Your Vendor Relationships

With what you have learned about collecting data and the technology involved, it should be clear that the relationship between HR and their vendors is vital to obtaining the data that you need. Describe three proactive steps the human resource professional can take to ensure productive relations with vendors.

Analytics and Data

• Pease, G. (2015). Optimize your greatest asset—your people: How to apply analytics to big data to improve your human capital investments. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Chapter 4, “From Data to Action,” pages 41–50. This reading provides a clear approach and model to turning data into action.

Surveys

• Levenson, A. R. (2014). Employee surveys that work: Improving design, use, and organizational impact. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
  • These readings provides an overview of the purpose and approaches to employee surveys.
    • Chapter 1, “Goals: Define a Clear Survey Purpose,” pages 14–18. This reading provides an overview of the purpose of and provides approaches to employee surveys.
    • Chapter 2, “Objectives—The Pros and Cons of Focusing on Employee Engagement,” pages 19–21.

Approaches to Building a Solid HR–Vendor Relationship

• Kasson, E. G. (2016). Building trust. HRMagazine, 61(1), 24–28,30.
• Moss, D. (2017, June 19). How to get the most out of your vendors: Creating and maintaining strong relationships can minimize trouble spots. HRNews.

Vendors and HRMS (Human Resource Management System)

• Foxall, D. (2019). HRMS vs HRIS vs HCM: What’s the difference? Retrieved from https://www.hrmsworld.com/hrms-vs-hris-vs-hcm.html
• Zielinski, D. (2018, May 22). HRMS vendors focus on the employee experience. HRNews.