HR Audit
HR audit:
UNDERSTAND YOUR HR RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF YOUR HR PRACTICES
An HR Audit provides a comprehensive review of your organization’s current HR practices, policies, processes, and documentation. Tenfold HR Solutions takes a closer look at how your HR function is operating to identify strengths, potential gaps, compliance concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
Our HR professionals assess key areas of your people practices and compare them against applicable employment requirements and HR best practices. The result is a clear understanding of what is working, where your organization may be exposed to risk, and where improvements can strengthen your HR foundation.
What is an HR Audit?
An HR Audit takes a deeper look at the key areas that make up your organization’s HR function. Our review helps identify what is working well, where there may be gaps or risks, and where improvements could strengthen your HR practices.
Our HR Audit is designed to:
- Review HR policies, procedures, and documentation
- Assess practices against applicable employment requirements
- Identify potential HR risks and compliance gaps
- Review the consistency and effectiveness of current HR processes
- Identify opportunities to strengthen employee and manager practices
Tenfold HR Solutions brings an experienced, outside perspective to your HR environment, providi
Why Conduct an HR Audit
An HR Audit provides valuable insight into your current HR environment and helps identify opportunities to strengthen your people practices, processes, and compliance.
Key benefits include:
- Risk Mitigation: Identify potential compliance gaps, outdated practices, and areas of HR risk before they become larger issues.
- Operational Efficiency: Identify opportunities to improve HR processes, create greater consistency, and support more effective day to day operations.
- Fresh Perspective: Gain an experienced, external perspective that can uncover gaps or opportunities that may be difficult to see internally, particularly following growth, organizational change, or turnover within HR.
Tenfold HR Solutions provides practical findings and recommendations to help you prioritize improvements, strengthen HR compliance, and make informed decisions about your organization’s HR needs.
Who is Involved?
A successful HR Audit is a collaborative process between Tenfold HR Solutions and key members of your organization.
- Our Team: A dedicated Tenfold HR professional leads the audit, bringing an experienced and objective perspective to the review.
- Your Team: Typically, one or two key contacts from your organization provide information, documentation, and insight into your current HR practices and processes.
Throughout the audit, we work closely with your team through scheduled meetings and information gathering. Your team’s participation helps us develop a thorough understanding of your HR environment and provide meaningful, practical recommendations customized to your organization.
Scope of Review
n HR Audit takes a comprehensive look across the key areas of your organization’s HR function. While the scope is customized based on your organization, operations, and current HR environment, our review considers a broad range of people practices, processes, policies, and documentation.
The following areas may be included as part of the HR Audit review:
Payroll, Compensation & Benefits
- Payroll systems and HR compliance
- Compensation structure & benefits
- Salary classifications, bonuses, KPIs
- Overtime, vacation policies, and retirement planning
Recruitment & Onboarding
- Recruitment process and job postings
- Interview guides, background checks
- Onboarding effectiveness
Workforce Planning & Development
- Training programs, succession planning
- Leadership development, performance reviews
- Career path development, exit interviews, offboarding
Risk Management
- Business continuity, safety programs
- Compliance with privacy legislation and record management
- Workplace safety and human rights policies
Employee Relations
- Employee communication practices
- Organizational charts, job descriptions
- Employee engagement surveys and meetings
Policies & Procedures
- Employee Handbook reviews
- Code of conduct, workplace respect policies
- Cybersecurity, vacation/leave management
Ultimately, the scope of each HR Audit is customized to your organization’s needs, operations, and HR environment. Headquartered in Edmonton, Tenfold HR Solutions supports organizations throughout Alberta and across Western Canada, providing practical HR expertise to help strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and improve HR practices.
HR Audit Services:
Comprehensive Risk Management & HR Solutions
Timeline
The typical timeline for an HR audit ranges from 4 to 10 weeks, depending on the size of the organization and the volume of information reviewed. Therefore, active participation from the client’s designated resources is crucial for a smooth and efficient audit process.
Special Considerations
In particular, this HR audit service is designed for individual entities. For conglomerates or entities with multiple businesses under one umbrella, separate audits for each business unit may be necessary to ensure thoroughness and relevance.
The HR Audit Process – Project Phases
Our HR Audit follows a structured process to provide a comprehensive review of your organization’s HR environment. While each audit is customized to your organization, the process generally includes five key phases:
- Initial Assessment: We begin by understanding your organization, operations, current HR environment, and priorities to establish the scope of the audit and gather the information needed for our review.
- HR and Compliance Review: Our auditor reviews key areas of your HR function, including policies and procedures, payroll, compensation and benefits, recruitment and onboarding, workforce planning and development, risk management, and employee relations. Applicable employment requirements and compliance practices are considered throughout the review.
- Internal Department Meetings: As we review each area, we connect with the appropriate people within your organization to understand current processes, practices, systems, and documentation. These conversations provide important context and help ensure our findings reflect how your organization operates.
- Analysis and Recommendations: Our auditor brings the information and findings together to identify strengths, potential gaps and risks, opportunities for improvement, and practical recommendations customized to your organization.
- Results and Interactive Delivery: You receive a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation outlining the audit findings, recommendations, and prioritized next steps. Your Tenfold HR auditor delivers the results through an interactive presentation with your team, providing context, answering questions, and helping you understand where to focus moving forward.
Cultural Assessment (Optional Add-On)
For organizations looking for deeper insight into their workplace culture and employee experience, Tenfold HR Solutions offers a Cultural Assessment as an optional addition to the HR Audit.
Building on what we learn through the audit, we customize the assessment to explore areas that may benefit from a deeper understanding. Through confidential employee interviews and customized survey questions, we gather perspectives from across the organization to better understand employee experiences, workplace culture, communication, engagement, and how HR practices are experienced in day to day operations.
This additional layer of assessment can help uncover themes, concerns, and opportunities that may not be visible through policies, processes, and documentation alone. Our questions and approach are customized to your organization and the specific areas you want to better understand.
The findings provide leadership with additional insight into the employee experience and practical opportunities to strengthen culture, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.
Supporting Implementation of HR Audit Recommendations
At Tenfold HR Solutions, an HR Audit doesn’t have to end with recommendations. The findings can become a practical guide for strengthening your HR function, identifying immediate priorities, quick wins, and longer-term opportunities for improvement.
You can choose to implement the recommendations internally, or our team can work alongside yours to help get the work done. Through our Managed HR Services, we provide access to the HR expertise and support needed to turn your audit recommendations into action.
Our flexible support options include:
- As-Needed HR Support: Access HR expertise as priorities and projects arise.
- Fixed Monthly HR Support: Dedicated monthly support to consistently work through priorities and provide ongoing HR guidance.
For many organizations, the HR Audit becomes the starting point for their work with Tenfold, helping us build a customized HR work plan based on what your organization needs most.
Explore our Managed HR Services to see how Tenfold can help you move from recommendations to results.
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