Functional
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Mid Market HRO
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HRO is well established as a trend for the next several years, and it is more than reasonable that the mid market will begin adopting this fairly expensive service…
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Russ Fradin: The New CEO at Hewitt Associates
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Last week I promised to write about measuring risk related to group benefit plans and techniques on evidence based cost avoidance (when I put it that way, it sounds…
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ADP Aquires Employease
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OK, as ths Employease press release says, they only agreed to do so, but it’s a great move assuming it gets past all the regulatory stuff. ((Got this through…
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HR Function Commoditization – The Future of HR
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57 years ago ADP commoditized payroll. You have 100 earnings codes, a specific set of parameters each code can have, and if you want to go outside those parameters,…
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TCO in the Context of Risk
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Many regular readers of SystematicHR know that I conducted a Total Cost of Ownership study to determine the cost of benefits administration. The results were released last December. Double…
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Stopping the Talent Drain
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This site has many recurring themes, but here are 2 of the most popular: There’s a talent drain and it’s only getting worse. Compensation is no way to retain…
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The True Costs of Unionization
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In an attempt to be apolitical (which is truly difficult for me), I was reading a New York Times article about United mechanics entering into a training program after…
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Relationship Management – Measuring Satisfaction
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How do you know when an outsourcing initiative has been successful? At what point can you sit back, look at all that has been done and actually congratulate yourselves…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
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I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the…
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TCO and the Line Manager
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In the jobs I had before I started my own business, I always felt an important part of my responsibility was to develop the people who reported to me….
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Peter Drucker on the Manager’s Job
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What is the manager’s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite – and it is….
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 3
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What to do now? Some organizations are great at redefining roles. Others are terrible. Honestly, it’s part of the change management process, but again, some are great at change…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 2
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Coping with the loss of friends and associates (the guilty survivor) One of the worst things for both management and the retained organization is deciding and coping with the…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 1
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Who are you? With the recent glut of HRO and other outsourcing deals, it’s obvious that some employees are going to be invited to stick around, and others will…
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How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save?
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I set this article aside some time ago with the intention of commenting on it at some point. Now is as good a time as any. The story, “Survey:…
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To Engage Employees, Let Them Go
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The Edelmann blog highlights a New York Times article analyzing the affect of vacation time (or lack of) on employee engagement and turnover within the younger generation of workers…
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Shake up at Hewitt
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The rumors have been around in the market for some time now, but this past week it showed up in print: What does surprise Pramuk and other experts, however,…
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HRO IT Platforms
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HRO Today has an article out there descrbing their take on the technology platform evolution within the HRO space. They pay particular interest to Oracle and SAP which is…
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HRO Vendor Positioning (Scorecard)
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Accenture: Accenture is like ExcellerateHRO and Hewitt. With a great HR consulting group and an ability to execute the technology, Accenture was in the market early enough to capture…
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HRO Trends
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So what’s going on in HRO these days? Here’s a summary of a few things I’m thinking about. Global HRO – Global HRO has existed for a while, but…