5 Best HR Metrics To Strengthen Business Objectives

Here are five of the best HR metrics to help you to improve your business’ strategic objectives:

  1. Employee Satisfaction

While this is one of the more difficult metrics to gauge, understanding and analyzing employee satisfaction is vital to employee engagement and business performance. Measuring employee satisfaction, and then taking the necessary steps to increase it, is essential to attracting and retaining, and engaging the high quality talent that is needed to drive a successful business. Satisfaction metrics can be measured through employee engagement surveys.

  1. Turnover Costs

Do you know how much money you lose each time an employee separates from your organization? There are significant costs to the business every time an employee leaves. The costs of recruiting external candidates, productivity losses due to vacant roles, and training new employees can really add up. When calculating turnover costs, some expenses, like the cost of job advertising or COBRA continuation, are easier to determine than others. Productivity loss and employee morale issues may be more challenging to determine, but are essential for understanding the effect of employee turnover on your business.

  1. Quality of Hire

In addition to cost per hire, which tells you how much it costs your company when you hire a new employee, the quality of hire metric is even more important. While it is not an easy metric to determine, it provides a great deal of insight into your recruiting function. To calculate quality of hire, take a look at the average job performance rating of your new hires, the percent of new hires reaching satisfactory productivity within a standard time frame, the retention of new hires after one year, and the amount of recognition that new hires received.

  1. Turnover Rate Differences Between High and Low Performers

Compare employee separations of high performing and low performing employees by looking at their performance review ratings.  Evaluating the turnover differences between your high and low performers will help you to determine if there are any evident patterns that should be addressed. For example, are a good percentage of your high performers leaving?

  1. Employee Evaluation Rating Compared to Salary

In order to stay one step ahead of your voluntary separations, and reduce your turnover costs, consider measuring the performance ratings of your high performing employees against the average salary for their position. Ensuring that your top performing employees are paid above the average market salary for their position will help you to stay competitive and retain your high performers.

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