EMPLOYEE RELATIONS & HR MANAGEMENT
Our Employee Relations & HR Management service line offers solutions in a number of areas ranging from the development and implementation of personnel policies and procedures to interventions which ensure legislative compliance. We also develop KPIs and associated metrics/reporting systems to improve organisational efficiency.
Personnel Policies & Procedures
We work with clients to develop internally and externally consistent personnel policies and procedures. By reviewing existing arrangements and identifying issues or gaps which may have the potential to leave your organisation exposed, our solutions are designed to address legislative, operational, efficiency and/or competitive shortfalls. READ MORE ⇒
Legislative Compliance & Best Practice
We audit policies and procedures to identify areas of potential legal exposure and to ensure full legislative compliance. In reviewing policy in operation, we consider not just what an organisation’s stated position is, but more importantly, the practices which actually exist. READ MORE ⇒
Personnel Policies & Procedures
In addition to providing performance and strategic human resource consultancy services, RA Consulting also works with client organisations to develop internally and externally consistent personnel policies and procedures. We review your existing arrangements to identify any issues or gaps which may have the potential to leave your organisation exposed from either a legislative, operational or competitive perspective.
A review of your organisation’s recruitment policy and procedures might, for example, highlight an approach to reference checking or probationary reviews which increases the risk of retaining unsuitable personnel. Alternatively, you may be found to be in a state of non-compliance with equality and anti-discrimination legislation. In evaluating such policies, we work to limit your exposure to the risk of litigation, as well as the associated financial, time and adverse publicity costs.
Once policy gaps or shortfalls have been identified, we propose high-level redress solutions which are reviewed with your key managers to ensure that they ‘fit’ with your organisation’s culture. Managerial involvement is also considered to be important if revised policies are to be owned, implemented and supported by your management team.
By developing personnel policies to support key areas of your business, your organisation benefits from a more structured and equitable approach to the management of personnel. Such policies and arrangements also act to discourage legal challenges and successfully defend such challenges where they do arise.
Legislative Compliance & Best Practice
At RA Consulting, we audit clients’ personnel policies and procedures to identify areas of potential legal exposure and to ensure full legislative compliance. We also review certain aspects of your operations/approaches to people management to identify practices which may be found to be problematic, should they be subjected to third party scrutiny.
To this extent, we consider not just what your organisation’s policy position is, but more importantly, the practices which actually exist. In the absence of internal compliance, policy guidelines are of little benefit where legislative challenges arise; it is for this reason that we look beneath policy to evaluate practice.
Our interventions in this area are designed to ensure that your organisation is positioned to discourage costly and time consuming compensation claims and also to ensure that they can be defended successfully in situations where spurious claims are pursued.
In assessing your policies and procedures, we identify best practice solutions which not only ensure compliance, but also enhance employee commitment and organisational competitiveness. To this extent, we use the opportunity to provide you with solutions to your medium as well as short term requirements.