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Personnel executives are often called upon to perform the duties of an internal consultant for top management in an organization. Internal consulting has become more common in recent years, with consultants involved in management disciplines from strategic planning to information technology. The first challenge for an internal consultant is to understand the company's culture, personality, and environment. New consultants should make sure they can act without having to carry out the hidden goals of management. Consultants should be practical in their recommendations, realizing that drastic changes are unlikely to be accepted. The main drawback in having an internal rather than external consultant involves the potential for loss of objectivity and clear thinking, since the consultant's future will be determined by upper management.
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Successfully managing turnover of employees can be challenging for personnel professionals, but developing a turnover plan can help a firm predict and control employee turnover. Steps in the plan include: assessing present personnel needs; predicting future needs; and constructing survival curves. It is also critical that the plan be monitored, and one way to do this is to conduct a 'hurt' analysis which involves: ranking employees based on their organizational value; dividing the report into quartiles; and developing hurt factors for each quartile. The hurt factor requires managers to analyze turnover records as a whole and to determine economic values for employees when managing turnover rates, instead of relying on subjective data.
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Computerized time-management systems give personnel managers increased benefits over the old time clock systems. Computerized systems enable workers to check in or out using identification cards which are machine-readable. The system can quickly generate information such as giving a supervisor a summary of everyone absent on a particular shift. The advantages of computerized time recording systems are that they reduce errors, save time, and conserve money in payroll processing.
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