Technical Specification

International School of Human Capital Management

SURVEY CONSTRUCT

The question statements have been designed so that a senior manager within the HR function is able to complete the overall survey within 30-35 minutes, with a minimum of reference. There are two further versions for line managers and employees which take between 15 to 25 minutes to complete.

Different types of multi-layered information are gathered: demographics and related aspects of human capital, data points that are linked to the HR 'Periodic Table' and a respondent assessment of trade-offs between organisational priorities.

The VB-HR™ Rating OS Inventory is split into 8 main sections containing 40 main questions. These sections contain:

- 25 main multi-part HCM questions
- 14 multi-part HCM data questions
- 1 client information questions
- 8-point rating scale

One of the features of the survey construct is the incorporation of internal validation algorithms - these check for repsonse consistency across related HCM sub-topics, indicating potential inconsistencies emerging within the response.

THREE LEVELS OF RATING

The VB-HR™ Rating contains the following core technical features:

• the data model consists of 93 HR sub-activities (inputs) categorised by 10 activity domains, individually linked to 3 outcome dimensions (EMR) and 8 HCM value drivers, creating a 3-dimensional matrix with nearly 22.5 million permutations.

• the data model consists of 93 HR sub-activities (inputs); each sub-activity additionally has a further 3-dimensional weighting, termed its 'OCF' factor, in calculating the score.

• the survey construct provides over 3000 data points to populate the various data engines.

• a further 2-dimensional outcome analysis of each HCM value driver is undertaken to provide a complementary perspective prior to the awarding of the overall rating

DATA PRIVACY

Given the nature of the data, the question-statements relate to information that is highly specific to an organisation. Accordingly, all data supplied will be held securely within the confidential VB-HR™ database, and will not under any circumstances be released to third parties outside VaLUENTiS without prior consent.

VaLUENTiS will utilise the data only to generate reports for the organisation or individual providing the specific data, and for high-level benchmarking at the aggregate level only (i.e. not at the level of specific question statements).

Clients will be offered a choice as to their inclusion on their respective rating in the publicised HCM Index (HCMi™)

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