Despite many advances, organisations have struggled to assess the performance of human capital management practice and the requisite ingredients to optimise employee productivity.

Similarly, HR functions have traditionally seen the world from an input based on activities rather than specified outcome based evaluation.

This state of affairs is the same whether organisations are public or private. Accordingly, we have intentionally designed the VB-HR™ Rating system to be applicable to both public and private sector organisations, down to business unit/Directorate level - specific language and underlying concepts within it will resonate equally powerfully.

The VB-HR™ model builds up a composite picture of organisation and HR effectiveness which assesses eight core drivers of people performance. These are:

The evaluation process looks at each of these HCM drivers from three perspectives: performance effectiveness, maintenance (i.e. efforts to renew), and risk, as well as detailed spend analysis and an extensive HR metric analysis.

The VB-HR™ Rating itself provides a means of demonstrating the impact of changes in investment or focus over time, in addition to providing a genuinely cross-sectoral means of comparison of human capital management practice in organisations.