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Understanding HR Strategy Benchmarks and Metrics
This collection is your road map to success in creating and managing HR strategy. The content within will teach you how organizations create and manage their HR strategies;…
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Human Resource Strategy: Roadmap for Process Improvement
This infographic is your roadmap for improving the HR strategy process. It outlines the best route for reaching your desired destination--to create and implement an HR…
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4 Tips for Establishing an Internal Talent Marketplace
Today’s professionals know that continuous learning is key to career success, but traditional talent development rarely meets the pace or direction at which employees want to…
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A skills taxonomy is a standard framework that provides a common language for skills and maps their connection to other skills as well as jobs. With a common language to…
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HR Strategy and Planning Productivity
In evaluating HR process group and process performance, HR staff productivity is an essential consideration. Generally speaking, high levels of HR staff productivity can…
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HR Strategy Cost per Employee
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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HR Strategy Cost Per $1,000 Revenue
One of the first metrics that executives tend to look at when evaluating the performance of corporate functions or processes, such as HR processes, is cost. The measure Total…
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Efficiency of HR Strategy and Planning
Organizations that are efficient in HR strategy and planning deliver the human capital contributions that the business needs in ways that make the best use of HR time and…
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HR Strategy: Example
Following is an example of a completed HR strategy document. Use it as a guide to document your organization’s HR strategy in APQC’s HR Strategy Template.
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Keys to Implementing HR Strategy
An HR strategy is the combination of HR and people initiatives that are necessary to deliver on an organization’s business strategy. It directly informs how an organization…
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HR Strategy and Planning: Snapshot of Top Performance
This infographic explores key performance indicators, including drivers of top performance, to help your organization achieve success in HR strategy and planning.
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HR Strategy: Template
Use this editable template to document the HR strategy for your organization, line of business, and/or business unit. For an example of a completed document, see APQC's HR…
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HR Strategy and Planning Tune-Up Diagnostic
Having a well-designed and executed HR strategy has been linked with competitive advantage, improved financial outcomes, and superior shareholder returns. To fully reap these…
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Measuring HR Effectiveness
When it comes to evaluating the value of a support function like HR, it’s important to look beyond operational tasks and realize that HR exists to achieve the short-term and…
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HCM Strategy Key Benchmarks: Media/Entertainment Industry
Prepared using APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® portal, this table highlights human capital management benchmarks in the Develop and manage HR plans, processes, and…