All organisations have one resource common which is human resource and the most critical one. However, many a time this resource gets ignored resulting in drop in productivity and efficiency. Improving productivity is one of the most critical objectives in any business.To plug the gap and improve on productivity, organisations are investing in making human resources more efficient. The companies which has well designed program are able to realise better involvement from self-motivated employees resulting in to healthy bottom line. The HR can not only help in motivating employees for enhanced productivity and efficiency but can also help setting trend for attracting best talent,which is,by far,one of the most important resource a company can have. Hence the companies looking for enhanced productive should have better HR programs.

HR plays important role in handling the life cycle of employee in the organisation. The role entails from recruitment, induction, training, evaluation, appraisal, motivation etc, HR can contribute to the organisation by getting enhanced employees' productivity and company efficiency throughout their careers with the organization.

While HR is involved in every aspect of the employee’s and organisation growth, they also deal with lot of useful data points, which can provide more critical insight about the factors that impact morale and longevity that impact job effectiveness, can be put to work to help leaders improve performance and team engagement.

Some of the areas/factor which HR can play around for enhancing the productivity:-

Look for best talent:-
Performance can be enhanced with right training and induction but can be a notch above normal performance if at very beginning HR gets best talent for the job. It is important to look for self motivated talent

as they keep the consistency even when the chips are down. HR can seek help of various on-line/off-line mechanisms to look for right talent. Having right recruitment program helps in getting best talent, exploring programs like hackathon for tech profile or referrals or even data driven online recruitment platforms can help shortlisting and recruiting right talent.

On recruitment the new employees can be taken thru well defined induction and training program if required.

Reward program
Organisation need to recognise talent and reward them suitably. This not only help in retaining talent but also help motivating employees to give their best to meet organisation objective and goals. HR department need to play in important role in devising the reward program interviewing around each department and criticality of the function. The reward program should be devised with an objective to motivate employees in achieving organisation goal.

Flexibility
Many a time organisations loses good talent because of policy on reporting on the job and work timing. Organisations need to understand about work-life balance, an employee who is free from his social and family obligation would be more productive then one who is mentally caught in the web of family responsibility. It is important to have disciplined environment, however what the fun of having policy which results in drop in productivity. The organisation should be more concerned about completion of the job and in right way then filling the attendance muster. Having flexi time always helps in balancing work-life balance.

HR modules and software
Now day’s lot of HR tools are available which not only help in managing life cycle of employee but also generate lot of data which could be very useful in enhancing the productivity and efficiency in meeting organisation goals. The data can help management in getting insight about the performance and aligning to organisation goals.

Hygiene factors
There is no reason to doubt any body’s productivity, how ever there are some soft factors mostly referred as hygiene factors which if maintained then can certainly help in adding to the better productivity:-

1) Right lighting system for better illumination
2) Air conditioning and ventilation for healthy environment
3) Better seating arrangement considering ergonomically
4) Wellness facility
5) Cafeteria with right mix of offerings
6) Having right collaborative environment
7) Policies around softer aspects impacting employees
8) Medical facility

HR department is a powerful and important department within the organization and when used effectively, they can drive a significant increase in productivity. With the right direction and mission, HR can turn around low productivity and efficiency with motivated employees.