COMPLIANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Human Resources is a complex management field. Consisting of a huge network of activities and functions, Human Resources refers to everything related to the employer/employee relationship. The needs, therefore of a Human Resources department require organization, analytical skills and the ability to multi-task. Allow Sigma to assist your organization in fulfilling these requirements through our audit, analysis, training and consulting services. We provide assistance with:
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Recruiting and Retention
Establishing the employment relationship begins with recruitment. Recruiting, interviewing and verifying employee information is costly and time consuming. But hiring the wrong person can be even more expensive, and it can hurt your business in other ways.
Sigma can help you to hire employees who are the best fit for your organization and reduce turnover. Our services include:
- Job description development
- Recruiting strategy
- Hiring process
- Pre-Employment Screening
- Behavior-based interviews
Once you've succeeded in obtaining that quality employee, let us help you keep your best people on board. In a recent survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, two of the top three reasons employees cited for leaving an organization were: Better compensation/benefits package and Poor Management. Sigma can help you:
- Establish employee retention practices
- Establish employee referral program
- Offer competitive benefits packages
- Offer flexible work arrangements
- Offer an Employee Assistance Program
- Offer employee discounts
- Establish a reward and recognition program
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Compensation Consulting
Never before has effective compensation played such a crucial role in business success. Pay too little, and retention, recruiting, morale and productivity all decline. Pay too much, and your overpayment diminishes your margins, a problem that compounds over time. We will work with you to devise concepts based on measures that focus employee behavior towards company success. Without exception, we will ensure that our recommendations are fiscally responsible and seamlessly aligned with other aspects of your total business strategy.
- Compensation surveys
- Job evaluation and organizational planning
- Design of incentive compensation plans, including management incentive plans, sales incentive plans and productivity improvement plans
- Review and evaluation of current compensation programs and practices with recommendations for improvement
- Development of performance appraisal programs
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Employee Policy and Handbook Development
When properly designed and implemented, an employee handbook/policy manual can be an employer's most useful human resource tool as well as protection against litigation. Sigma will customize Human Resource policies and procedures that serve as a roadmap for addressing workplace issues including workplace safety, leaves of absence, standards of conduct, harassment, progressive discipline and problem resolution. The project will involve two major steps:
- Step 1 - Handbook Assessment
The existing handbook/policy manual (if any) will be reviewed for content to ensure that all necessary topics are covered, and that information provided is consistent with any additions or changes to federal, state or local regulations.
- Step 2 - Collaboration
After a full assessment has been conducted, our consultant will meet with essential HR management to discuss policy and procedure additions and/or revisions. The goal is to design a handbook that is consistent with the unique characteristics and needs of the your organization.
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Harassment and Discrimination Prevention
Many companies have written policies prohibiting harassment and/or discrimination, but few have an oversight of management to ensure compliance with equal employment opportunity obligations and Title VII regulations.
Let Sigma provide your company with:
- Policy development
- Employee and Manager training
- Incidence Review, Investigation and Reporting
- Strategic Consulting
- One-on-one behavior modification training
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Training and Development
When your employees have the skills to provide quality service and innovation, everyone benefits. Allow Sigma to help develop your people through:
- Needs assessment
- Custom design
- Corporate university
- Custom design
- Training delivery
- Interview Skills
- Performance Review Training
- Progressive Discipline Termination
- Counseling and Coaching
- Many more!
- Leadership development
- Executive coaching
- Career planning
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Workplace Safety
Sigma can help your organization comply with safety-related regulations and create a safer workplace for your team. We can help you develop:
- Safety plans for office environments
- Safety plans for medical and dental offices
- Safety and ergonomic training
- Illness and injury prevention programs
- Worker's compensation case review and management
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance Services
HIPAA regulations can be complicated and far-reaching. The deadline for Security compliance is April 21, 2005 - make sure that your company is ready. Also, with the Privacy Rule effective for most entities for over a year now, it is a good time to review those procedures to ensure full compliance.
An audit will include:
- Complete review of all privacy policies
- Complete review of use and disclosure procedures
- Inspection of HIPAA training efforts
- Inspection of privacy programs
- Provide guidance on remediation of conflicts with HIPAA compliance
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General Human Resource Compliance
Reduce your legal liability by ensuring your organization has the required policies and procedures in place.
- Compliance with state and federal laws
- Assessments of:
- 401(k) Process
- COBRA Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Workers' compensation claims and costs
- ADA
- EEOC Compliance
- I-9 Documentation
- Performance Review Documentation
- Training and certification record keeping
- FMLA Compliance
- FLSA Compliance
- Establishment of policies and procedures
- Drug policy creation and implementation
- Paid-Time off policies
- Orientation Presentations
- Progressive Discipline Procedures
- Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Policies
- Leaves of absence
- Grievance Procedures
- Employee handbooks
- Comprehensive Human Resource Audits
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Human Resource Audit
Sigma can deploy a comprehensive audit that will assess your current Human Resource functions and processes to evaluate compliance, strengths and improvement opportunities. You will be provided a clear report of what policies need to be developed by law or best practice, what processes should be created to support HR services, and areas of HR development that will add value to your organization.
Your Human Resources functions will be evaluated using the following four-step process:
- Step 1 - Definition
Define legal requirements, traditional HR responsibilities, and Hospital initiatives imposed on the department.
- Step 2 - Assessment
Assess each of the above-defined activities, seeking concrete evidence to support or refute each (such as policies, surveys, data collection, benchmarking, statistics, etc.)
- Step 3 - Analysis
Results from the first two steps will be reviewed to find the HR department's strengths and weaknesses so that positive steps may be taken to improve the effectiveness of HR's functions.
- Step 4 - Goals
Goals will be formulated, with management and staff input to identify areas in which focus will be directed in the future. Setting goals involves:
- Maintaining current policies and practices that are beneficial to the organization; and
- Developing improved policies and practices.
Steps will be taken to ensure that goals are realistic, the resources are available to meet them, and that senior management delivers input and support.
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