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HR Metrics, Reporting and Financial Mgmt Flashcards

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Labour Costs per FTE

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labour costs/FTE

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Labour Cost Revenue Percent

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Labour costs/revenue

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Cost of Benefit as a % of Total Labour Costs

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benefit costs/labour costs

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Return on Investment (ROI)

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benefit-cost/cost

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Web-Based HR Systems

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these are through the internet - such as Employee Self-Serve, Manager Self-Serve or HR Portals

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HRMS

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Stand Alone HRIS, Speciality Products

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HR Audit

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review of HR policies, programs, processes, and documentation to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, customer satisfaction and legal compliance

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Purpose of Efficiency Metrics

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assessing whether things are being done right

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Purpose of Effectiveness Metrics

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assessing whether the right things are being done

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Purpose of Operational Metrics

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assessing efficiency and effectiveness of programs and services

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Purpose of Strategic Metrics

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assessing the linkage between HR programs and services and the organizations’ strategic goals

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5C Model of HRM Impact

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compliance, client satisfcation, culture management, cost control, contribution

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Use of Metrics

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track trends, establish base lines, conduct benchmarking, measure impact, and to justify strategic decisions

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HR Dashboard

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visually displays important HR metrics

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Types of Productivity Metrics

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absenteeism measures, overtime measures, human capital ROI

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Types of Recruitment Metrics

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% of positions actively recruited for vacancy rate, external hire rate, avg time to fill position, cost of external hires, quality of external hires

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Types of Retention Metrics

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turnover, executive voluntary turnover rate, succession planning rate

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Types of Labour Relations Metrics

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grievance incidence, % of grievances close,d arbitrated grievance rate

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Types of L&D Metrics

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cost per fte, cost as % of revenue, cost as % of payroll, incidence, duration, participation

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Absenteeism Formula

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of workdays missed due to illness per FTE (sick days/FTE)

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Overtime Formula

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Avg # of OT hours worked by each individual (OT/individual headcount)

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Human Capital ROI

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rate of return for each dollar invested in employee pay & benefits (Revenue - [Operating Expenses -(Compensation and Benefits Costs)] / Compensation and Benefits Costs

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Compa-ratio for an Individual

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individuals salary/midpoint of salary band

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% of Positions Actively Recruited for Vacancy rate

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vacant positions/headcount

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External Hire Rate

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external hires / # all positions filled

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Avg Time to Fill from Outside Hiring

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sum of all external days to fill / # external recruits

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Cost of External Hires

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total external hiring costs/ # external recruits

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Quality of External Hires by Source

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avg performance ratings of new recruits after 3 months from each hiring

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Turnover

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(resignations + retirements + involuntary terminations)/headcount

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Executive Voluntary Turnover Rate

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(executive resignations + executive retirements) / executive headcount

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Succession Planning Rate

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of succession planning candidates/executive level headcount

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Grievance Incidence

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of open grievances/unionized headcount

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% of grievances closed

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of grievances closed/# of open grievances

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Arbitrated grievance rate

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of grievances gone to arbitration/# of open grievances

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Cost Per FTE

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L & D cost/FTE

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Cost as a % of Revenue

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L & D cost/revenue

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Cost as a % of Payroll

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L & D cost/labour costs

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Incidence

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of learning & development events / FTE

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Duration

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of learning & development hours / FTE

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Participation

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of employees attending learning & development events / # of all employees

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Research Process

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1) Identify the Problem
2) Review the Situation
3) Formulate a Hypothesis
4) Design a Program
5) Implement the Program
6) Evaluate the Program and repeat if necessary

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Research Designs

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survey, experimental, qualitative, existing research

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Surveys

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used to assess change or create change

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Sampling

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deciding who and how many people should participate

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Types of Sampling

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Random sampling, stratified smapling, sampling error

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Random Sampling

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group of employees chosen at random from the whole organization or population

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Stratified Sampling

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group of employees who represent the organization in some way (ie. gender, dept)

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Sampling Error

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sample is insufficient to reflect the entire population

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Types of Questions

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structured questions, open-ended questions

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Structured Questions

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easy to analyze and limited in scope

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Open Ended Questions

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difficult to analyze, not restrictive in scope

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Survey Distribution Methods

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hard copy mail, email, over the internet, automated telephone

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Criterion Measures

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ensure measuring what is important

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Criterion Relevance

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ensure criteria is relevant to what we are trying to predict

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Criterion Deficiency

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occurs when haven’t assessed all the necessary criteria

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Criterion Contamination

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occurs when we measure things that are irrelevant

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Nominal Scales

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list of variables that have no “value” (ie. dept name)

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Ordinal Scales

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list of variables that have an order (oe. best or least, want most want least)

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Interval Scales

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scale that tells the mathematical difference between two responses

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Ratio Scales

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show the relationship between two variables (sales per employee)

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Validity

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ensures the measure is accurately assessing what is supposed to measure

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Realiability

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ensures the consistency of the measure

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Types of Validity

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content validity, criterion-related validity, predictive validity, construct validity, concurrent validity

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Content Validity

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ensures the measure accurately measures what it is supposed to

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Criterion-Related Validity

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ensures what is being measured is relevant

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Predictive Validity

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ensures that the measure can predict the dependent variable

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Construct Validity

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measures abstract constructs (IQ and Personality Type)

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Concurrent Validity

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when it can be show that current high performers also do well on the test

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Test-retest Reliability

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person achieves teh same score when tested twice using the same test

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Split-half Reliability/Internal Consistency Reliability

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score a person acheives on one-half of the test is the same as the score they receive on the other half of the test

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Inter-rater Reliability

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ensures reliability across raters; (ie two different raters have scored a candidate similarly)

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Measures of Central Tendency

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mean, mode, median, percentiles

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Regression Analysis

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uses correlations to predict an outcome

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Affinity Diagrams/Mind Maps

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enable us to look at groups of related issues as a whole

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Cause and Effect Diagrams/Fish Bone Diagrams

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identify a problem, sorting causes into four categories (machinery, methods, materials, people)

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Gantt Charts

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chart activities against dates

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Critical Path

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minimum time between start and finish of a project

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Delphi Technique

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brainstorming using a questionnaire

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Nominal Group Technique

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when voting follows a brainstorming activity

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SWOT Analysis

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examining Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities or Threats

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Utility Analysis

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assessing the dollar value of an initiative in terms increased productivie or performance

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