...Definition of outsourcing 3 2. Functions outsourced by HR 3 3. Advantages of outsourcing HR Functions 4 3.1 Managing and minimising risk 5 3.2 Cost Savings 5 3.3 Efficiency and economies of scale 5 3.4 Professional Expertise 5 3.5 Improved Employee Morale 6 4. Disadvantage 6 4.1 Poor Performance and decline in quality 6 4.2 Distance and lowering moral 6 4.3 Recruitment Problems 6 4.4 Leak of important internal information 6 4.5 Perceived loss of power and control 7 4.6 Increased Direct Costs 7 5. e-HRM 7 5.1 Objective of e-HRM 7 5.2 Advantages of e-HRM 8 5.3 Disadvantages of e-HRM 8 6. Conclusion and Advice to the Client 8 1. Definition of outsourcing The Human Resource department is considered to be one of the highly accredited departments of the organization; these are the people who provide the working resource to the company and keeping the company afloat even in the worst economic downtime. The best way in which the HR can be managed is decided by the HRD. The ways in which the human resource management is done has changed considerably in the recent years. The HR activities and functions can now be delivered, not only by the specialised Human Resource professionals, but also through outsourcing (Ulrich 1996; Tremblay, Party and Lanoi 2008). The HR outsourcing can be defined as the purchasing of the HR functions and services from a third party supplier. HR outsourcing can also be defined as the process of subcontracting a process, such...
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...HR OUTSOURCING HR outsourcing is the process of sub-contracting human resources functions to an external supplier. Different HR functions that can be outsourced: One can outsource various HR functions depending upon the expertise required. Recruitment is unarguably the most common functions outsourced. However, it is functions like payroll, leave tracking, record keeping, etc. Recruitment: Outsourcing recruiting makes a lot of sense. The organization will always have the final say in the selection of the candidate, but the screening of resumes, and initial selections can be completely outsourced. Then there are also entrepreneurs who believe that recruitment should never be outsourced to an external party as they cannot fully understand the culture of your organization and will fully understand your requirements. Administration: This includes maintenance of employee master payrolls, tracking of leaves, any kind of employee redressal and grievances, entry and exit process, paying provident fund and life insurance, and so on. These are people- and effort-intensive activities that can be mastered over a period of time. This is the reason why it makes sense to outsource it to a service provider. Strategy: This includes setting up a performance management system, building an employee handbook, and undertaking activities that offer value addition for employees. A number of strategic drivers for outsourcing HR services are: 1. Reduced cost 2. Increased efficiency ...
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...Introduction: The recruitment process involves finding the right people for the position or positions a company may be looking for. One has to make sure the individual or individuals are qualified for the position as well. Often times there are many applicants that apply for a position and choosing going through the applications can be a challenge in itself. Company’s go to great length to make sure they project what they would like to the community with regard to their business and community involvement. Advertising can play an important role in this. This is where the company can express its values and culture within the company. There can be barriers to recruiting such as the labor market and qualified workers that may or may not be available. How a company deals with this is also very important. Human resources play the lead role in the recruitment process. There are many methods that can be developed in order to reach the target audience. It is important to understand where qualified applicants will come from. Whether the organization hires from within or from outside the organization it is important to develop a plan that recognizes the difficulties and challenges in recruiting. In an article called Recruitment Process Outsourcing Today’s Challenges and Opportunities, it states there are benefits to outsourcing the recruitment process. “Organizations outsource recruitment and hiring practices for many reasons. Some may lack the internal resources to address their talent...
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...Outsourcing: The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Outsourcing Advantages of Outsourcing One of the biggest advantages can be lower personnel costs. By outsourcing job duties to non-employees, a business does not have to pay consistent wages or offer additional employee benefits. The company may pay lower taxes because independent contractors, the people who complete the outsourced projects, pay their own withholding, social security, and other taxes. This can add up to substantial savings. Some businesses choose to take their outsourcing one step further by choosing a vendor, located in another part of the world. Doing so typically saves them more money because they end up paying a much lower wage than would be necessary in their home country. The disadvantage is that these vendors may not understand English and communication is more difficult. Many times, outsourcing speeds up production time. Since the third-party vendor will only be concentrating on one specific task, instead of numerous office duties, actual production time can be greatly increased. Outsourcing gives a business the flexibility to change third-party vendors whenever necessary. This process is not as time-consuming as the normal employee hiring process, because they are not screening individuals, they are considering established companies with proven track records. An excellent example of this is customer service. When a business outsources its customer service department, it does not have to hire...
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...What is Outsourcing? Outsourcing refers to the way in which companies entrust the processes of their business functions to external vendors (Dinu, 2015). At times, an organization cannot handle all aspects of a business process internally while focusing on their core competencies. There are necessary functions that an organization would prefer to outsource. Once the function is outsourced to the service provider, they will take ownership and risk to manage the function as agreed upon by both parties. According to much of the literature and research on case studies, Figure 1 details the most commonly outsourced activities (Hoecht, & Trott, 2006). IT Outsourcing Legal Outsourcing Content Development Web Design and Maintenance Recruitment Logistics and Distribution Services Manufacturing Technical/Customer Service Human Resources Services Sales and Marketing Finance and Accounting Services Procurement Services Computer Programming Services Tax Compliance Training Administration Transportation of Products Benefits and Compensation Planning Payroll and Human Resource Functions Figure 1: The most commonly outsourced activities. Why Outsource? When an organization is considering outsourcing, they must weigh the efficiency of performing the activity internally versus the external vendor’s efficiency and evaluate the risk associated with the decision. The organization must consider both strategic and operational issues related to the decision to outsource. Greaver (1999)...
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...BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING ABOUT BPO BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing. There is a common misconception that B.P.O. and call centers, mean one and the same. A call centre is a remote location in India wherein calls made by customers abroad are routed to India by means of telecommunication equipments. This call is answered by call centre agents who are trained to speak in an accent which the customer can understand. This accent is commonly referred to as Neutral Accent Coming to the term Business Process Outsourcing, let us understand the term in a simple way by breaking it up. There is a business. Each business has got a process. A process means a specific way or method of doing a job. Those jobs which are routine in nature, are given to countries outside India, to save money by way of salaries. OVERVIEW OF VARIOUS CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BPO INDUSTRY * Voice Process (Inbound and Outbound) * Semi Voice Process or Back Office Support * Medical Transcription * Medical Billing * Data Entry * E-Mail Support * Knowledge Process Outsourcing * Recruitment Process Outsourcing * Education Process Outsourcing * Legal Process Outsourcing * Technical Writing * Content Writing * Web Designing ABOUT NASSCOM NASSCOM stands for National Association of Software and Servicing Companies It regulates the functioning of the IT and ITES industry IT means Information Technology which includes software programming and ERP...
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...HR PRACTICES OF WIPRO STUDENT UNDERTAKING This is to certify that we have completed the Project titled “H R P r a c t i c e s o f W I P R O ” under the guidance of Prof Sana Danani in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of Bachelor of Management Studies at Rizvi College of Arts, Seience & commerce. This is an original piece of work & we have not submitted it earlier elsewhere. ROLL NO. 105 86 100 89 71 NAME: Jyoti Singh Atul kumar Pandey Muzaffar Shaikh Asim Qureshi Jangle Sanchit SIGN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank my Project Guide Prof. Sana Danani for her immense guidance, valuable help and the opportunity provided to us to complete the project under his guidance. I would like to thank all faculty members of Rizvi College of Arts, Science & Commerce for guiding and supporting me in the completion of project from time to time. Last but not the least, my gratitude to great almighty and my parents without whose concerned and devoted support the project would not have been the way it is today. ROLL NO. 105 86 100 89 71 NAME: Jyoti Singh Atul kumar Pandey Muzaffar Shaikh Asim Qureshi Jangle Sanchit SIGN SUBJECT PROFESSOR (Prof. Sana Danani) CO-ORDINATOR (Furkan Shaikh) CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project titled “ HR p r a c t i c e s o f W I P R O ” is an academic work done by the following student submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of bachelor of management...
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...Outsourcing refers to obtaining certain services or products from a third party company, essentially sourcing something like accounting services or manufacturing of a certain input to another company. While many think outsourcing refers to using a service provider in another (usually cheaper) country that is not necessarily the case. Outsourcing can be done to a company that is located anywhere, the location isnt important. The key reasons a business would choose to outsource are: Cost: Often some services or products can be obtained for a far lower price while obtaining the same level of quality. Even when the quality is not quite as good as could be done internally the cost savings are so significant that the trade-off is deemed acceptable by management. Services outsources often include internal business departments like finance or IT, where significant cost savings can be obtained. Specialization: Some business processes or products are very specialized and outsourcing to another provider provides access to higher quality. In manufacturing for example, every computer maker doesnt need to specialize in making micro-chips, they can outsource it and get a higher quality product than they could likely build themselves. Any business that has suppliers for inputs to their manufacturing process are essentially choosing to outsource part of their manufacturing process. Flexibility: For many companies outsourcing provides the benefit of only having to pay for precisely what...
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...OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY, VOL. 22, NO. 4 DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grj029 OUTSOURCING AND OFFSHORING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRODUCTIVITY OF BUSINESS SERVICES MARI SAKO Saïd Business School, Oxford1 This paper reviews the implications of outsourcing and offshoring for the productivity of business services in the UK. Official statistics indicate that business-service productivity has grown by over 20 per cent in the last 7 years at the same time as employment grew by 20 per cent. The paper considers possible factors that account for the simultaneous growth of employment and productivity. First, we discuss outsourcing and offshoring, and their role in enhancing productivity through greater specialization, standardization, and consolidation of business processes, and a shift to higher value-added services. Outsourcing of business services is interpreted as part of corporate restructuring, namely as the unbundling of corporate functions as well as vertical disintegration. Second, as some services become more like products, both low-skilled and high-skilled jobs are subjected to productivity growth through standardization and digitization. It is argued, however, that the future of business-service productivity is on a knife-edge, depending on the mix of two sources of productivity enhancement—namely greater standardization and capturing value from customized solutions. I. INTRODUCTION Services have become a dominant part of the UK economy, accounting for 66 per cent of GDP,...
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...Can the Philippines be a new call centre capital? Investigate the outsourcing of call centre’s to the Philippines INTRODUCTION: Filipinos are excellent in communication and possess a good command of English that is the reason why Philippines are attracting more investor to put their call centers hubs in the country. Though Filipino workers are hardworking and globally competitive there are many factors that should be considered when an investor wants to invest in the Philippines; some factors are the labor cost and low tax. Filipino workers have American culture that influences them with their good communication skills; they provide a high quality service, high skilled worker, and educated worker. With the help of the Philippine government in making good infrastructure and providing a free training. Will this help the Philippines be the new call center capital? Philippines a new call centre capital? The Philippines is now number 1 in the world when it comes to providing voices service, the top provider of technical support is still India because of its cheaper labor. Business processing outsource companies remain optimistic that Philippines can be the new call center capital in the world with the strength that every Filipino workers has it is possible for the country to be the new call center capital in the world. Because of their excellent communication skills and because they possess a good command of English, Filipino workers are considered a very good business processing...
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...Phida HR OUTSOURCING The Human Resources department or support systems are responsible for personnel sourcing and hiring, applicant tracking, skills development and tracking, benefits administration and compliance with associated government regulations. A human resources department is a critical component of employee well-being in any business, no matter how small. HR responsibilities include payroll, benefits, hiring, firing, and keeping up to date with state and federal tax laws. Any mix-up concerning these issues can cause major legal problems for your business, as well as major employee dissatisfaction. But small businesses often don't have the staff or the budget to properly handle the nitty-gritty details of HR. Because of this, more and more small businesses are beginning to outsource their HR needs. HR outsourcing services generally fall into four categories: PEOs, BPOs, ASPs or e-services. The terms are used loosely, so a big tip is to know exactly what the outsourcing firm you're investigating offers, especially when it comes to employee liability. A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) assumes full responsibility for your company's HR administration. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a broad term referring to outsourcing in all fields, not just HR. Application service providers (ASPs) host software on the Web and rent it to users--some ASPs host HR software. E-services are those HR services that are web-based. Both BPOs and ASPs are often referred...
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...INDEX 1 Outsourcing industry Objective Introduction Importance of outsourcing Classification of outsourcing industry Advantages of outsourcing Disadvantages of outsourcing 2 WIPRO BPO Comparative sheet of wipro Ratio analysis of wipro 3 INFOSYS BPO Ratio analysis of infosys Comparative sheets of infosys 4 GAPS OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY OBJECTIVE The objective of this report is to focus on the outsourcing sector of India and to provide an insight of the various major players in this sector . To analyse the outsourcing industry and find the future growth opportunities To carry out the company analysis of the major players in the outsourcing sector INTRODUCTION Industry is the manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, country, region, or economy viewed collectively, or one of these individually. A single industry is often named after its principal product; for example, the auto industry. Outsourcing is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. Almost every organization outsources in some way. Typically, the function being outsourced is considered non-core to the business. The outside firms that are providing the outsourcing services are third-party providers, or as they are more commonly called, service providers. Although outsourcing has been around as long as work specialization has existed, in recent history, companies began employing the outsourcing model to carry...
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...society. This is what we do, this is what we know about, this is what we care about, this is what we are all about. For more information: www.adecco.com/en-US/About/Pages/default.aspx Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 4 Our global reach Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 5 Our global reach We help around 700,000 people find work every day through our network of more than 32,000 full-time employees and around 5,100 branches in over 60 countries and territories around the world. The Adecco Group is the world’s leading provider of HR solutions. Our services and solutions fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development as well as outsourcing and consulting. Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 6 Our strategy Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 7 Adecco Group strategy Serving individuals and enterprises The strategy of the Adecco Group is to be alongside each phase in the life cycle of our clients and candidates/associates. Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 8 Our services & solutions Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 9 How HR...
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...Management Elixir Human Res. Mgmt. 48 (2012) 9491-9497 Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) – India S Praveen Economic Officer at Forward Markets Commission (GOI). A R TI C L E I N F O A B ST R A C T Art i c l e h i st ory : Received: 22 May 2012; Received in revised form: 28 June 2012; Accepted: 16 July 2012; K ey w or d s Knowledge, Outsource, Market research. Knowledge Process Outsourcing, or KPO, is the latest wave to hit the outsourcing business in India. A booming sector with tremendous potential, the KPO sector in India employs around 25,000 people currently. KPO is Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). It involves outsourcing for high-end knowledge work. This includes research and work on intellectual property, equity and finance, analytics, market research and data management, et cetera. This article is prepared for better understanding of the concept and state of India in the sector. © 2012 Elixir All rights reserved. Introduction The Outsourcing Industry has been extensively researched in the past decade. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in particular has been the topic of many analyses. Outsourcing first appeared in the IT industry in the 1980s. This was the time when companies recognized the benefits of having IT service partners in order to develop complex systems, and enhance the way that a business process or service is managed (Schumacher, 2005). Since then, the outsourcing industry has gone through its introduction and growth stages, with growth...
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...Running Head: HR OUTSOURCING AT PEPSICO HR Outsourcing at PepsiCo HR Outsourcing We all are aware with the truth that Human resources are the most crucial assets of every organization as the success of organization depends upon the management of its human resources. Ensuring the satisfaction of employees requires expert human resources department that is in reality a costly affaire for most of the organizations and due to this in present most companies are making decision regarding outsourcing their human resources management functions from offshore destinations (HR Outsourcing, 2008). Basically in this process of HR outsourcing an organization generally make use of the services of a third party for taking care of its HR functions. An organization may outsource a little or all of its HR related activities from a particular or grouping of service provides situated in offshore destinations. Role of HR Outsourcing at PepsiCo In this stream of HR outsourcing, PepsiCo is also not left behind from it as HR outsourcing plays a prominent role in its business operations. For getting various advantages of HR Outsourcing PepsiCo had selected Hewitt Associates for a 10-year deal that concentrates on HR business process outsourcing services like workforce and benefits administration, payroll and contact centre support (Bednarz, 2005). This HR outsourcing deal of PepsiCo with Hewitt Associates also concentrates on the...
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