The HR Audit Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Diagnosing, Fixing, and Future-Proofing Your People Function

By Mike Pritula

Your HR function is flying blind. Here's how to fix it.

Most HR departments are busy - but busy doing what? If your CEO asked you tomorrow what return the company is getting on its HR investment, could you answer with specifics?

Mike Pritula has spent 20+ years building and fixing HR functions at companies from 50-person startups to 5,000-person enterprises - including Wargaming, Preply (pre-unicorn to unicorn), and iDeals. He's conducted dozens of HR audits across gaming, SaaS, edtech, media, banking, and manufacturing. This book is everything he's learned, distilled into a step-by-step system you can implement immediately.

THE HR AUDIT PLAYBOOK gives you:

A complete 18-chapter framework covering every dimension of HR - from strategy and recruitment to compensation, engagement, analytics, and compliance

A proprietary scoring methodology that produces a single HR Efficiency Index - one number that tells leadership exactly where your function stands

Practical tools for every stage: diagnostic checklists, interview guides, scoring templates, metrics dashboards, report frameworks, and ROI calculators

Real stories from real audits - what went wrong, what worked, and what the numbers actually looked like

A chapter on AI-powered auditing - how to use Claude and ChatGPT to cut your audit time by 45%

30+ downloadable templates and tools included free for all readers

This isn't an academic textbook. There's no theory without application, no framework without a template, and no recommendation without a real-world example behind it. Every chapter opens with a practitioner story and closes with tools you can use the same day.

Whether you're an HR Director running your first audit, an HRBP building the case for change, a startup founder setting up HR from scratch, or a consultant looking for a proven methodology - this book gives you the system.

"I spend $12 million a year on HR and I have no idea what I'm getting for it." - That's what a CEO told Mike before his first audit. By the end, the answer was clear. This book will make it clear for you too.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Pritula holds PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and runs Mike Pritula Academy - the leading HR education platform with 160+ courses and 140,000+ students across 50 countries. He is the author of AI in HR and The Resume That Gets You Hired.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVXSRJ4H
• ISBN13: 9798254683322
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"