Author:M. Azim Ulfati

Core Human Resource Functions

• Determine how you might reduce involuntary turnover if you were the top human resource manager.
• Recommend two ways to control compensation costs that do not decrease employee motivation or productivity.

Involuntary turnover happens when an employee does not frequently show up for work (Absences) , termination of contract due to the lack and poor skills, immorality, sexual harassment or when an employee is overqualified for a job. This involuntary is experienced more among high-skilled talents.

If I were the top human resource manager; I would recruit and selected qualified people not overqualified ones based on the needs of my company.

I would create flexible teambuilding activities and would hired people who are flexible. I would have retained them through incentive pay and as well as each six months or three months bonuses. I would have trained my employees in the best possible way regarding the corporate culture of the company, current position and holding workshops on the related field and as well as ethical behaviors.

Investing in strategic solutions such as absence and disability management techniques will also reduce involuntary turnover.

There are two possible ways to control compensation costs that do not decrease employee motivation or productivity and they are downsizing, and outsourcing and that which they can be a great strategy for long-term success.

Downsizing is a reaction to an emergency situation and it can also be part of a broader workforce strategy designed to align closely with the overall strategy of the business. For example, a new business strategy that pursues different products or services and new types of customers may motivate firms to lay off employees with obsolete skill sets and hire new employees with the skills to implement the revised business strategy. And outsourcing is also one way to hire people from foreign countries with less pay and to control compensation costs that do not decrease employee motivation or productivity.

I used to work with one of the United States Companies called Mission Essential Personnel and what I learnt from this company was that the company hires not only translators from the United States of America but also hires more translators and interpreters from Afghanistan with less pay and funds. These interpreters and translators communicate via Internet, computer and phones from a long distance and that outsourcing helps to control compensation costs.