Understanding Turnover Rate
Understanding and Improving Turnover Rate A key role of any organisation's HR department is to understand and manage the turnover rate of employees. Losing good employees is just too expensive. Managing turnover goes beyond simply calculating the turnover rate and trying to hit an arbitrary number. When business leaders see [...]
Origin of the Org Chart
Origin of the Organization Chart as a Tool of Business Management Joe Kolinger, Founder and CTO of OfficeWork Software, explores how through necessity the first organizational charts came to be and how they shaped business management today. Organizational charts today have a mixed reputation. While companies need them they are [...]
Talent Hoarding
At the time of writing Australian unemployment is at 5.2%, with rising rates of participation in the workforce. A range of issues come with this favorable employment environment including worker quality, job satisfaction and employee retention. In the competition for workers, companies can become so desperate for help that they [...]
Data Integrity in HR Projects
HR Data Integrity for Organizational Change Projects . For over 15 years, OfficeWork Software has provided workforce planning and organisational change solutions for our global clientele. We have worked on many different initiatives: mergers, spin-offs, delayering, downsizing and gearing for rapid growth. Over time we have observed that data [...]
Gender Equality in the Workplace
Gender Equality in the Workplace An August 2019 report by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) shows that the average gender pay gap remains at 14% in favor of men across the nation—in Western Australia, that gap increases to 21.8%. Disparity in leadership positions is equally acute, with only one [...]
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 an [...]
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 organization. [...]
Mind the Gap: Open Positions
Mind the Gap: Managing Open Positions in Your Organization Identifying and filling open positions quickly and effectively is a priority for the human resources department of any organization. Employees come and go constantly, not just with resignations but retirements, promotions and relocations. Gaps in the organization need to be [...]
Succession Planning
Succession Planning Australia is at a critical time as the 5.5 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1965 continue to retreat from the workforce. This is having obvious repercussions both economically and socially. Progressive businesses, both big and small, can’t afford to wait until the moment senior members announce [...]
Salary Benchmarking
With job wages rising by 2.4% in Australia in 2018, compensation is a variable the HR professional must be attentive to in order to retain the best talent. For most companies, compensation is the major cost item and so demands careful consideration. Especially in today’s healthy job seeker market, [...]
