An HR SOP can document activity inside the HR function. It can describe how a role is raised, how a candidate is processed, when onboarding happens, how reviews are completed, how grievances are handled, and how exits are managed. What it cannot do is carry the full anatomy of organizational alignment across the enterprise. 1. The false comfort of people-process discipline HR SOPs look reassuring on paper. They define hiring steps, onboarding sequences, appraisal cycles, grie
