- How much is your current wage bill?
- How much of these wages are allocated to non-revenue generating staff?
- How much effort and management resources goes into running these departments?
- How much staff related issues are you experiencing?
- How much would you be saving if you could do without this?
The reality is that we all need our Accounts, Human Resources and Admin departments. We would not be able to run our businesses successfully without them.
The question remains... are these departments vital to your core business and growth funnel and is it crucial to keep departments like Human Resources and Accounts in-house?
The answer is no, the trend these days is to outsource support functions, and Human Resources and most clerical work are being outsourced daily...there are many other reasons to outsource.
The cost-benefits of outsoucing is phenomenal and alleviates the company to focus on it's core business
and spend it's money where its needed most. As a business owner you have the mandate to
outsource business
functions today to make bottom-line tomorrow.
- Human Resources experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable.
- The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted.
- The second time, that thought gets strengthened.
- The third time, he looks for another job.
When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. They dig their heels in and slow down, by doing only what they are told to do and no more. The employee omits to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don't have your heart and soul in the job."
Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, suspicious, pushy and too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.
Talented staff leave. Dead wood doesn't.
The immediate boss could therefore be the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts
with them, straight to the competition.
"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
Business leader Jack Welch of GE once said. "A company's value lies between the ears of its employees".
- Low Staff Morale?
- Low Productivity?
- Disciplinary Issues?
- Lack of proper business processes?
- Dealing with difficult employees?
- Costly overheads?
- Lack of HR resources?
- Lack of HR Strategies?
If you answered Yes to more than 2 of the above questions then you will benefit a great deal from a ChilliHR Membership.
By signing up as a member you will, improve Employee Relations, utilize best practices, have sound disciplinary advice, Case Law Research, Grievance handling, Labour Cost Model, Remuneration Model and ensure labour law compliance.
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