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High-performance business starts with a high-performance workforce. In todays business world, good people have emerged as the primary source of a significant and sustainable competitive advantage. It is increasingly important to understand and act on the interrelated complexities that lie within the people paradigm in your organisation - and beyond. Economics evolve, business imperatives vary, technologies come and go, but people remain the common denominator through all these changes. Not only are they the most difficult form of capital to secure, but also the most crucial factor for business success. Vuthani Bafazi will help you substantially increase productivity, market share and shareholder value by ensuring that you have the right people with the right skills in the right roles. We deliver workforce performance strategies that go beyond mere cost reduction to have a greater positive impact on a company's overall business and financial performance. We are also leading the way in providing outsourced human resource processes, going beyond mere cost saving to ensure our clients benefit from the most advanced thinking and capabilities.

Business Challenges Today, more than ever before, human capital-related issues are occupying the minds of business executives. Workforce demographics and global talent trends force companies to be more strategic and analytical about recruiting, engaging, deploying and retaining talent. People-related challenges that businesses face include:

The endless pressure to boost profitability and performance produces a continuous stream of improvements and changes that threaten to overwhelm the workforce. Sustaining strategy with limited talent directly affects an organisations competitive edge and profitability. Transforming the role of HR so that HR objectives are aligned with business strategy objectives. This is vital in ensuring organisations get maximum value from their HR function. People need aligning to meet business objectives. They need to know they are serving a purpose and have the resources required to meet expectations. Being an employer of choice becomes a business imperative as the skills shortage is exacerbated and power shifts from employer to employee. The shortage of technical skills has become more pronounced over the past few years and will continue to be a challenge.

Human Resources To assist our clients to develop, sustain and grow their multi-dimensional organisations and focus on their core business, we offer a range of customised HR products and services:

Strategic planning for business and human resources E-HR strategy, enablement and implementation

HR research & development (including benchmarking & best practice) Outsourcing of Human Resources Management and SLA's (full or in part) Payroll and personnel administration outsourcing (including Employee Self Service) Web Based Performance Management Systems Customised Manual Performance Management Systems Recruitment and Selection (including on-line database searches) Screening Psychometric testing Initial interviews ITC - Reference checks Recommendations Organisational design Job analysis, design & evaluation Employment equity design of policy and plans Management of labour solutions Career & succession planning Team Building Coaching and Mentoring

HR Outsourcing Experience the difference - your hassle free HR department. Experience the cost effectiveness of Vuthani Bafazi who could be your specialized outsourced HR department today. No more hassle in managing the people administration. Immediate access to specialist skills and services. Focus on your business and customer rather than on staff administration. Pay a fixed monthly fee for all your business' HR requirements including:

Payroll Generic of the Shelf - HR Policies, Procedures and contracts. HR and training administration Workplace skills plans Recruitment Management training and development Productivity improvement support Team building Industrial Relations

Training and Development

Vuthani Bafazi is passionate about integrating future needs and currently realities at personal, team and organisational levels. To meet our clients' business objectives and need for ROI we: Challenge current organisational paradigms to unleash the clients potential

Create customised learning experiences and programs

Make the learning experience fun to assist the transfer of learning Practice an ethic of continuous improvement and self development for our clients and ourselves Vuthani Bafazi is committed to the development and delivery of relevant learning solutions through personal and committed relationships with our clients that include pre and post delivery support and shared accountability for results. We form long-term partnerships with our clients and offer a wide range of experiential, outcomes based educational, training and development programs and make appropriate use of latest e-technology.

Alignment of learning strategies to business objectives Training / learning needs analysis Development of organisational learning plans

Programmes design, development and delivery utilizing latest technology (Including e-learning) Pre and post learning assessment Support of learning transfer via coaching and mentoring

Change Management

Vuthani Bafazi works in conjunction with process and system driven/led change. We offer a holistic integrated, solution and work with our clients to transform their business in terms of its people, processes and systems. We are involved in both business, process and people re-engineering, workflow design etc. based on new business process. We assist our client to think out of the box and map to new as opposed to existing processes. We facilitate and work through the Change management methodology in effecting "buy" in to the business and people processes changes. "Navigating the Waves of Change" Vuthani Bafazi has proven change methodology is at the centre of our approach to change. Supporting our methodology, are a variety of tools for use in the implementation of any type of change. While we certainly provide direct strategy and implementation consulting services to clients, we also can train and partner selected client change targets. Four main target groups have been identified. These include:

Change Consultants Change Champions Change Agents Managers of Change

Our highly skilled and experienced team and internal professionals understand how change affects human behaviour and how individuals react to change. Our focus is on maximizing our clients' investment in their people and ROI, and minimizing the risks associated with change by balancing the business needs and realities with the concerns and issues that people may have.

Process below:

Implement

Design

Analysis

Build

Changes Measure success Review Improve

Communications strategy Detailed Changed project plans Change leadership planning Specific change inventions Business processes as is / to be and gaps Supporting systems (where applicable)

Set up project team Identify and analyse stake holder Link businessand project vision Establish Change Readiness Develop a picture of "future" state Asses current state Identify GAP's

Structures Job outlines Rewards to sustain the new performance management measures Specific change interventions

Major focus areas in our methodology include:

Business envisioning and process mapping Communications Human Resources Change Education Training and Development Project team support

Performance Management

What is Performance Management? A formal management process for harnessing, directing, evaluating, measuring and rewarding human effort, competence and talent in realising an organisation's vision, mission and objectives. Principles that underlie Performance Management:

Agreed framework of planned goals, standards and competence requirements (agreement between manager and individual on expectations) Process (not just a systems of forms and procedures) it is the ACTIONS people take to achieve the delivery of results Shared understanding (individuals need to have a shared understanding about high level plans and what organisational objectives they are working towards Approach to managing and developing people (how employees work together and develop their skills and knowledge) Geared towards achievement (it is about job related success for the individuals so they can make the best use of their abilities) The process owned and driven by line managers

Vuthani Bafazi philosophy is illustrated below in a simplistic image:

HR Policies and Procedures

Vuthani Bafazi can assist clients by compiling the following Company Policys: Disciplinary Policies and procedures Grievance procedures Hours of work and overtime policy Leave policy and procedures Management of performance policy Recruitment policy Safety and security policy Sexual harassment policy Redeployment, retrenchment and dismissal based on operational requirements Smoking policy Staff development policy Poor performance policy Travel and reimburse policy and claims Termination of employment policy Employment Assistance Policy Training Policy Relocation Policies