What are real innovations you have met in the field of HR?

Real innovation comes from the perspective that HR is able to climb up the ladder and acts as a strategic partner. To do so, one has to contribute to a higher human productivity within their organization. Real innovations I have met are real ESS/MSS services within operational HR, actions that lowered travel time & -expenses and activities to maximise 'first time right' delivery to the customers of the organisation by managing the best fit for emplyees and their jobs.

Surveys, polls, transparent policies, career discussions, etc are all innovations which were now a part of nearly all MNC's HR.

PCMM certification focusses on a Maturity model for employees and hence the latest innovation to follow.

I have seen in one company, that the HR in one time of the year were taken to task if they do not meet the expectations of the employees.

The company organised a survey in that time of the year to get a feedback on HR individuals. The person who gets most of the comments and who is not performing as per the employees' expectation were taken actions against.

But this wasn;t a one sided attack. The HR also had a say in the employee's  appraisal. So the balance was maintained. both the employees and the HR did theior job perfectly and the frustation which generally builds up for HR was not there.

HR, like Finance, strategies or OB is well structured for much innovation. Innovation per se happens in the R&D in product development and not in managerial process implementation which are basicaly hard wired. One cannot experiment with this for wasting resources by doing so. HR is basicaly role oriented and fixing the roles of employees and targets and finding ways to achieve pretty much delivers. Then filing of performance sheets and feed back forms etc;.

Co-creation is a strategic process and is not in the relm of HR.

Our culture here is built up around Experimentation and not structural thinking or training whihc is unlike other developed nations where they are structural thinkers. Experimental systems are basicaly gamble per se and consumes lot of resources without generating adequate returns. So experimetnation should be avoided. Experimentation is basicaly intutive and based on impressions. Structural actions are more result oriented and efficient.