The Business Case for an Employee Onboarding System
Bringing a new employee on board is often an expensive and time consuming process. Leaders and HR spend hours dedicated to processing paperwork, organising equipment and system access, and training new staff that might not even stick…
Outsourcing Payroll
Aided by the success of Timothy Ferriss’s book, The 4-Hour Workweek, and fueled by limited internal resources and an abundance of service providers, we have become a nation of outsourcers. It’s not hard to understand the attraction. Who…
THE REAL PRICE OF A WRONG HIRING
Hiring the right candidate for a job is a critical decision for any organization. However, the consequences of a wrong hire can be far-reaching and costly, impacting various aspects of a company's operations, culture, and bottom line. The…
Global Human Capital Management Can HR Drive Agile, Efficient and Reliable Business Transformation?
When an HR department is thriving, HR professionals are dedicating at least half their time to strategic planning, keeping the company competitive and compliant, and maintaining an aligned, engaged, and highly skilled workforce.
Managing Compliance and Mitigating Future Risk
While the language of business is becoming more standardised, one thing remains as culturally complex as ever: employment law. Organisations must know the risk and compliance issues they face in every jurisdiction they do business – and…
Digitalizing HR: Connecting the workforce
Capgemini Consulting publishes its global HR Barometer report to investigate the trends and challenges facing today’s HR executives and their teams. The findings in this year’s report suggest that HR organizations are slowly beginning to…
HR Outsourcing: Frameworks, Guidelines and Tips
Outsourcing remains an important topic for many companies. Cost savings are still one of the primary motives for contemplating outsourcing, but strategic considerations are also playing an increasingly important role in decision-making…
The main challenges of cultural change
Changing an organization’s culture is one of the most difficult leadership challenges. That’s because an organization’s culture comprises an interlocking set of goals, roles, processes, values, communication practices, attitudes, and…
Staff Retention
As the world speeds up, so people are moving jobs faster than ever. But it needn’t be that way, and there are things you can do today to help your key staff want to stay with you.
The retention problem is biggest in the US, where…
Responding to the human side of crises in the workplace
Recent events remind us that scary, dangerous, and stressful situations can happen anywhere: on the street corner, at the grocery store, and—far too frequently—in the workplace. Crises may occur in our own locale or in neighbourhoods and…