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This Evaluation Centre provides information on HR software and payroll software:
1. Click on Strategy for an up-to-date overview of the HR software and payroll software market plus briefings from industry experts.
2. Click on Supplier Evaluation for HR software and payroll software Evaluation Reports which have been independently audited and checked for accuracy.
3. Click on Implementation for information about the remainder of the software lifecycle including articles by top consultancy firms.
4. Click on Service Centre if you need any other support or information on HR software and payroll software. The Evaluation Centre is here to help. |
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| Warwick Ashford rounds up the UK IT industry news highlights for ComputerWeekly.com, including a report from Ian Grant on how a recent spate of company mergers has made life “interesting” for the CIOs at British Airways and Iberia, the Co-op and Somerfield, and EDF and British Energy.
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GCSE results for 2008 show uptake for the IT GCSE is in steady decline. Some 85,599 UK students sat the exam this year, compared with 99,656 in 2007.
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Pressure point
Evaluation Centre's overview of the HR software and payroll software market...The pressure is on the HR department to spend less time on administrative activities and more on ‘transformational’ work. To address this problem, a number of structural changes in the way that HR services are delivered have been implemented in the form of shared service centres, outsourcing and electronic delivery in order to standardise policies and procedures.
This change is clearly reflected in the amount of re-organisation that has occurred within HR. In the past year alone, according to our latest survey, 35% of HR departments have undergone a significant restructure, with a further 17% re-organising during the last 12-24 months.
Respondents cite a range of reasons for the evolving structure of their HR department. The key drivers are the need to improve the services offered to the organisation (54%); enabling HR to become a more strategic contributor (50%); and repositioning the HR function to fit the wider organisational model (46%).
Somewhat lower down the scale, but nonetheless significant, are the need to reduce costs (26%), provide more responsive customer service (25%) and increase business focus (24%).
While most respondents feel their HR and payroll systems are either meeting their requirements very well (31%), or at least adequately (40%), nearly a quarter (24%) admit that they do not meet all of their needs. view in full >> |
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Avoiding the agonies of appraisal
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| Far from engaging employees, performance reviews can actually have the opposite effect and demotivate staff. Mike Thackray of ER Consultants shows what you can do.
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Providers can be choosers
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| HR service providers are starting to ignore contracts that don’t suit them. So is that a good or bad thing? Tim Palmer of PA Consulting reports.
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Bedell chooses Select’s PeopleVision
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| Leading offshore-based legal and fiduciary services provider, Bedell Group, has purchased the very latest browser-based HR solution, PeopleVision, from Select Software to take its HR forward.
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HR: to train or not to train?
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| In an economic downturn, IT training is often the first ‘overhead’ to cut. Shelley Fishel of The Training Surgery argues this could be a short-sighted approach to reducing costs.
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