A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice

Half-life index Asimpler concept derived from survival rate analysis is the half-life index, which is defined as the time taken ...

a human resource planning exercise requires detailed information on the length of service of leavers, to identify problem areas ...

forthcoming, others will not. It is up to the interviewer to probe skilfully and sensi- tively to establish reasons for dissatis ...

The incidence of labour turnover The labour turnover rate for all employees as revealed by the CIPD 2005 UK survey was 15.7 per ...

the organization. Decisions are then made on what steps should be taken to promote, redeploy, and as necessary provide additiona ...

Flexibility plan The aims of the flexibility plan should be to: ● provide for greater operational flexibility; ● improve the uti ...

It should be remembered that the Part-time Regulations 1999 require that part-timers should not be treated less favourably than ...

Subcontracting Subcontracting enables: ● resources to be concentrated on core business activities; ● employment costs to be redu ...

Overtime arrangements Aflexibility plan can contain proposals to reduce overtime costs by the use of flexible hours, new shift a ...

THE CONTRIBUTION OF HR TO HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING Human resource planning, in the broader meaning of the term, is one of the fun ...

Talent management Talent management consisting of talent planning and development is a relatively new concept, only emerging in ...

● talent management defined; ● the elements of talent management; ● creating a ‘best place to work’; ● attraction policies; ● re ...

human capital requirements and leads to attraction and retention policies and pro- grammes for internal resourcing (identifying ...

discussed in greater detail later in this chapter will be included amongst the steps required to make the organization ‘a great ...

increasing the engagement and motivation of people by providing positive feedback and recognition. This is part of a total rewar ...

CREATING A GREAT PLACE TO WORK Ensuring that the organization is perceived as being ‘a great place to work’ means that it become ...

Creating a great place to work starts with developing the image of the organization so that it is recognized as one that achieve ...

● benchmark the approaches of other organizations (the Sunday Timeslist of the 100 best companies to work for is useful) to obta ...

as their attitudes are right. As Leary-Joyce (2004) says: ‘Recruit for attitude, induct for culture.’ RETENTION STRATEGIES The t ...

Basis of the strategy Aretention strategy takes into account the particular retention issues the organization is facing and sets ...