Audit of HR results

The real test of HR policies and programmes lies in the results achieved. Comprehensive policy statements and elaborate procedural manuals are useless unless they yield good results. In the audit of results, the HR audit may calculate ratios and percentages from personnel statistics. Such measurement will reveal useful trends in manpower utilisation.
HR audit is a comparatively new area of audit . Therefore, the HR auditor has no body of laws, regulations and standard practices to guide him. The HR auditor has to depend upon his own judgement and records available within the organization. Moreover, HR audit may become a fault-finding exercise. For example, whereever certain deficiencies are detected, the management and workers may start blaming each other. To avoid such situations, a forward looking approach is required.