Not just the routine attendance, headcount, appraisal reports - but HR reports that'll make management sit up and take notice - and drive the business forward next year. Here are a few ideas. You'll have more ..
Payslips: Customizing tractor-feed page-size in Windows printouts
Pre-printed payslips always seem to be printed on tractor-feed paper that isn't a standard size. So how do you size the page properly if your dot-matrix printer only offers pre-set sizes? In Windows, like this ...
If your people management strategy isn't valuable enough, suggests Jon Ingham, then it's not good enough. Jon's Value Triangle shows how HR can add value to the business in 3 different ways. Read on ...
No self-respecting HR software package these days comes without a self-service module. But sometimes we forget that not all employees have access to a computer. What they generally do have is a mobile phone. So what should HR-SMS include?
Payroll Confidentiality: can you trust your own team?
My clients love to split their payroll into 2 - for senior staff and the rest. Apart from the inconvenience of running two payrolls where one would do, aren't we sending out the signal that we don't really trust our HR team? What do you think?
'What rocks your HR world?', asks Scott McArthur. Well, he rocked mine. He's made me thoroughly ashamed of myself for always taking a critical view of our profession. Let's accentuate all that's good about HR, then dream on. Is he right ...?
Want to write truly subversive software .. then leave out the manual. But if you're interested in contributing to Accelerate HR, you might like to start helping us with the documentation ...
Why does HR spend so much of its time on personnel administration and so little on talent management and development? Is it that we need to streamline our administrative tools? Or is it because we still don't know how to measure employee contribution?
Accelerate HR is a set of software tools being designed for a construction business. But if HR in your business is data-intensive, then perhaps you should take a look too ...
Why do business managers want to hang on to their trusty old spreadasheets, when we could offer so many glittering alternatives? But maybe they're right. And that's why we're planning support for spreadsheets right alongside our HR web database ...