Data & Metrics
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Unbundling HR
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Karen Beaman over at Jeitosa recently wrote about the unbundling of HCM systems that we’ve been seeing for many years now. She is exactly right, that often times the…
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What is a portal?
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We’ve been in love with self service, direct access, portals, and everything else that allows a user to interact with HR on her own. We have generically called self…
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Addicting HR
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Can you make your managers addicted to HR? Can you make them care about processes and policies and procedures? Do they really care about the employee engagement score? Personally,…
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Keeping Managers Accountable for Turnover
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— You must have a manager training program — You must have education on employee engagement — Metric on first year employee turnover, how much of hires were an…
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Global HRMS Cultural Issues
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Everyone wants global data. They want it in a global HRMS, or in a data warehouse. They want shared accessible data in communized practices and processes. They want the…
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Data Hubs versus Business Intelligence
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I keep seeing organizations that try to use their data warehouse platforms as data hubs. While on the surface this might seem like a good idea, it really might…
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Core HR in a Point Solution World
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Perhaps the statement that we now live in a “point solution world” for HR is a bit bold. Certainly in large and medium sized organizations, ERP deployments are still…
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Analytics and Dubious Correlations
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Being an Asian who suffers from what I call “red face syndrome” (I also call it “beet red” or “lobster red”) I was quite interested when the following article…
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Global Data Protection – Model Contracts
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As long as we talked about Safe Harbor in the last entry, we might as well talk about model contracts. Honestly, I don’t like this one as much as…
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Global Data Protection
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As I continue to work with global organizations, I’m a bit surprised to see a continued effort around obtaining employee consent for the export of data outside the home…
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Compliance Reporting
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Is there anything worth while about compliance reporting? We do EEO1s, OFCCP, VETS, and do we get anything good out of it? Lets face it, while there might be…
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HR Metrics: Dismissal rate
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So the organization or parts of it are dismissing too many people. You think to yourself, “why is my recruiting so bad that I get crap people?” I suppose…
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HR Metrics: Resignation rate
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I would have to think that resignation rates are pretty low right now. When companies are laying off employees and security and new jobs are hard to come by,…
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HR Metrics: Turnover Rate
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Honestly, I could really care less about turnover rate the way most organizations calculate it. Sure, it informs me a little bit regarding the employer brand, and perhaps about…
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HR Metrics: Contractor fill rates
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So you probably have a specific number of independent contractors, consultants and agency employees within your organization. You also probably have not really given much thought around what percentage…
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HR Metrics: External recruitment rate
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Feb 4 The external recruitment rate is important because it informs of the organization’s ability to provide growth opportunities for employees and alternatively to infuse new ideas from outside…
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HR Metrics: Competency fill rates
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By now, many of our organizations have competency assignments for each candidate and employee within the organization. Along with those competency assignments you probably have skill levels for each…
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HR Metrics: Quality of Hire
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All too often, we talk about the quality of hire measured by a new employee’s first performance review. We like to correlate this metric back to the source of…
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HR Metrics: Offer Accept Rate
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Last time I looked for a job, I had three offers. Each of these offers were with very similar organizations, with very similar offer packages, and with exactly the…
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Large Investments in Technology
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Perhaps I’m just a nerd, but I’ve been following the developments of the Hadron Collider for a while now. In terms of physics, there have been many theories abounding,…