Human Resource Management: 3 Effective Ways to Streamlining Business Workflow

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Human Resource Management 3 Effective Ways to
Streamlining Business Workflow
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Todays work environment means that companies and
organisations must continually be looking to
improve the way that they do their business and
provide their services to not only survive the
competition and also to meet changing client
needs and expectations. Key to this is the
planning and actions of the Human Resources
functions. From interviewing and hiring
employees to managing them effectively, HR has a
fundamental role to play in working with the
business to help to identify the implications for
people management of changes such as streamlining
business workflow, restructuring and ensuring
smooth operations.s streamlining business
workflow, restructuring and ensuring smooth
operations
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As well as this external focus outside the HR
team, there is also an ongoing need to look at
how the internal processes and business service
delivery model operates and how it can be
improved over time. We suggest that there are a
couple of simple points of focus that HR areas
can use to improve their internal business
processes and service delivery to the business
operations.
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Get rid of paperwork move to on line service
delivery
Long gone are the days when paper pushing was an
unavoidable task for employees seeking
information or approvals for entitlements or
allowances (like leave, allowances etc.) and the
HR team was buried under paper based forms that
required review, data entry, follow up for
clarification and the inevitable filing (and
sometimes retrieval for review or correction).
Today, all HR Management systems provide for a
wide range of services and processes to be done
once, processed in real time and recorded against
employee entitlements as they occur. Not only do
these systems replace the hectic paperwork in
office but it also reduces a significant amount
of time and labour work involved in manual record
keeping and records management over time.
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Build a reporting framework that looks at things
that matter to the business

• Increasing on line data entry and management also
  increases the potential to automate HR reporting.
  However, the automation doesnt mean much if the
  reporting doesnt focus on the things that mean
  something to the current and future operations of
  the business.
• Key reference points when considering the things
  that matter for the business that need to be in
  the HR reporting framework include
• Long term performance objectives usually
  contained in the Corporate Plan

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• Annual performance objectives usually contained
  in the yearly Business Plan
• Statutory reporting requirements these are the
  known reporting areas that external agencies
  require to be provided at the end of each year
  like age and gender profiles, and in the case of
  the APS, established Annual Report data and
  related reporting requirements (like Remuneration
  Surveys and State if the Service data)
• Known priority areas for attention each
  organisation will have specific HR priority areas
  that need regular attention due to their impact
  on performance or costs.

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• These areas might include
• Workers compensation
• Gender equity ratios
• Indigenous recruitment
• Staff turnover rates
• Staff retention performance over time in key
  roles

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HR reporting must focus on the compliance
requirements but should also focus on telling the
key decision makers how well the people
components of the organisation are performing, to
provide forecasts of outcomes against targets
that enable early intervention to improve
outcomes and facilitate the achievement of the
annual and longer term business objectives of the
organisation.
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HBA Consulting has

• Proven expertise in reviewing and improving HR
  planning and reporting frameworks.
• Key partnerships with statisticians and market
  research companies that enable us to work with
  our clients to identify data requirements,
  establish the best way to extract and present
  data and turn it into information and meaningful
  analysis.

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