A Towers Watson survey designed to test the alignment of interests and collaboration between finance and HR departments may have identified a hopeful trend: the two departments are working more collaboratively than in the past.
"Driving Performance through HR and Finance Collaboration" analyzed the responses from 122 HR executives and 218 finance executives at corporations ranging in size from 1,000 to more than 25,000 employees.
The survey, said Towers Watson's Emmett Seaborn, a senior consultant, was developed "to validate a hypothesis based on experience: that the two functions are working less independently than in the past. We anticipated we might see far lower levels of agreement or far greater gaps in opinion between the two groups. The fact that we got the response levels we did, combined with our real-world experience, is what shapes our positive point of view."
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
