What are the most important HR measures for European organisations? The seventh "HR Barometer" gives information about this topic.
The "HR Barometer" for 2012 (gathered of AON Hewitt on behalf of the European Club for Human Resources) gives a picture which you might know from your own organisation: new employees shall be hired, promising junior employees shall be bond and managers shall be encouraged. Alone, the financial resources are missing. 38 % of the respondents suffer from cost pressure and these are obviously more than those who responded at the survey that they have difficulties with respect to finding new talents.
If you look at the short-term measures that have top-priority for the interviewed managers, you basically meet "old friends":
- execution of learning and further education programs (69 %)
- - increasing appreciation (49 %)
- - increasing motivation by individual, performance based bonus payments (40 %)
Newer subjects, like the extension of the scope for decison-making and in connection herewith the promotion of organisational thinking, obviously have not established as a subject of personnel development on a broader base.
Long-term subjects - so the interviewed organisations - are leadership development (46 %), establishment of employee commitment (37 %) and the binding of talents (37 %).
What is more, 46 % of the interviewed HR departments work on a closer connection to strategic decisions in their organisations.