Human Resources: HR.com Whitepapers

MyBenefitSource
If you are considering outsourcing your Payroll and Benefits functions, take a look at MyBenefitSource. MBS promises to ''wear all your administrative hats'' so you can have more time for strategic planning and other essential duties.

Pay for Performance-The Importance of an Integrated Approach
An outline of why aligning pay with performance is so important. Sponsored by Authoria - leading provider of Human Capital Solutions.

Case Study: City Public Service, San Antonio, Texas
Aileen MacMillan, HR.com''s Enterprise Performance Management and Competencies Analyst, spoke with representatives of City Public Service about their experience implementing an EPM solution.

Talent Management Metrics: A Survey of Current Practices
An important aspect of management of the recruiting and talent management function is the ability to access and work with recruitment and talent management metrics. An HR.com Research paper from Management and Metrics analyst Claude Balthazard.

Most Common Candidate Sources: A Survey and Its Results
HR.com conducted a survey focused on effective use of candidate sources as they relate to the staffing function. In this survey we asked respondents to rank their own organizations´ effectiveness in their use of various sources. Results are contained in this paper.

A Three Tiered Leadership Training: Air Products Case Study
HR.com's Training analyst, Josh Bersin, writes that leveraging cultural competence in today's markets can mean the difference between success and failure when executing business strategies; from HR.com Research.

Job Profiles and Job Profiling: A Survey of Current Practices
HR.com's Chief of Research, Claude Balthazard, explores the current organizational practices with respect to job profiling. This HR.com research report, draws from HR.com's Job Profiling Survey which polled 631 senior managers and executives responsible for the staffing functions in their organizations.

Establishing the Legal Defensibility of Online Screening and Assessment: What you need to know.
This HR.com Research Whitepaper is intended to provide practical information about the topic of legal defensibility as it applies to employee selection; from HR.com's screening and assessment analyst, Charles Handler.

Employee Performance Management: A PowerPoint Presentation
Much more than Performance Appraisals! A PowerPoint presentation from HR.com's Performance Management analyst, Aileen MacMillan, HR.com Research.

Strategic Benefits Administration Outsourcing
Benefits administration is an attractive area to outsource because it is a repetitive high-volume activity. In this paper we'll look at the current state of benefits administration outsourcing; HR.com Reasearch.

Candidate Management Tools
Candidate management tools are actually simplicity refined. They allow you to establish an effective process for sifting through all of the responses to any postings you have on your corporate Web site.

A Model For "Right Sourcing" A Human Resource Process
This HR.com Research Report will discuss the suggestion that a mathematical model could be developed to evaluate the feasibility of outsourcing specific HR processes.

A Model For "Right Sourcing" A Human Resource Process
This HR.com Research Report will discuss the suggestion that a mathematical model could be developed to evaluate the feasibility of outsourcing specific HR processes.

Selecting a Performance Management System
Aileen MacMillan, HR.com's Senior Performance Management analyst, presents this HR.com Whitepaper on how technology can facilitate an increased focus on performance and the achievement of strategic objectives.

Measuring Quality of Hire: The Four Essential Challenges
In working with quality of hire, there is no simple answer, no silver bullet. This does not mean that it is not worth the effort to put in place quality-of-hire metrics. Indeed, it is possible to develop very useful quality-of-hire metrics that will serve the purpose of maximizing the effectiveness of your hiring processes.

Trends in Employee Benefits: What's Hot, What's Not
The highest priority for employer provided benefits programs should be to protect the employee from significant financial hardship due to illness, disability, or death. A recent study listed the top five HR concerns of employers and employees.

Governance, Wall Street and Compensation Policy
When matters of compensation come up, it is going to be the compensation managers who are going to have to take the lead in putting together the data, explaining the data, explaining the policy, and the reasons behind those policies.

Talent Mangement Systems: Selecting a Project Team and Managing the Selection Process
Considering that many selection campaigns take from 3-18 months and the eventual implementation can take roughly the same about of time, selecting the right contributors is just as important as selecting the right tool. Â

Supporting Your Managers to Improve Performance: Providing the Necessary Tools
The demands on today's manager are quite significant and tools that provide support to enable managers to carry out their job functions more efficiently and effectively are available.

Arkansas Children's Hospital Becomes An Employer of Choice - A Journey to Excellence with The Disney Institute
In May 2002, Arkansas Children´s Hospital took its senior management team to Florida where they attended Disney Institute´s program, "Excellence in Healthcare Leadership." Karen Elmhirst, HR.com's Senior Leadership analyst brings us this story.

Designing an Effective Recruitment Process for Small Business
Designing an effective and efficient recruitment process is a cornerstone of success for small business.

Key Driver Analysis and Other Causal Analysis
Means and Correlations: Different Approaches to the Interpretation of Employee Survey Results. Claude Balthazard, HR.com's HR Measurements and Metrics analyst, focuses on the practical implications.