Human Resources Investment Center
The HR Investment Center aims to help hospitals maximize return on human capital investments by providing an exhaustive set of services including workforce surveys, benchmarking, best practice scans, and online HR tools. Our aspiration is to create a collaboration of the nation’s most progressive HR executives, those who are transforming their departments and their role in the health care industry.
Sample of Recent Research
Hardwiring Common Purpose: Driving Individual Accountability for Organizational Goals
Includes practices for leveraging components of the performance management process to drive execution and implementation of organizational strategy.
- The gap between strategy and action
- Building a strategic accountability infrastructure
- Creating compelling incentives
Succession Management: Ensuring Seamless Leadership Transitions
Outlines a hospital-relevant succession management process, applying the lessons of corporate America and early health care adopters. This study includes member-ready implementation tools, worksheets, and sample documents:
- Pinpointing future leadership gaps
- Assessing bench strength
- Selecting the right development opportunities
- Perfecting the onboarding process
Enhancing Hospital Diversity: Targeting Program Upgrades
Discusses best-in-class enhancements to the standard elements of hospital diversity programs, with case profiles illustrating each enhancement. In addition to supporting documents and tools, this briefing also includes a self-audit to help readers assess their institution’s readiness to pursue diversity program upgrades.
- Case for heightened investment
- Most promising program innovations
- Profiles from market leaders
Example Tools and Resources for Members
Semi-annual Benchmarking Report
- Tracking and analysis of six high-value HR metrics selected and shared by over 200 member institutions
- Reports segment data by organizational demographics
On-Demand Survey Tools
- Web-based tools enabling members to replicate past and current workforce surveys with their own employees
- Customized results report with comparisons to national survey benchmarks
Online Best Practice Compediums
Easily searchable collections of hospital and health system best practices featured in past Advisory Board research presentations, including:
- Controlling Premium Labor Costs
- Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Development
- Employee engagement