SweetHUMAN RESOURCES
Role
"OHUSI" (I'm a huge Dave Hughes fan, so in my head I say this like Oh, Hughesy!)
O - Outsourcing
H - Human resources function
U - Using contractors
S - Strategic role
I - Interdependence
Influences
"STEELS"
S - Stakeholders
T - Technological
E - Economic
E - Ethics and CSR
L - Legal
S - Social
Processes
"ADMS" (I think of it as Adams)
A - Acquisition
D - Development
M - Maintenance
S - Separation
Strategies
"PaRTLy GRaDD" (I think of it as partly gradd, and then just lose all the vowels as well as the 'y')
P - Performance management
R - Recruitment (internal/external; general/specific skills)
T - Training and development (current/future)
L - Leadership style
G - Global (costs, skills, supply)
R - Rewards (monetary/non-monetary; individual/group; performance pay)
D - Design (ie job design; general or specific)
D - Dispute resolution
Effectiveness of Human Resource Management
Indicators
"What black" (again, it's important to remember which letters aren't part of the acronym)
W - Worker satisfaction
A - Absenteeism
T - Turnover
B - Benchmarking key varialbes
L - Levels of disputation
A - Accidents
C - Corporate culture