Types of Organisation:
Cooperatives

H2R provides the growing number of cooperative organisations with a complete one-stop-shop that will enable them to both fulfil their legal responsibilities and create a productive working environment.

Module 1

Abeceder research shows that the average manager will spend sixty percent of their time dealing with employment related work and solving employee related problems.

Putting the Logic into Employee Management

Adopt a logical approach to employee management across your cooperative, regardless of size, and you ensure legislative compliance, adherence to policies and procedures, and gain the complete peace of mind of knowing that the correct action is being taken in the correct way, at the correct time, first time.    

Protecting the Company, and the Employees

  • The consequences of getting the HR side of organisational management wrong, are expensive, time consuming, and potentially disruptive

How H2R Helps

  • H2R uses logical processes and an intuitive user experience to deliver a time saving straight-forward approach to employee management

The Complex Side of Running a Cooperative

  • People are the most complex aspect of running a cooperative, so it is no surprise that they can consume sixty percent of a manager’s time

How H2R Helps

  • Combining H2R software with professional support provides a right first solution that enables managers to focus on organisational improvement

Successful HR in a Cooperative

  • We have used our experience of HR in a range of cooperatives around the world to identify how HR software can support the sector

How H2R Helps

  • H2R provides the structured information a HR professional needs, to work directly with managers to deliver a HR agenda, that closely supports the goals of the cooperative as a real HR business partner

Line Manager as HR Manager

  • We have also used our experience to identify what a line manager operating without readily available HR support needs and how HR support can help them

How H2R Helps

  • Managers in any cooperative regardless of size need a straight-forward way of ensuring that they are following organisational policies and procedures correctly and complying with the appropriate legislation.

How H2R Helps

H2R provides a comprehensive framework of modules which help to manage every aspect of the employer employee relationship from hiring to retiring. The combined H2R software and Abeceder professional support will create the complete peace of mind employee management solution that enables you to focus on developing your organisation and delivering key services

Recruitment

  • If a cooperative can get recruitment right, they will reduce the potential for employee related problems

How H2R Helps

  • Tools in H2R will help you to describe both the work that needs to be done and the person who is most likely to be a successful employee

Training

  • The growth of a cooperative is often determined by the rate at which employees can develop new skills

How H2R Helps

  • H2R enables a cooperative to link business plan objectives to training needs, and to manage every stage of the learning process

Performance Management

  • Employee performance management should review past activities to identify learning opportunities and match future activities to the cooperative’s objectives

How H2R Helps

  • H2R includes straight forward intuitive tools that enable you to create multi-level objectives, plan work activities and provide feedback to employees and volunteers

Employee Retention

  • Employee turnover is often disruptive, and recruitment is always expensive, but many cooperatives do not have an employee retention strategy

How H2R Helps

  • H2R helps you to identify why people work or volunteer, and to build links between the achievement of work objectives and the fulfilment of lifestyle aspirations

Reward and Recognition

  • Many cooperatives use a standardised approach to pay, benefits and recognition. It is easier to administer, but it may not motivate or reward employees

How H2R Helps

  • With H2R cooperatives can structure a comprehensive pay and benefits strategy. The H2R includes tools that help you identify the correct pay level for any role 

Absence and Attendance Management

  • Key to productivity is the proactive management of time keeping and attendance, but many cooperatives lack an effective way to achieve this.

How H2R Helps

  • H2R includes several tools to help a cooperative identify attendance or time-keeping problems or wellbeing issues and manage the process of implementing a solution

Employee Relations and Conflict Management

  • Poor relationships create problems, yet many cooperatives fail to effectively manage individual and collective employee relations

How H2R Helps

  • H2R includes the tools that make establishing, and maintaining good relationships, and dealing with problems easier, for any cooperative

Legal Compliance

  • Many cooperatives, regardless of their size, struggle to comply properly with the myriad of legislation which governs how they operate

How H2R Helps

  • H2R offers a complete legislation support package including, employment, health and safety, and every aspect of corporate law

Someone to Talk to

A HR professional with experience of working in several owner managed businesses, and of setting up a business that employed people will be available to answer your questions