Organizational Development Organizational Design and Job Analysis Talent Management Recruitment and Retention Interim HR Staffing Strategic HR Planning Company Sponsored Benefit Plans Change Management

Organizational Development
Organizational development is the process through which an organization develops the internal capacity to most efficiently and effectively provide its mission work and to sustain itself over the long term.  Additionally, organizational development (OD) is a strategy intended to change the beliefs, attitudes, values, and structure of an organization so that they can better adapt to new technologies, markets, and challenges.

The development of your organization particularly, how you manage change impacts the success of your business.  With the expertise of AstraAdvantage your organization can develop a planned effort, organization-wide, managed from the top, to increase organizational effectiveness and health.  These efforts are vital to the success of any new or existing strategy implemented to help increase awareness and adherence to company values and goals. >> top

Organizational Design and Job Analysis
Organizational design involves the creation of roles, processes, and formal reporting relationships in an organization. With AstraAdvantage’s team of professionals you can gain extensive research background in your specific industry to help guide you through what can be an overwhelming process. Our team will help distinguish between the two phases in an organizational design process: Strategic grouping, which establishes the overall structure of the organization (its main sub-units and their relationships), and Operational design, which defines the more detailed roles and processes.

Secondaly, we can assist your company with job analysis documentation. Job Analysis is a process to identify and determine in detail the particular job duties and requirements and the relative importance of these duties for a given job. Job Analysis can be further defined as process where judgements or observations are made about data collected on a job.

Let AstraAdvantage’s expert consultants help to define a job domain, write a job description, create performance appraisals, selection and promotion, training needs assessment, compensation, and organizationalal analysis/planning. >> top

Talent Management
Talent management is the process of developing and fostering new workers through onboarding, developing and keeping current workers, attracting highly skilled people to come work for your company, and driving company performance at the individual level.

AstraAdvantage offers a suite of Talent Management Solutions

AstraAdvantage’s professional consultants will help your company strengthen its talent management process and create a stronger workforce.  Our expert consultants will guide your company to be strategic and deliberate in how you source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization.  These decisions are often driven by a set of organizationalal core competencies as well as position-specific competencies that may include knowledge, skills, experience and personal traits.  >> top

Recruitment and Retention
Finding the right people – and then holding on to them – is central to any HR strategy. With AstraAdvantage’s talent acquisition and management solutions, we can provide your organization with the processes, technology and expertise to find, hire, engage, motivate and reward the best candidates for your organization. Whether your human resources needs are recruiting automation, screening services, human capital management or rewards and recognition, AstraAdvantage has the solutions to optimize your company's investment in its people. >> top

Interim HR Staffing
As a part of our professional consulting services, AstraAdvantage’s interim HR professionals are always ready to help your company through any situation. Whether it’s to fill-in for a staff member on leave, to perform a special project, or to play an important leadership role for an extended period, AstraAdvantage can help. >> top

Strategic HR Planning
Compensation management is an integral part of managing an organization and contributes to the overall success of the organization in several ways. To be effective, managers must appreciate the value of competitive pay as well as human resources within the company. In an effort to maintain pay levels that attract and retain quality employees, management must have an investment view of payroll costs while also recognizing the need to manage them. >> top

AstraAdvantage can help you to simplify the compensation management process by linking compensation directly to employee performance and standardizing your pay practices throughout your business. AstraAdvantage allows your management team to have visibility and control over salary planning and allows you to:

• Gain centralized access to dynamic worksheets and multiple report formats
• Access the data you need to make decisions quickly and ensure that key HR initiatives are achieved throughout the organization
• Always meet compliance requirements >> top

Company Sponsored Benefit Plans
Employers face many challenges when it comes to attracting and retaining qualified employees. Providing a valuable retirement package in the form of defined benefits and/or defined contributions may help an employer to garner the additional skill sets they need and entice employees to their organization.

AstraAdvantage’s unique team of HR professionals and licensed insurance advisors bring a complement of perspectives to identify alternatives, recommend plan designs, negotiate carrier costs, and provide superior customer service to your company. Our Benefits Design Service approaches your organization holistically. We work with your decision makers to understand the company’s goals and priorities when formulating benefit-plan designs for each year. We provide sufficient lead time to consider alternative plan designs. Giving due consideration to industry-specific and geographic norms, we help establish the respective shares of these plan costs to be paid by the employer and employees, We keep abreast of the latest trends in healthcare benefits in an effort to provide you with up-to-date options, including Consumer-Driven Healthcare strategies that may include high deductible plans coupled with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs). >> top

Change Management
Current research finds that change management, when not introduced at the beginning of a project, usually falls upon the HR department and leaves them stuck trying to make the project work. AstraAdvantage can play a vital role in assisting your company in managing both employee and managerial resistance to change and helping the team succeed.

Research also indicates that organizations undergo major change approximately once every three years and smaller changes within organization occur continually. AstraAdvantage can help your management team to introduce and manage change to ensure the organization objectives of change are met. AstraAdvantage can also help your managers ensure that they gain the commitment of their employees, both during and after implementation. >> top