent eight years in the Boardroom and personnel listens’.)
The impact of the HRBP may vary. Recent research (Alejandro Sioli and Arthur Yeung)shows that the
role has greater impact when the organisation is changing than when it’s stable
Line managers, due to their own views and experience, may not accept HR as a business partner, in some
cases feeling they know more than HR does about managing people.