Member wire #89 - HR to staff ratios

March 8, 2005

Member wire #89 – HR to staff ratios

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HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 89
8 March 2005
http://www.hrzone.co.uk
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SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS ****
1. The compliance burden – is it really all that bad?
2. Opinion: The case for referral schemes
3. The Couch!? asks, do you need an extreme makeover?
4. HDIGH? Talent and Resourcing Consultant, Selfridges & Co
5. Any Answers: HR to staff ratios, I&C, getting into HR
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Editor’s note
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The chicken and egg debate is an age old deliberation of form
and function. Did the egg determine the chicken or did the
chicken determine the egg?

Any Answers member Michelle tested the old grey cells when she
asked, “How many HR to staff should there be?”

According to Jane Coope the answer isn’t a simple 1 to a 100. HR
she says should abandon the ratio and determine what value HR
professionals are contributing to the organisation.

What’s your view? Does the value HR brings justify the number of
HR staff or does the number of staff dictate the HR headcount?

Have your say at: http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/137873

Regards,

Annie Hayes

Editor
mailto:editor@hrzone.co.uk

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Welcome new members
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This week, HR Zone welcomes members from the following
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The compliance burden – is it really all that bad?
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It’s a truism that small businesses, are struggling under the
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opposition parties and business bodies complain about the
“burden of compliance”, and blame the Blair Government for its
existence; Tom Blass Editor of sister site BusinessZone presents
his views.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/137914

Opinion: The case for referral schemes
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of attractive opportunities elsewhere.
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