Optimising human capital performance

As citizens demand more and more from their governments, the challenge of hiring and retaining skilled employees has become crucial in optimising service delivery. Not only is it important to hire qualified people; quality benefits and training have become significant components of successful workforce retention.

Public sector organisations are taking initiatives to recruit qualified workers for departments and agencies. Knowing that they are competing with the better paying private sector, they are accessing HR data to help them move from the "one size fits all" mentality of HR to more progressive employment packages. Advertising campaigns and strategic planning are just some of the ways HR departments are looking to successfully recruit, train and retain the quality people they need.

Also, knowing how the HR processes tie into the organisation's overall strategy is important. Creating a more accurate picture of your work force enables you to plan strategically for trends that will affect future budgets. HR managers want software and services that can help them with workforce and strategic planning — key components for the success of any HR department.

With SAS Human Capital Management, HR managers have the ability to measure and report on HR's contribution to an organisation's overall strategy. Using SAS, organisations can analyse the work force, determine staffing needs and identify methods to address them. Use SAS HCM to:

• integrate the disparate HR data sources needed to do workforce planning to provide demographic analysis, diversity analysis, age analysis, critical skills analysis.
• track investments in human capital through monitoring of internal courses, rewards, etc.
• recruit for hard-to-fill positions by incorporating BLS, census, and educational pipeline info into HR Vision.
• measure strategy against key performance indicators.

SAS HCM 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. With SAS, you get a single solution to your HR needs from a single vendor, giving you the flexibility to change and update information easily as your strategies change.