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Enterprise Compensation Management Technology

Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) is something that David Creelman thinks a lot of us may have wished for 20 years ago when such a thing wasn´t at all a possibility. As people begin to adopt it, it is one of the things that generally moves the function in the right direction.

Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) is something that I think a lot of us may have wished for 20 years ago when such a thing wasn´t at all a possibility; and as people begin to adopt it, I think it is one of the nice things that makes our life in HR much better and just generally moves the function in the right direction.

We are going to start with a little understanding of what ECM is all about. Then, we are going to talk about ECM in context and look at the other technologies that fit in a similar space. Obviously, one big question is: is ECM a good idea? Then we will talk about people who have been implementing ECM so that you can learn from what other people have done.

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Employee Referral Program Design, Development, and Implementation
Mark McAuliffe thinks it is important to put a process road map together, primarily to ensures that you get to your final destination, which in this case today, is an effective and efficient Employee Referral Program.

Raising the Bar on Performance Management - Best Practices To Optimize Performance Reviews and Goal Management
In today´s workplace, performance improvement and the role of performance management is an increasingly popular topic. Aileen MacMillan explores the reasons behind the focus on performance management in this HR.com Whitepaper.

Enterprise-wide Talent Management
An important trend in talent management is the emergence of integrated talent management platforms. An HR.com Whitepaper from Claude Balthazard.

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.

IHRIM - What can an Employee Performance Management Solution provide?
EPM solutions claim to improve employee engagement, alignment and productivity. Â This article will explore the functionalities available in EPM solutions today and how they contribute to the aforementioned benefits.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Effective Use of Technology to Optimize your Corporation's Talent
Talent Management is essential to any high performance firm. Firms must take the time to define and assess their talent management strategy on a global level.

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.

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.

Understanding Your HRMS Needs
This HR.com Research Report discusses the dramatic changes that have been seen within HR departments in organizations of all sizes in the last five years. It is critical to take the time now to assess your HR processes and systems.

Compensation Planning and Management in Financial Services
Progressive financial services firms are adopting software solutions that help optimize their investment in compensation by simplifying the end-to-end process surrounding compensation planning and management. But why are these solutions so appealing? Who benefits from them and, more importantly, what should prospective firms look for in a compensation planning and management solution?

The Role of Manager Self-Service Applications Human Resources
This paper looks at what manager self-service (MSS) is, why it´s important, and what, if any, payoff there is in adopting MSS applications.

Total Workforce Management
Workforce management decisions should be reshaped to maximize the total workforce. Whether you are in the market for a TMS or VMS, it would be prudent to ensure platform integration down the road.

The Mid-Market Talent Management Imperative
Systems integration, with HRMS and ERP, has been the major pain point so far in TMS implementations to the high end of the talent market.

Next Generation HR Self-Service Solutions that Pay
Recent research indicates that close to all of the Fortune 500 leverage Web based technology to outsource at least some of their human resources processes. It is predicted that close to three quarters of the Fortune 1000 will have some form of Web-based HR self-service by 2005.

HRMS: A New Look at Best-of-breed vs. ERP
In recent years, HR managers have been under pressure to adopt an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. The purpose of this white paper is to help Human Resource Management System (HRMS) buyers in mid to large enterprises understand the pros and cons of best-of-breed vendors; from HR.com Research.

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.

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.

HR Outsourcing and BPOs: Opportunity and Risk
The option to outsource most or all of HR is something that many organizations are currently wrestling with. As one would expect, the questions focus on costs and benefits, including savings. Just as often though, companies are seeking more fundamental information such as whether and what sort of HR outsourcing is right for them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.