Outsourcing should be about more than cutting costs
Outsourcing should not just be about cutting costs: re-designing processes and structures can help organisations meet strategic goals.
Personnel Today's special report on outsourcing investigates the strategic significance of outsourcing and the vital role played by HR. The report includes profiles of outsourcing initiatives at DC Leisure Management, Jones Lang LaSalle, KPMG and Vauxhall.
Focus on your core skills By Anthony Hesketh, lecturer in management, learning and leadership at Lancaster University Management School.
Reap the benefits Ross Wigham investigates HR's role in outsourcing, looking at the experiences of KPMG, Vauxhall and DC Leisure Management.
A win-win situation Ross Wigham finds out how property and money management company Jones Lang LaSalle benefited from outsourcing its recruitment function.
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Outsourcing executive selection, Outsourcing your payroll function and What are the pros and cons of outsourcing recruitment? XpertHR presents a range of in-depth content on outsourcing specific functions.
Outsourcing the employment relationship The rise of outsourcing could render the traditional employment relationship obsolete, in turn undermining the whole notion of human resource management. By Stephen Overell, writing in Personnel Today.
Middleman takes centre stage The trend for outsourcing is actually reducing efficiency as work gets passed around an ever-growing web of middlemen, argues Stephen Overell.
End-to-end outsourcing By Caroline Horn. From Personnel Today.
How to manage outsourcing partnerships Richard Houghton, managing director of Xchanging HR Services, explains why an outsourcing partnership could be just what you're looking for.
Opinions divided on value of outsourcing HR managers have mixed opinions of outsourcing within the profession, according to research by Reed Executive.
