At IRI Consultants, we recognize that an organization’s most valuable asset is its people. We help clients fully realize the value of employees with our proprietary model called Human Resource Architecture® (HRA), a comprehensive approach to addressing human performance issues.

Building from the culture and characteristics of a client's organization, we work to provide seamless programs that encompass the spectrum of human performance issues, aligning performance goals with organizational goals.

In most organizations, human resource decisions evolve over time, reflecting the concepts and visions of various leaders and often representing situational rather than strategic decision making. Consequently, in most organizations, human resources are structured by happenstance rather than an orderly, logical and consistent design.

This lack of cohesiveness creates organizational inconsistencies that lead to organizational inertia and conflict.

Our approach recognizes that organizational policies too often work in conflict with strategic objectives and fail to reward desired behavior. For example, employees are often asked to be innovative and creative, yet are reprimanded when they do things outside the strict processes outlined in the company handbook. This has many effects, including sapping employee morale and reducing employees’ efforts to pursue new ideas for fear of disciplinary action.

In regimented organizations, there is little tolerance for risk, little room for innovation and a strict focus on compliance and procedure. Learning organizations, by contrast, accept mistakes as the basis for personal and professional growth and promote a culture tolerant of risk and innovation.

As organizations and companies grow, the infrastructure loses consistency. While the architecture is messy, the structure is serviceable. But the result can be redundancies, overlaps, inconsistencies, and other flaws in the design.

The goal of IRI’s Human Resource Architecture® (HRA) approach is to help organizations develop infrastructures that support their mission, culture and objectives and help leaders manage change.

Through this process, we identify any organizational policies, programs or practices that are misaligned or otherwise drive behaviors counter to the organization’s objectives. We then help develop and implement policies that take into account the various forces that influence employee behavior to build a stronger, more effective organizational architecture.

For more information about Human Resource Architecture® (HRA), contact IRI Consultants at info@iriconsultants.com or by calling (313) 965-0350.

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