HR Audits 2025: Update on Strategic Planning, Application Activities, and Operational Impact

An HR audit helps answer hard questions: Is your human capital supporting business goals, and are your employment practices creating risk and liability? This 90-minute HR audit training covers how to develop and use HR audits for risk management and due diligence.

You'll look at current trends in HR auditing, senior management's audit goals, the critical components of an HR audit, and the economic, political, regulatory and social factors that shape audit scope.

The session also reviews HR auditing tools and how to build an HR audit scorecard, using both quantitative and qualitative measures to evaluate human capital outcomes.

• Describe current trends in HR auditing
• Align HR audits with senior management's goals
• Identify the critical components of an HR audit
• Explain the external factors that affect HR audit scope
• Use HR auditing tools to assess risk and compliance
• Build an HR audit scorecard

• Current trends in HR auditing
• Senior management's HR auditing goals and issues
• Critical components of an HR audit
• Economic, political, regulatory and social factors affecting HR audits
• Strategic and tactical issues, risk identification and compliance assessment
• Quantitative and qualitative methods for measuring risk
• Using HR auditing tools
• Developing an HR audit scorecard

HR risks now go beyond fines and penalties. They can affect valuation, credit rating, reputation and employment brand. Agencies such as the EEOC, OFCCP, U.S. DOL and ICE treat self-assessments and audits as a best practice, and organizations may be judged on the issues they choose to ignore.

This session suits HR professionals, CFOs, internal and external auditors, CPAs, risk managers and business owners in any industry.

• All industries and organizations
• HR professionals
• CFOs
• Internal and external auditors
• Business owners 
• CPAs
• Risk managers

Ronald L. Adler, president of Laurdan Associates Inc. has 42 years of HR consulting experience and has served as a consulting expert on work force, workplace, and HR management issues for The Wall Street Journal, HRMagazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. Mr. Adler's research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the EEOC, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), insurers, and international organizations.

Mr. Adler is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management, employment practices, and UI issues. Mr. Adler is the author and editor of the Employment-Labor Law Audit (ELLA), the internationally recognized HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment process.

Mr. Adler is an adjunct professor at Villanova University where teaches a graduate level course in HR Auditing. Mr. Adler is also a certified instructor for The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society on employment practices liability and HR auditing issues and has conducted continuing education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on HR management and HR auditing topics. Additionally Mr. Adler has served as an adjunct instructor at the Baltimore City Community College on workplace diversity and sexual harassment.

Mr. Adler is an appointee to State of Maryland's Unemployment Insurance (UI) Oversight Committee and previously served as an appointee to the State's UI Funding Task Force, the UI Advisory Committee, and the state's Workforce Training Initiative. Mr. Adler has served as a moderator at the State of Maryland's Annual Human Relations Conference and at the state's Annual Small Business Conference.