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HRIS Implementation Hours – Investment Worth Embracing
June 2011
Rather than viewing the HRIS implementation as a spectre, focus on the opportunity to implement a solution that will produce efficiencies, ensure data integrity and facilitate the alignment of HR with corporate objectives. Now that's something worth embracing! |
Technology Matters: What you need to know when selecting an HR or Payroll Solution
May 2011
When selecting an HR or Payroll Solution, features and outcomes are always top of mind. But what about the technology itself? When looking for a new solution there are two key technology areas to consider; a) the technology that the vendor is employing and b) the options available for accessing or deploying the software. |
Ready, Set, Implement your HRIS - an Emotional (yet controlled) Journey
March 2011
It is a natural reaction to feel overwhelmed by the upcoming challenge of the implementation. But take a deep breath…you may be more ready than you think! An implementation doesn't need to be the rollercoaster ride that you are anticipating. |
Sharing your HRIS Data: The Benefits and Challenges
February 2011
A show of hands … who likes to share? In terms of an HRIS, sharing data is usually a given, and there are measures that can be taken to facilitate this - allowing for significant benefits to the organization, while avoiding the need for group therapy data-sharing sessions! |
Watching for Employee Burn-out: Clues in your HRIS
December 2010
For employees who have survived a recent downsizing and inherited the work and deadlines of past co-workers, life can be a veritable pressure-cooker. You may be able to set up and use your HRIS for early detection of employee burnout, which may allow you to avoid costs to the organization. |
HRIS & Payroll: Joined at the Hip?
November 2010
This question is both philosophical and practical. Your response will likely depend on how integrated you consider your data and processes to be. More importantly, how integrated do you want them to be? |
Top 10 Success Factors for Implementing a Payroll System
October 2010
The decision has been finalized and you are excited about your new payroll solution! Now your attention focuses on how to best approach the implementation. Taking the following measures can greatly increase your chances of success. |
Top 10 Success Factors for Implementing an HRIS
September 2010
Are you preparing to embark on an HRIS implementation? Get your ducks in a row for the effort ahead, and make the implementation as smooth as possible. Taking the following measures can greatly increase your chances of success. |
Testing Your HRIS: Donning the Audit Hat
July 2010
Testing provides you with assurance that the information you get from your HRIS will be reliable and accurate. To achieve a thorough level of testing to the extent that that assurance will be attained requires that you think like an auditor. |
Measuring Recruiting Effectiveness: Key Advantage of an Integrated HRIS
June 2010
Recruiting is costly. There is just no way to say it delicately. Proactive on-boarding can help to avoid this situation, and it actually begins in the recruiting cycle. |
HRIS + Reporting = Value
May 2010
You want to get the most from your investment in your HRIS and Payroll Software, and you already have a flexible reporting tool at your disposal. But, you have hit a roadblock … where to start? |
Plot Alert: Your Training Data May Have a Story to Tell
April 2010
Ever wondered what kind of a story your HRIS would tell you if you asked it to? After all, you've been entering your training data into it consistently - meticulously even. And you have populated performance appraisal historical data. But is that same data communicating back to you? You may be surprised at the tale it will tell. |
The Optimizer: Using Your HRIS to Maximize Productivity
March 2010
Forecasting human resource demand is an exercise in variability. The result can be different, depending on how the variables in the equation are adjusted. Data stored in your HRIS can be information to help you to optimize employee productivity, which can, as a side benefit, in turn improve general workplace morale. |
Compensation Planning as a Retention Strategy
February 2010
With the return of a buoyant economy and job opportunities rising, it is inevitable that some staff will consider leaving. Voluntary terminations cost organizations in terms of recruitment costs, training costs and lost corporate historical knowledge. Compensation planning is a common retention strategy...How can your HRIS help you in this effort? |
Custom Benefits Plans: Achieving “flex” in your HRIS
January 2010
January always produces peak attendance at the gyms – everyone is diligently following their optimistically-derived New Year's resolutions, by limbering up and flexing at yoga classes and the like. Perhaps it is also a good time to reassess the flexibility of your HRIS...Is your HRIS up to the “fit”-ness challenge? |
HRIS (aych-ar-iy-es ): 1. noun key to alignment with corporate objectives
November 2009
Becoming more strategic is a top priority in many organizations. Purchasing an HRIS is often a reflection of the belief that aligning HR with the corporate objectives can help to achieve those objectives. The right HRIS can make significant contributions in the following areas... |
Web Enabled: Employee Empowered
October 2009
Imagine this. An employee is able to access and review his training status online, research course requirements for his progression to Team Leader, and submit his own training requests... |
Social Therapy for your HRIS
September 2009
Is your HRIS a social wallflower? Technology has evolved, and now it is time to get your HRIS out there working the room. What does this mean? ...getting your HRIS to share information with and “talk to” other systems... |
Making Your Health & Safety Data Work for You
August 2009
The row of Health and Safety binders housing incident reports neatly tops your credenza, a veritable warehouse of data. And the potential spectre of a serious incident ominously looms around them.... |
The Right Tools for the Job: The Right People for the Positions
July 2009
Regardless of the economic climate, it is a fact that organizations want to retain “star” personnel , and that efficiency gains are realized through ensuring that there is a suitable match between staff and the position that they fill on the org chart.... |
The Spreadsheet Epidemic: Where is your HR data?
June 2009
Without a Human Resources Information System (“HRIS”), organizations have increasingly been resorting to spreadsheets to fill the functionality gap. The symptoms have become increasingly common.... |
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