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| unit labor cost Computed by dividing the average cost of workers by their average levels of output. |
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| Organizational resructuring |
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| Organizational restructuring involves eliminating layers of management and changing reporting relationships as well as cutting staff through downsizing, layoffs, and early retirement buyout programs. |
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| Redesigning work often involves having fewer employees who perform multiple job tasks. It may also involve replacing workers with capital equipment or making them more efficient by use of technology or new processes. |
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| Aligning HR activities means making HR efforts consistent with organizational efforts to improve productivity. This alignment includes ensuring that staffing, training and development, performance management, compensation, and other HR activities are not working to offset productivity. |
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| Outsourcing analyses require HR to conduct cost-benefit analysis to examine the impact of outsourcing. Additional factors may include negotiating with outsourcing vendors, ensuring that contractors domestically and internationally are operating legally and appropriately, and linking organizational employees to the outsourcing firm's employees. |
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Strategy and Planning
Equal Employment Opportunity
Staffing
Talent Management
Rewards
Risk Management and Worker Protection
Employee and Labor Relations |
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| Organization Restructuring |
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Revising organization structure
Reducing staff
Aiding in mergers and acquisitions |
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| n the 1980s most large companies used a mainframe computer to run a Human Resource Information System (HRIS). These systems processed payroll, tracked employees and their benefits, and produced reports for HR managers. All of this was run by Information Technology (IT) people. In 1989 a software package called PeopleSoft became wildly popular—it allowed HR to run its own reports and make changes without help from IT. Today SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) runs in a vendor's data center or in the cloud and the self-service it allows has probably done more to change the work of HR than anything else.Footnote |
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| Specialized HR Organizations |
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| WorldatWork Association and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). |
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