Averted Affirmative Action Crisis

The HRC was contacted by a law firm partner about a client in crisis. The client was a long-term Federal subcontractor with 350 employees. They had just received notice of an OFCCP site audit and demand for submission of their current Affirmative Action Plan and Salary Analysis within the next thirty days. The firm had…

Complex Compensation Equation

A hospital’s VP, HR envisioned a restructure of his HR department where roles would be matrixed to an unusually high level, with staff matrixed and double-hatted. Given the complexity of the design, he felt the need for an objective 3rd party to work with his HR staff in creating their job descriptions, market pricing each…

Turnaround to Success

A hospital under a new senior leadership team was embarking on a carefully orchestrated turnaround. It needed an accurate assessment of the HR function to assure compliance and efficacy. To gain objective and subjective data, we conducted our proprietary HR function assessment survey with first and second tier managers to identify critical trends as well…

Governmental Diversity Disaster to Partnered Success

As one of six, nationally selected firms to conduct legislated diversity training for 75 governmental agencies employing 60,000 employees in the State of Connecticut, we were selected by an 1800 employee agency for high level expertise and customization. It previously conducted diversity training with disastrous results, creating greater animosity and divisiveness. It also was experiencing…

Rapid DEI F100 Culture Shift

A financial services’ industry leader set course to aggressively pursue emerging markets to build marketshare. Their most successful and largest revenue-producing sales group was charged with leading this endeavor. However, the sales group was largely homogeneous in gender and race and had rebuffed a need to diversify in staff composition to resemble their clients and…

Business Case for Shared Services

Three weeks prior to the Global Leadership Team Meeting, the Global CEO had announced his plan to dismantle the shared services structure they had formed a few years before, supporting 20 IBUs. The North America CEO felt the Shared Services Model was working effectively that it was worth a ‘fight’ to save it. Contacted by…