Outsourcing - having an outside vendor provide a service that you usually perform inhouse - isn't exactly a new idea. Outsourcing is a shift in the traditional business paradigm. People are refocusing their core businesses and their core strategies. In the process, they're asking themselves: What is my core business? How much time should I be spending on administrative/HR/compliance tasks? Could I get more value from outsourcing to an outside vendor who probably could do it better and cheaper? Will outsourcing leave me more time for higher-level strategic planning?
Companies have long contracted with outside firms to perform various services. Now HR is reaping the benefits of outsourcing many functions, from the mundane to the strategic. In the process, many HR professionals are saving money and time while improving the service offering.
Outsourcing is one of several trends that are accelerating an essential evolution of the HR function, says John Boudreau, a management professor at University of Southern California. "HR is in the throes of a dramatic extension of what it delivers to the organisation. People talk about HR being ‘strategic,’ but that is a vague term," Boudreau says. "What we see happening is that HR is beginning to focus on improving the decisions leaders make about investments in talent."
"This is quite different from managing compliance or delivering services," areas that are now targets for outsourcing, Boudreau says. He likens what is happening in HR to the evolution of the finance function as a "decision science" separate from accounting, or the evolution of marketing as a decision science separate from sales. "There is an emerging HR decision science: ‘talentship,’ " Boudreau says.
HR on Call for SMME’S
It is compulsory for all companies from SMME’s to large organisations to comply with Labour Legislation. Many businesses not have HR capacity. We provide HR services on call that are customised to your needs.
For a nominal fee and a minimal 8-hour per month service, we can offer you our professional HR expertise-leaving you to concentrate on the business of business. These services are offered at a retainer fee beginning at R3 600 per month excluding VAT.
Our basket of services covers:
- Labour Relations services including:
- Chairing of disciplinary and grievance hearings
- Offering advice on Labour issues
- Mediation and conciliation
- Procedural and substantive negotiations
- Drafting contracts of employment
- Drafting of HR policies and procedures
- Labour Relations training
- Recruitment and Selection
- Competency Assessments
- Performance Management
- Employee Assistance Programmes including
- Disability management
- Trauma counselling
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- Coaching and Mentoring
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- Development of systems (ISO 9000 / 9001), leading to ISO accreditation
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Our outsourced retainer service to larger organisations includes all the HR on Call Service offerings, our management consulting services and training programmes plus HR and change management communication campaigns.
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