Advance HR Audit Techniques

Why Should You Attend:

Surveys of CEOs and other business leaders repeatedly indicate an issue of critical concern: human capital related risks threaten an organization’s ability to seize business opportunities, negatively impact innovation and customer service, and constrain growth. At the same time, surveys of CFOs, general counsels, risk managers, and compliance experts report their ongoing concern for the impact of employment practices related liabilities-liabilities that represent a material risk, that can negatively affect the bottom line and valuation of the company, and that must be reported in public filings and notices.

In this environment, organizations must create a “risk-aware culture,” must be proactive in identifying, assessing, and managing human capital risks, must be able to link human capital risks and the benefits of HR management activities to financial statement, and must focus on the value created by human capital risk management.HR audits are increasingly playing an important role in this effort.

More than just checklists of do’s and don’ts, HR audit tools are evolving into a management process that provides assurances that

1. Compliance and governance requirements are being met;
2. Business and talent management objectives are being achieved;
3. HR activities are aligned with the organization’s strategic and operational objectives, business imperatives, and mission;
4. HR management related risks are fully identified, assessed, and managed;
5. HR related fraud is identified and controlled; and
6. The organization’s human capital adds value and makes the organization more competitive.

This webinar provides a discussion of critical HR audit activities, reviews the leading HR audit issues, and reviews the development of an HR audit plan.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• The strategic and operational importance of HR audits
• The critical components of HR audits
• Areas typically audited
• Internal controls
• HR audit RFPs
• The development of key performance and risk indicators
• The use of employee surveys, exit interviews, 360 surveys, and other tools
• The development of an HR audit plan

Who will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to:

• HR professionals
• CFOs, CROs, CCOs
• Internal auditors/external auditors
• Risk managers
• Operations managers

Instructor Profile:

Ronald Adler, president and CEO of Laurdan Associates, a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm that helps organizations create value thorough human capital risk management. Laurdan Associates specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, benchmarking and HR metrics, strategic HR, employee surveys, and unemployment insurance management issues, is an internationally recognized thought leader on HR audits. Mr. Adler has more than 40 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.

Adler is a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Bloomberg BNA, and other publications and newspapers across the country. His research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Federation of Independent Business, insurers, and international organizations.

Mr. Adler is a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices risk assessment tool, is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management and workplace issues, and leads the discussions on the HR Audit Group on Linkedin.

As an adjunct professor, Adler teaches a course on HR auditing and HR management in Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development. He is also a certified instructor on employment practices and insurance issues for The CPCU Society, has conducted sexual harassment training programs as an adjunct instructor for the Baltimore City Community College, has conducted continuing professional education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on “Assessing Employment and Personnel Policies,” and has conducted continuing professional education courses for SHRM, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Institute of Management Consultants.

Mr. Adler has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on unemployment insurance issues and before the U.S. Senate H.E.L.P. Committee on genetic discrimination in the workplace.

As a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Adler serves as a subject matter expert (SME) on HR metrics, serves on professional standards taskforces developing HR professional standards in human capital measurement and performance management, and serves as a consulting expert on workplace issues to SHRM’s legislative staff. Mr. Adler has contributed materials for The SHRM Academy and the SHRM Learning System, and has represented SHRM in meetings with the EEOC.

Mr. Adler is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He chairs the Maryland Chamber of Commerce’s UI Subcommittee and is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Labor Relations Committee.

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