RMHRPS - Rocky Mountain Human Resource Planning Society

July HRPS Online Newsletter Update: Issue 42

HR Strategy and Planning

Study Confirms HR's Business Impact
Coaching, consolidating staffing requirements and workforce planning are tops among the HR processes that "consistently drive highest business impact." Read More...

SHRM Research Shows HR Active in Strategic Change
Managing major changes is a challenge faced by 82% of surveyed HR professionals, and their roles include championing change, facilitating it, designing change or demonstrating it. Read More...

Leadership Development

Succession Planning Takes on New Importance
Leaders in international not-for-profit organizations may need to step up efforts in succession planning and knowledge management in response to upcoming retirements. Read More...

i4cp Finds Leaders Want to Leave a Legacy
Leaving a "legacy" - both professionally and personally - is important to the managers and ex-ecutives responding to a September 2007 "Practitioner Consensus Survey." Read More...

Talent Management

Companies and Workers Disagree on Benefits
Research shows a disconnect between the views of employers and employees when it comes to benefits-related concerns. Read More...

Traveling Kids Keep Parents on the Job
Freudenberg-NOK instituted an innovative program designed to encourage employee recruitment and retention by providing opportunities for workers' children to visit worldwide locations of their choice. Read More.

Organizational Effectiveness

Companies Use EAP to Boost Productivity
With an eye toward improving worker productivity, 59% of U.S. organizations say that they offer employee assistance programs. Read More.

Extending Engagement Beyond Top Performers
Not only is it important for employers to engage their high-performing workers, but "an emerging focus and emphasis is being placed on a group of employees called Pivotal," Read More.

Building a Strategic HR Function

Authors Provide Advice to Bulk Up HR
A "two-minute drill" approach may be an effective way for HR to accomplish the many change initiatives in which it's involved that are designed to improve organizational performance. Read More.

European Leaders See HR Metrics in Their Future
HR leaders in Europe strongly agree that the importance of HR measurement will increase over the next five years, but it's critical that they receive support as they take on this challenge. Read More.