Managing Dotted Line Relationships
Managing Dotted Line Relationships Often companies are traditionally structured into functional silos (i.e, manufacturing, finance, sales, etc.) and the hierarchy is well-defined. Each silo manages its own area of responsibility and work is passed in a linear fashion from one silo to another, much like an auto assembly line [...]
OrgCharts for Strategic Planning
Org Charts as a strategic tool Typically the information on an org chart is limited to name, title and department. These charts are sometimes maintained in simple drawing software such as PowerPoint and Visio and are limited to giving a static snapshot of the structure of an organisation. As [...]
Blindsided by Talent Gaps
At a time when businesses are reevaluating the composition of their workplaces we’re revisiting this client story which first appeared in the March 2016 edition of IHRIM’s Workplace Solutions Review. By Joe Kollinger A unique visualisation of the workforce gave one of our clients advance warning of talent gaps [...]
Emotional Wellness
Your Employees & Emotional Wellness. Emotional wellness can no longer be ignored when examining the overall health of a workforce. A 2017 UK government commissioned review of the workplace showed 300,000 people lost their jobs each year due to mental health related problems. Millennials have become the “mental health [...]
5 Reasons to Integrate…
5 Reasons to Integrate Your Org Chart into Your Intranet by Chris Meyers. Increasingly more mobile, and distributed, today's workforce is spread across offices and time zones, making it more difficult for people to connect with each other like they used to. The days of tapping someone on the [...]
Understanding Turnover Rate
Understanding and Improving Turnover Rate A central challenge for the HR department of any organisation is to understand and optimise the turnover rate of employees. The costs involved is losing good employees are just too high to ignore. Managing churn goes beyond simply calculating the turnover rate and trying [...]
Gender Equality in the Workplace
Gender Equality in the Workplace A 2018 study by the Office for National Statistics showed that women currently make approximately 80% of men’s median hourly wage in the UK—the gender pay gap in 2018 was 17.9%. The same studies reveal that, in more skilled jobs, that gap is even [...]
OrgChart Platinum 12 Just Released
OrgChart Platinum 12 Makes Planning Your Company’s Future Easier Novato CA, September 5, 2019, OfficeWork Software, the maker of the leading tools for workforce planning and management has released OrgChart Platinum 12. Organisation charts are increasingly used by companies to plot the future course of their organisations. OfficeWork Software [...]
Shaping Your Company’s Future
Talent Management - Shaping Your Company’s Future It’s no surprise, in the present buoyant job market, that recruiting high quality candidates is the number one challenge faced by 76% of HR managers according to a recent report by Glassdoor. Talent management—the business of recruiting, hiring and retaining employees—has become [...]
Better Planning with the 9 Box Grid
How to Use the 9-box Grid for Better HR Planning A 9-box grid provides a visual display of employee performance and is commonly used for succession planning. A 9-box, as seen in the example below, is a way of assessing employees on current performance and future potential within the [...]
