Articles by Hirra Pervaiz

Employee turnover is a major concern for many organizations today. High employee turnover can have a devastating effect on a company, especially if the lost employees are high performers. First and foremost, it is costly to replace personnel, and the proprietary knowledge that they take with them when they leave is impossible to replace. A ripple effect often occurs as well. When employees...Full Article »

HR shared services have become a popular means to give the room to HR professionals to focus on more strategic assignments and to serve as a strategic business partner in the true sense. HR shared services is not solely for the new businesses emerging, but is also for those organizations that have already adopted shared services for its other back office operations. Since the main aim of HR...Full Article »

The HR shared services (HRSS) experience has been discussed in a variety of contexts, where Employee Self Service (ESS) and Manager Self Service (MSS) have been the focal points of all these discussions. Although the essentials of these services are known by many HR professionals today, their effective roll-out is still open to discussion. ESS is the collection of services that are designed to...Full Article »

Have you ever stopped to ponder the fast-paced transition in learning methodologies? Having started with D-learning (Distanced Learning) we moved to E-learning (Electronic Learning) and now we've jumped to M-learning (Mobile Learning). It’s quite intriguing how the changing dynamics of the business environment have transformed the mediums of communication and the learning...Full Article »

Are your job descriptions (JDs) adding value to your organization? Are your JDs serving their intended purpose? Most importantly, are your JDs up-to-date? These are some of the questions that pose certain challenges for the HR personnel. They serve to keep all employees aligned to the organizational goals, thus adding value to the organization. Job descriptions are a much talked about subject in...Full Article »

The old adage “sharing is caring” applies today to the new wedlock of Human Resources and technology—where the latter vows to be there in good times and bad, share the worries, and to make the bond as successful as possible. But, the question is: is technology really performing to support HR? Technology surrounds us everywhere. With its advent in the field, the scope of HR has...Full Article »

The human resources department is often tagged as an “evil” in the organization by the employees and a “soft area” by the management. Despite such tags, the HR function has evolved and broadened in scope and functionality and has assumed varied roles such as the “people’s people,” “change agent,” and “strategic business...Full Article »