All levels of education aspire to manage human resources effectively.

For instance, according to the Society of Human Resources Managers (SHRM), K-12 is facing critical workforce and demographic challenges. K-12 human resources departments provide the expertise to determine whether qualified teacher candidates make it to the classroom or slip through the cracks. District leaders that recognize HR’s importance – by thinking deliberately about ways to reorient their central bureaucracies to be more effective and to focus on schools’ needs – are in a position to marshal HR as an ally that supports, rather than hinders, efforts to overcome the current workforce challenges.

The College and University Professional Association of Human Resources indicates that institutions of higher learning also face a number of equally important issues. As higher education HR professionals become strategic partners on campus, they face many challenges: complex legislative and regulatory initiatives, changes in workforce trends, increased demand for HR management skills, and the need for greater accountability.

Education leaders at all levels are addressing challenges that include:

• Rising retirement rates of members of the baby boom generation, resulting in the loss of key faculty and staff.
• Developing leadership (including succession planning), recruitment and retention strategies.
• Aligning HR with the business of education.

How can you optimize the value of human resources for academic and administrative excellence?
With SAS Human Capital Management, you can report proactively on HR’s contribution to the organization’s overall strategies. SAS Human Capital Management is the only solution that combines award-winning data warehousing technology with Web-based, HR-specific decision support. With SAS, you get the most powerful analytics and the most comprehensive intelligence capabilities of any software available today. And with SAS, you get a single solution – from a single vendor – that solves your all HR needs, giving you the flexibility to change and update information easily as your strategies change. The result? You’ll achieve a streamlined HR process that reflects your overall mission while allowing you to plan for future needs.

Benefits of human capital management
SAS Human Capital Management equips you to:

• Integrate the disparate HR data sources needed for workforce planning to provide analysis of demographics, diversity, age and critical skills.
• Track investments in human capital by monitoring internal courses and rewards.
• Recruit for hard-to-fill positions by incorporating data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Integrated Postsecondary Education Systems (IPEDS).
• Measure strategy against key performance indicators.

SAS also can help you accomplish such workplace planning goals as:

• Strategic planning.
• Recruitment and retention.
• Human capital development.
• HR performance management.

A full suite of solutions to meet your needs
SAS Human Capital Management works hand in hand with other SAS solutions to combine information about performance management. The solutions range from financial and procurement management to IT resource management, student recruitment and retention, and advancement and fundraising. You can also implement the highly acclaimed SAS Activity-Based Management for high-powered costing and planning analytics.