Improve staff costs with management consulting services

While staff is the most important asset of any company, managing the workforce is one of the most time consuming and costly aspects of doing business. By outsourcing your human resources to management consultive services, you can save time and money on staffing without giving up control.

How do management consulting services work?

Essentially, your staff is employed by an external organisation, which manages the HR aspects of their employment.

"The day-to-day management of those employees is still up to the business," says Graeme Haycroft, owner and founder of Haycroft Workplace Solutions. "But we take care of wages, WorkCover, superannuation, and deal with issues like unfair dismissal.

"As we see it, the business owner gets all the good bits of the employment equation and we get all the onerous bits."

Managing your staff

While you select the workforce and direct employees at the worksite, the management consulting firm takes the following tasks off your hands:

• Employment administration - payroll, time and attendance records, superannuation, sick leave, holiday pay
• Employer responsibilities like WorkCover, OH&S and unfair dismissal
• Recruitment to help you find the right staff
• Reference checks
• Contract drafting
• Induction documentation and programs
• Documenting workplace policies and procedures
• Performance measurement, assessments and management
• Training and development

Stop paying penalty rates

Businesses operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, can make significant cost savings by employing staff through a management consulting firm.

"Businesses operating 9-5 Monday to Friday probably can't be helped by us because they pay award wages and there are no penalty rates or overtime," says Graeme.

"But for companies working in transport, hospitality, retail or manufacturing, the advantage is that we provide flat rate conditions. The employees we supply can be paid the same rate on a Saturday or Sunday as a Monday or Tuesday."

Improving office productivity, cutting costs

If your business has assets that sit idle because employing an operator is too costly, management consulting may offer a solution.

"If you can use your capital, like a truck, for 80 hours a week instead of 40, your productivity doubles, but your capital cost remains the same," says Graeme.

Boosting staff control

Small businesses are time poor. Outsourcing your HR gives you more time to focus on managing your staff and growing your business.

The infrastructure and expense of operating your own HR department is borne by a professional employment organisation, thereby reducing your operating costs.

Further, because these duties are performed by trained experts who are contractually obliged to provide a high level of service, you don't have to worry about compliance with state and federal employment laws.

Working for your workforce

Phone a management consulting firm today to find out how you can boost productivity and cut costs by getting a specialist to manage the HR aspects of your workforce.

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