Business Partner Modeling?

Q: Are any of your HR departments organized using a Business Partner Model? If you are willing to share the specifics of this organizational model, including a department org chart and the ratio of HR Business Partners to employees, we would very much appreciate it. We are in the process of evaluating our HR department’s structure, and are looking at various ways of reorganization.

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Pay increase budgeting

Q: I realize we’ve just received our annual salary survey data, however, we are wondering if companies have revised their budget since submitting data. We are interested in knowing just the individual Merit % and Promo % (not COLA, market, etc.) planned for this year. Thanks in advance for your help.

A: Results:
Company Merit Promo
Company 1 3% 1%
Company 2 3% 0%
Company 3 4% 1%
Company 4 3% 0%
Company 5 3% 0%
Company 6 3% 1%

Reorganization Ideas

Q: Are any of your HR departments organized using a Business Partner Model? If you are willing to share the specifics of this organizational model, including a department org chart and the ratio of HR Business Partners to employees, we would very much appreciate it. We are in the process of evaluating our HR department’s structure, and are looking at various ways of reorganization.

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HRIS Recommendations

Q: Synteract is needing to look at a new HRIS. We have been with Abra for 5+ years and have outgrown it, the newest obstacle is that it does not have an international component, so does not record country codes or make exceptions for one not having a ssn. Other deficiency - point in time; what you enter, regardless of the effective date, will be reflected once its entered.
With this in mind, if you have an HRIS you would recommend, (or suggest we steer clear of), we would welcome your input.

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On Call Pay

Q: We are evaluating our on call policy for our Technical Support Team. Our team's responsibilities include troubleshooting technical problems with customers and diagnoses on medical device instruments requiring a wide range of experience and training in the medical industry.

1) Are your Technical Support staff exempt or non-exempt?
2) Do you give them on call pay? If yes, how is it calculated - by hours actually worked or hours on call?
3)What is your on call policy during a holiday?

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