Human capital strategy includes a variety of strategic work in the HR domain, such as defining a corporate culture, organizational design, setting up a people strategy that supports key pillars in the business, as well as the design of HR-related strategies in the area of diversity, recruitment and talent management among others.
Compensation & benefits, a segment also known as total rewards, looks at all aspects of employee compensation and benefits from base and variable pay to bonus schemes and other secondary benefits across the entire organization – from board level to employees on the shop floor. The discipline also includes pensions / retirement consulting, and advisory services tied to health and welfare.
Organizational change encompasses the people side of change, aimed at successfully guiding and embedding changes in organizational structure, ways of working, or cultural changes within an enterprise. Change management stands at the heart of the service area, spanning advisory expertise to tools and interventions, with leadership alignment, stakeholder management, change interventions and cultural management being the main offerings. Organizational change services can be sold as standalone offerings by consultancies. However, they are typically bundled into larger functional transformations to safeguard the people side of change.
The HR function area focuses on all activities related to improving the functioning of the human resource department. Offerings vary from developing and implementing an HR target or delivery model, to the implementation of HR systems and technologies, or other HR transformations that boost processes and organizational efficiency.
Talent management encompasses all activities required to recruit, retain and develop talent, as well as establishing the right structure and processes to ensure that professionals can perform optimally. Key propositions include strategic workforce planning – the science to anticipate on present and future human capital needs by matching business goals with HR data – recruitment & retention, workforce effectiveness and performance management.
Through the rise of data and new technologies, HR analytics has grown into a full-fledged service area within HR consulting. HR analytics focuses on applying analytic processes to the human capital spectrum, with the key objective of adding insights and value to HR activities.
The Learning & Development service line, also referred to as training & development, is concerned with activities aimed at improving the performance of individuals and groups. The scope ranges from organizational and competency development across leadership, departments and functions to support the training and education needs of individuals. Learning & Development also includes the soft side of development, such as coaching and mentoring, as well as the technological side of training, such as the development and implementation of learning management systems.
Lastly, HR technology is the field that specializes in all systems and tools used in the HR department, including large ERP modules like SAP, Oracle or Microsoft, and more niche solutions as per functional domain.