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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 8,000 research-based best practices, benchmarks and metrics, case studies, and other valuable APQC content.
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HR Organization: Blueprint for Success
This collection is your road map to success in managing HR function operational efficiency and effectiveness. The content within will teach you about documenting HR processes…
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Optimizing HR Operations
The savings are big for organizations that reach peak levels of performance for HR operations. This infographic quantifies the savings opportunity and lists proven…
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In this article, APQC reviews five key performance indicators that assess the overall health of the HR function at a high level: HR cost per $1000 revenue, HR cost…
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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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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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HR Function Tune-up Diagnostic
This tune-up diagnostic is designed to help you make a quick assessment of your HR function performance in terms of cost, productivity, and efficiency. The assessment…
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Understanding HR Function Benchmarks and Metrics
This collection features HR Function data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® survey for Human Capital Management Organization Performance. It includes interactive…
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Interactive HR Organization Tune-up Diagnostic
Whether you are dealing with a directive to reduce HR spending, trying to make the business case for investment in new HR technology, establishing HR function performance…
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HR Staff Productivity
HR staff productivity is an important indicator of overall HR function performance. All else being equal, a more productive HR staff can handle a greater volume of work and…
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HR Administration Efficiency
The efficiency with which HR administrative tasks are handled is a key component of overall HR function performance. It plays an integral role in the employee experience,…
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HR Function Efficiency
Efficient HR functions deliver a positive employee experience and contribute to strategic business goals in ways that make the best use of HR staff time and the HR budget…
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HR Cost per $1000 Revenue
Cost is one of the first metrics that executives look at when evaluating the performance of corporate functions like HR. This article describes one HR function cost measure…
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HR Cost per Employee
Cost is one of the first metrics that executives look at when evaluating the performance of corporate functions like HR. This article describes one HR function cost measure…
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HR Function Key Benchmarks: Cross-Industry
Prepared using APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking® portal, this article highlights important measures and median metric values for HR organization processes. Metrics…
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Human Capital Metrics of the Month
Each month, APQC features a metric (cost, productivity, efficiency, cycle time, or supplemental) from our Open Standards Benchmarking® human capital management research. This…