Saratoga has produced a number of whitepapers on topics related to human capital effectiveness.
| Improving retention
Organizations that overlook the proven advantages of detailed and frequent measurement around the cost of retaining and losing valuable employees, especially high performance talent, are allowing dollars to slip away instead of adding them to the bottom line.
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| Pivotal employees
Over the past decade, many organizations have spent a great amount of time, effort and energy on identifying and managing high performers. Understanding what motivates and enables these "A" players employees is important. But, while high performers are essential to a company and warrant attention, an emerging focus and emphasis is being placed on a group of employees called pivotal employees.
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| Blind spot in compensation planning and design
The essential job of HR compensation departments and indeed senior executives needs to be how to increase revenue relative to labor costs. Companies need more information to make these decisions. This article provides a high-level outline of the steps PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Saratoga recommends that organizations take to maximize their investment in their workforce.
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Saratoga also publishes a monthly newsletter focused on topics related to the workforce management.
Additionally, Saratoga has searched PwC's site for other whitepapers, articles, and press releases we feel may be helpful to HR practitioners. An overview and link to each of these articles appears below.
US human capital effectiveness report 2007/2008
This executive summary provides analysis on trends PwC Saratoga has uncovered through it's annual human capital survey and is organized around the following key themes: Workforce improvements are stabilizing; skilled labor volatility; managing labor costs; and managing HR investments
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PwC human resource services publications
The workplace is changing. Many companies are looking to explore options as they create the most effective work environment for their people. Are your current programs designed to maximize your human capital? This collection of PwC publications is designed to provide insight to the critical issues facing people management.
Managing tomorrow’s people: The future of work to 2020
Managing tomorrow’s people is a thought leadership document that outlines three possible "worlds" which might exist in 2020. In these worlds we explore how organizations might operate and what the implications are for people management. It also contains findings of a global survey of 3,000 "millennials" from the US, China and the UK who represent a generation just joining the workforce, to test their views and expectations on the future of work.
Business insights: From rhetoric to reality
Despite claims by middle market CEOs and Financial Directors that investing in people is one of the top two areas of investment that would improve their competitiveness, the latest Business Insights survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals many European business leaders are failing to practice what they preach. An annual survey, this year's Business Insights has focused on HR/people issues, and involved interviewing over 500 CEOs and Financial Directors. It identifies several areas—including training, succession planning, workforce communication and the role of HR within the company hierarchy—where, unless major improvements are made, businesses will struggle.
Successful strategies for talent management
In today’s business climate, it’s not just people who are the most valuable asset to technology companies, but the right people. In view of the increasing scarcity of talent available worldwide, PwC and the Economist Intelligence Unit asked executives how they are meeting their current talent needs and, more importantly, what they’re doing to ensure that these needs are met in the next five years. The result is this in-depth report.
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