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Turn Top HR Worries into Strategic Assets
By Art | April 20, 2006
The looming talent shortage requires new workforce management strategies.
- Managing talent
Rethink productivity approaches – move strategy into project and team models of efficiency. Hire better using assessments. - Rising health care costs
Providing cost-effective health care will help you be competitive as well as keep talent. - Linking pay to performance
Focus on the development of balanced and efficient teams, make sure everyone understands where the fit into the big picture, reward performance. - Employee demands for flexible work schedules
Working where and when they want to is possible with a project-based approach. - Telecommuting
More and more in demand for Gen X and younger. Optimize communication networks to make it possible. - Growing demand for more time off
Time allowed to “recharge the batteries” is a powerful incentive, and can be tied to productivity. - Lower HR staff-to-employee ratios
Fewer staff will have more to handle, so strategize now to streamline procedures, and use validated multi-use tools for the life cycle of the employee. - Workplace privacy issues
Transparency, ethics, and open discussion will be assets. Collaborate on policies to protect company interests while also limiting invasions of employee privacy. - Employee demand for customized employment relationships
Start development of new niche worker arrangements.
(top worries based on the SHRM “Workplace Forecast: A Strategic Outlook.”)
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