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Joachim & Associates will:
Through its team of experts, work with you to develop understandable, sustainable and cost effective HR and Business solutions including but not limited to: |
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| Recruitment and Selection |
Do you have the right people on board? Have you had difficulty finding mid or senior-management?
"Even the best training events cannot turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Neither praise nor pay can make someone perform beyond their capabilities”. Perhaps the fundamental key to corporate success, therefore, lies in the recruiting and selecting the right people to carry out the work required".
Joachim & Associates recognizes that selection is not an exact science, but it can prove very expensive if done badly. We will prevent your organization from "shooting in the dark" and help you to find that needle in a haystack with an emphasis on mid-senior management.
Among other frameworks, we will use a weighted competency-based person-specifications approach to remove the subjectivity that is generally prevalent within the recruitment and selection process. We will administer the process from start to finish including evaluation of the selection activity.
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| Compensation and Benefits Development |
Do you optimize costs and value to employees? Are you leveraging pay to deliver value?
While factors such as growth and development opportunities, positive relationships with managers, the nature of work performed, and respect for the organization and its values play an important role in retaining employees, a primary factor is a very important driver of retention – hard, cold cash - money makes matters better or worse - hence the need to optimize costs and value. That being said, employee benefits are an increasingly important and complex segment of an organization's compensation portfolio. Joachim and Associates will offer access to the latest information relating to employee benefits that will help you make better decisions and maximize your benefit choices
We will examine every element of your employee’s performance and potential based on their personal value in the marketplace based on their skills, competencies and expertise. And, we will help you identify steps and will prepare a compensation and benefits system that is not bland or homogenized and treats peak performers and average performers virtually the same.
Joachim & Associates compensation models will allow your employees to seize opportunities and complete projects that were never conceived in the goal – setting process, leveraging appropriate compensation and benefits to deliver value to your organization.
Not all organizations are suitable for pay-for-performance systems; others cannot continue with a tenure-based system. Still, some existing compensation systems are deemed unethical. Joachim & Associates will design an effective compensation and benefit system to suit each particular need, with strategies and programmes that meet both organizational needs as well as employee needs. | |
| Human Resource Audits |
How is your HR function doing? How do you know?
An objective, independent assessment conducted by Joachim & Associates is the best way to find out – the best first step to building better HR - is a comprehensive audit. Joachim & Associates will analyze and evaluate the role of your HR function and its contribution to the organization. It will also assess your company’s regulatory compliance.
Having the audit conducted by external consultants like Joachim & Associates, fewer biases about the organization and less personal interest in the outcome would occur than with an employee of the company performing the audit. As external consultants, we will be more objective and within weeks, Joachim & Associates will provide a complete 3D picture of your HR function and all your people management policies.
Our audit function is beyond mere accountability; it is a proactive, diagnostic tool, objectively designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of businesses wide HR practices, helping the company mitigate risk factors. J&A audit will help you determine where you are, prioritize what you have to do, and guide on how to know for certain whether or not you have looked at the right issues. | |
| Human Capital Strategy |
Do you have a Human Capital Strategy? Or do you just have a series of policies? Is it aligned with your business strategy?
Joachim & Associates recognizes that a human capital strategy, the people side of business design which often drives business results, is critical in providing a road map for organizations. However, the development of an HR strategy needs to start with your business strategy which invariably focuses on key indicators such as: return on capital (ROC), operating profits and share capital if applicable.
How can an HR strategy prepared by Joachim & Associates effect on the firm performance in terms of the above indicators? Simply put – it is likely to shape the human capital base in terms of recruitment and selection of the right people, with the right competencies, as well as training and development. It is likely to influence the degree to which the firm can maximize its human capital base in terms of employee motivation to stay with the firm and perform. It is likely to have an impact on the firm performance by influencing the degree to which talented and motivated people are provided with the job-related opportunities and discretion to contribute. Moreover, HR strategies developed by J&A may provide the stable infrastructure "structural cohesion" or synergy that propels the firm forward allowing it to rapidly and effectively respond to change.
Joachim and Associates, through effective measurement techniques, HR system models and Business Process Solutions will ensure that your firm does not have a series of personnel policies only; rather an HR strategy that is uniquely tailored and measures people’s effects on business performance.
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| Workforce planning |
Organisational success depends on having a workforce with the right skills and the right knowledge at the right time. Are you in operating in a reactive mode surprised by events or are you planning?
Joachim & Associates will provide your organization with a comprehensive workforce plan which will provide a strategic basis for making recruiting and staffing decisions, recognizing that effective workforce planning is an essential process for identifying and addressing the gaps between an organization’s current workforce and the human capital needs of tomorrow.
Joachim and Associates workforce planning tools will give your organization the ability to identify and implement gap reduction strategies, envisioning what positions, roles, functions and skills that may be required in the future, making decisions about how best to structure the organization and deploy the workforce. With J&A tools, ultimately, the organization will be able to identify and overcome internal and external barriers to accomplishing strategic objectives.
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| Performance measurement and management |
Are you getting the most from your employees? Are you interested in performance management or managing performance?
Joachim and Associates experts understand the distinction between performance management and managing performance – one is a motivator while the other is disciplinary. We at Joachim and Associates have the ability to quickly assess current and historical performance in order to differentiate both. We also understand that this process is critical to meeting organizational goals.
Unlocking the full value of organization workforce enables you to put the right people in the right jobs, develop and reward top performers, retain key talent for the long-term; increasing efficiency and operating performance throughout the organization.
Joachim and Associates will work with your organization to establish performance management systems and tools that will contribute to organizational success through the development of a performance driven culture that rewards those who achieve desired results and corrects performance deficiencies.
Performance management systems encompass much more than the means to conduct routine performance appraisals. Discover from our team of experts at J&A how to leverage the right talent throughout your organization in maximizing competitiveness and creating a more business - high performance culture. | |
| People management policies, procedures and standards |
Do you have clear and well articulated policies and procedures?
Work place and organizational standards, policies and procedures provide certainty for staff, management, volunteers and customers as to what behaviour and conduct is appropriate in the work environment. Well developed and well communicated standards, policies and procedures can prevent conflict and reduce costs of management.
J&A can assist in customizing a system of approved policy statements and prepare corresponding procedural guidelines and supporting forms that direct your organization toward its operational goals. We will provide what you need, when you need it and the tools to help you use it. Business operating manuals will include but not limited to:
- Personnel Administration templates
- Business policy and Procedural manuals
- Workplace Health and Safety manuals
- Employee Handbooks
- Training and Development Manuals
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| Human Resource Information Systems |
How are you transforming the delivery of routine but important administrative activities?
Joachim & Associates, through alliances with HR software companies, will assist you in the use of simple or advanced information technology in order to transform the delivery of routine but important administrative activities to lead to greater efficiencies and reduced HR –to-employee ratios. J&A will recommend HR software to meet your individual needs which will allow you to concentrate on adding value through knowledge based, problem-solving activities. We will help you find ways to reengineer HR by streamlining, automating and integrating your people management information. | |
| Retention Strategies |
Will your employees stay?
Many organizations are grappling with the issue of how to build, maintain and retain intellectual capital. Some of the biggest changes in the increasingly fragmented job landscape are the shifts in employee attitudes. Loyalty to the employer is becoming a thing of the past and many organizations are urgently reviewing ways of securing the commitment of people whom they do not want to loose. However, retention problems are usually a symptom of other things going wrong in an organization.
Joachim & Associates can assist your organization through the development of retention strategies by analyzing turnover statistics of business units, department or team. Our retention strategies would take into account the particular retention issues your organization is facing, and determine ways in which these issues can be dealt with. Moreover, our strategies will have a more strategic approach which put efforts into prevention, rather than crisis management. It would involve a risk analysis of the target group. J&A can also provide a retention plan which would propose actions to focus on each of the areas which falls into the "danger zone".
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| Regulatory Compliance |
Do you know how to navigate the maze of statutes and regulations?
Each year brings fresh employment law challenges for line managers, personnel practitioners and HR professionals. There ought to be regulatory compliance from the recruitment and selection stage to the termination stage. The relationship between employer and employee consists of rights and obligations on both sides and these are determined by law and various other agreements. Joachim& Associates will assist you in navigating the maze of statutes and regulations, including information and consultation of Employees regulation. Moreover, we will help you evaluate your organisation’s documentation, policies, and procedures against the legal requirements and provide advice on resolving employment issues, while following best practice, including the role of social partners and the social dimension. | |
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