The Deputy Managing Director thought that the Director of HR was basically responsible for developing their HR strategy:
We all look at our business strategy and express a view on the people we need, but our HR Director pulls it all together and interprets our ramblings into something coherent.
However, in answering a question on how HR strategies were developed, the Director of Finance admitted that:
We probably have more HR policies than strategies because the strategies are there in a simple sense but not 100 per cent well-articulated – for valid reasons; we are a growing business.
The Director of HR referred to the way in which strategic initiatives were developed:
First the HR people meet and we bounce ideas about and seek ideas. Then if we have a new initiative we put it to the board for discussion.