Revue du Journal arabe des affaires et de la gestion

HR Audit: Auditing HR Practices of Public and Private Companies

Abstract

Jothilakshmi M

The people in an organization are the prime sources have to be effectively allocated and engaged in various affairs of business. Many Indian companies are handling innovative practices to motivate and retain their talented pool. It has to be assured by a systematic procedure which is called HR audit that is deliberate and detailed analysis of HR standards. This paper mainly emphasizes the HR practices of public and private companies and their styles of handling their employees and their set of norms, rules of regulations towards people. Organizations belong to private and public industries are differed based on their capabilities and their freedom to operate. This study aims to audit the HR practices of one public and private company. Instead of criticism auditing the HR practices of those is the main motive of the study. BSNL a government owned company and Reliance communication have taken for this study. Both companies are represented public and private respectively. Through this study, we could easily and visibly understand the framework made by both sectors towards their people. The difficulties and problems are common to them but in different extent. This paper is not one to compare each, reveal and audit the public and private company’s strengths and weaknesses towards their employees.