Let’s face it, it can be very highly embarrassing to put up inaccurate HR numbers to the senior management. More so, it can be catastrophic when decisions are made based on those numbers. Decisions that impact your talent.
At some point in your careers I’m sure you’ve heard someone say that when making critical decisions that are beyond the norm it’s wise to take a calculated risk. To do that, you’ll need to be confident with the HR numbers you are using to analyze and make decisions. And this confidence in numbers will arrive if you’ve taken steps to minimize, if not eliminate, human errors.
For far too long HR has been dependent on spreadsheets like MS Excel. While I’m not denying the utility of this tool, it’s prone to human errors. And that is precisely what you as an HR leader can’t afford.
Empower Yourself With Strong Decision Making
Your talent pool matters the most. Today your workforce is well informed and demanding (and why shouldn’t they be). This gives you all the more reason to be analytical, forward thinking and innovatively creative in how you manage your talent. For this reason you need data and information that you can analyze promptly and accurately to make critical decisions and take calculated risks where needed. In short, you need HR numbers you can rely on!
Exploit Your Team’s Full Potential
I couldn’t emphasize on this enough. Without automation you’re wasting away your team’s ability to tap into their full potential. They will be underutilized and misused by doing mundane tasks you can avoid with the help of an HR system. With an HR system you can automate routine, yet important, tasks like compensation and benefits administration.
Along with this, it’s also important for you and your team to see how your HR numbers are impacting the business. Payroll is a significant portion of an organization’s overhead. You need to be able to give your leadership accurate analysis of the payroll’s growth in comparison to that of the business. Remember to be a strong HR leader you need to stay in tune with your organization’s numbers and fair them against the HR numbers.
What You Gain Buy Automating HR Numbers
- Accuracy of data that’ll allow you strategic insight and confident decision-making
- Speed of processing that is currently being hampered by manual and paperwork
- Leverage the system’s various modules to get a holistic view of HR metrics and processes
- Empower your team go beyond operational tasks and make more strategic contributions
- Earn credibility and be seen as a strategic partner to business leaders
How To Become Confident with Your HR Numbers
Here are a few popular payroll management systems which you may want to consider as a starting point:
ADP Worldwide – offers a wide array of HR automation services and with their worldwide reach you can be assured you’ll be implementing global best practices
Times Software – a highly friendly web-based user experience is what they pride themselves of. Their system offers robust automation of key operational HR functions.
Ramco Systems – almost every HR function can be automated with their system, however, they are well known for their payroll solutions in the Asian market.
HR numbers can be challenging to keep up with. After all you’re dealing with a dynamic talent pool who are looking at you to shape the organization’s culture. The last thing you want is to make a decision that impacts them based on erroneous numbers which you could have avoided had you automated.
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