Payroll & HR

With unemployment, hiring freezes and redundancy dominating the headlines, its not surprising that many business professionals will happily say goodbye to a recession-dominated 2009 and look forward to a more positive 2010. The IT sector, like many others, was unable to sidestep the impact of a global recession, experiencing a significant ... read more..

Change management Marc Humphries of Atos Consulting considers the effect that the changing demographics in the workplace will have upon UK businesses. Those of us of a certain age will remember the original 1970s Saturday night TV show with Bruce Forsyth and his glamorous assistant Anthea give us a ... read more..

Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk, questions whether the infrastructure is in place to support women seeking a career within the IT industry.Lets start with a few facts and figures. Currently, just 19% of the IT and Telecoms workforce is female, a figure which has fallen by 4% since 2005. Just ... read more..

2009 has seen the power of social media reach an all-time high with many of us dedicating our precious time daily to blogs, chat forums and popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Rob Marcus, director at social networking moderation company, Chat Moderators believes that social media is ... read more..

Roger Fullilove, HR Access Solutions. The world has changed. In a few short weeks in late 2008 the credit crunch, as the media styled it, descended and turned our economic and business world on its head. It created a chaos not witnessed in a generation, or even since 1929, and much ... read more..

Cascade, 2009. What is self-serve HR? Self-service systems will help HR departments empower line managers and employees. For example, typical functionality that HR might roll out to self-service users at employee level could be: Request holidays (with authorisation route). Request bank changes (with authorisation route). ... read more..

Brendoncare is a registered UK charity, dedicated to improving the quality of life for older people. It has 10 residential care homes and nursing homes and also provides outreach, close care and day are services. As a charitable organisation, it could be assumed that Brendoncare would not have the resources and ... read more..

CASE STUDY: ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT/VIZUAL BUSINESS TOOLS With a single point of entry for data and employee self-service, HR can rely on the data to an extent that wasnt possible in the past. Managers can run their own reports and the whole company recognises that HR data is sound. Nigel Rogers, ... read more..

CASE STUDY: ABBOTT LABORATORIES/KALIDO Stephen Swoyer, Business Intelligence Journal, December 2008. Business change disrupts, undermines, subverts and in many cases wrecks the best-laid plans or strategies of business and IT executives. It doesnt have to be that way. Along with disruption, change also produces opportunityto revisit, tinker with, improve upon and in some ... read more..

Press Release from The National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. Issued 11th June 2009 Nearly a third of organisations feel that their financial systems have failed to meet all their original business objectives. This is according to new research commissioned by the Evaluation Centre (www.evaluationcentre.com), an interactive online service guiding IT buyers in ... read more..

Involving and engaging staff can reap dividends during times of recession, say Bettina Pickering and Amy Finn of PA Consulting. Research over the past 10 years has shown a clear link between employee engagement and employee performance. Some notable examples include: In 2001, Gallup carried out thousands of interviews to demonstrate ... read more..

Company: Southampton City Council. Interviewee: Jackie Standen. Job Title: Head of organisational development. The Subject: Southampton has used HR payroll outsourcing as a means to introduce innovations such as employee self-service while improving its own service delivery. PERSONAL FILE NAME: Jackie Standen. BACKGROUND: Jackie has been head of organisational development at Southampton City Council since ... read more..

ANDY CROSSEY of Capgemini says too many HR departments ignore the key elements of their IT implementation. Implementing a new HR system is all about the data after all, the key functions of an HR system are to collect and store information and to enable you to use it effectively ... read more..

The HR department has undergone many changes in recent years and the signs are that this will continue apace. Structural changes that were once the preserve of large and leading-edge organisations are now filtering down to companies of all sizes, with the aim of increasing the value that HR brings ... read more..