Resource Library
APQC’s Resource Library is your source for timely and topical information to help you meet your most complex business process and knowledge management challenges. Explore our ever-growing collection of more than 8,600 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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What’s the “Right” Amount of HR Spending?
Whether in a weak or strong economy, your organization’s competitiveness and profitability depend on the continual scrutiny of expenses. How can you tell if your organization…
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How to Justify an HR Budget Increase
You’ve reviewed your organization’s top objectives, outlined an action plan for HR, and concluded that an HR spending increase is in order. With HR budget cuts commonplace,…
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Average Span of Control for the HR Function
The span of control—which refers to the number of direct reports a manager has—is a measure that can help organizations evaluate the size of their HR function. Measuring the…
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Even best-in-class-HR functions have opportunities to improve and grow. This article, based on APQC's research into the current state of the HR function, presents improvement…
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The "best" HR functions do things differently. Their practices reveal steps that other HR functions can take to improve performance. Based on an advanced analysis of APQC's…
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Top Challenges Facing HR
Find out the top four barriers that stand in the way of the HR function making a bigger and better contribution to business results. Learn four steps that HR needs to take to…
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This article describes how best-in-class HR functions manage HR skills and development. It sheds light on the top HR skills gaps among all HR functions and provides guidance…
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This article describes the data and analytics practices of best-in-class HR functions. It provides examples of how HR functions are applying data and analytics and offers…
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How Best-in-Class HR Functions Manage Change
Drawing from APQC’s Current State of the HR Function Survey, this article reviews the change management strategies and approaches of best-in-class HR functions. It includes…
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This article explores how best-in-class HR functions are structured. It describes the benefits that the best-in-class achieve from this HR operating model. And, it provides…
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Building Blocks of Best-in-Class HR
This infographic showcases the practices and performance outcomes realized by best-in-class HR functions. It includes steps that other HR functions can take to improve. …
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HR Operating Model Trends
Find out how HR functions today are structured, whether current HR function structures are proving effective, and whether HR functions have plans to restructure in the near…
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HR Spending, Staffing, Performance, and Challenges
Get an inside look at HR spending and staffing trends. Learn the top challenges facing HR functions today. And, find out how HR functions are faring on key performance…
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HR Skills Gaps and Development Opportunities
Learn the top three HR skills gaps today, why HR skill requirements are changing, and what development opportunities are currently offered to HR staff. This infographic…
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Presentation Slides|
What's Really Happening in HR? Highlights from APQC's New Survey
In this webinar, APQC's Principal Research Lead in Human Capital Management, Elissa Tucker shares the results of APQC's survey on the current state of the HR function. During…