Working With ELLA (Employment-Labor Law Audit): An HR Audit Model

Why Should You Attend:

Numerous external forces and factors have had an impact on the demand for and scope of HR audits. In the global economy, human capital is becoming the single most important determinant of competitiveness, productivity, sustainability, and profitability. Increasingly, the organization’s human capital is being recognized as the source of innovation and a driver of business success. Thus to be effective in the global economy, your organization’s HR must be diagnostic, predictive, and action oriented. This provides the value of ELLA®

Additionally a confluence of economic, political, and social factors, including corporate scandals and increasing stockholder initiatives, have resulted in increased statutory and regulatory requirements, a call for greater transparency, and increased internal and external audit activity. This requires that increases the value of HR auditing, not only to reduce the risk of liability, but also to respond to growing list user needs.

This webinar is designed to help attendees respond to these requirements by providing them with an understanding and with a discussion of the nation’s leading HR auditing tool.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Gain an understanding of key ELLA® attributes
• Be able to identify and assess the strategic, tactical, and operational impact of key HR issues
• Learn the role of HR audits in measuring and communicating value
• Review the basic use of ELLA® in assessing human capital related risks
• Learn how ELLA® improves strategic and operational decision making
• Review ELLA® key findings in conducting HR audits

Who Will Benefit:

• HR professionals
• Managers and supervisors
• CFOs
• Internal auditors/external auditors
• Compliance officers
• Risk managers

Ronald Adler
CEO, Laurdan Associates Inc

With over 40 years of HR consulting experience, Ronald Adler is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a human resource management consulting firm that helps organizations enhance the value of their human capital and reduce their exposure to employment practices liability through human capital risk management.

Mr. Adler has served as a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to Bloomberg BNA, HR Magazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. His research findings have been used by the Federal Reserve Board, the EEOC, the National Conference of State Legislatures, EPLI carriers, and other international organizations. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on HR audits and is a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices risk assessment process.

As an adjunct professor at Villanova University, he teaches graduate courses on HR auditing and HR management. He is also a certified instructor on employment practices and insurance issues for The CPCU Society, has conducted continuing professional education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and has conducted continuing professional education courses for SHRM, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Consultants, the Maryland Advanced Tax Institute, and the Maryland CPA Society.

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. Additionally, Mr. Adler is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University.

Topic Background:

The ELLA® HR auditing process is an independent, objective, and systematic evaluation that provides a method of ensuring: 1) compliance and governance requirements are being met; 2) business and talent management objectives are being achieved; 3) human resource management risks are fully identified, assessed, and managed; and 4) the organization’s human capital adds value. ELLA® is designed to provide HR auditing activities that look behind and beyond the organization’s assertions of sound and proper HR management practices. ELLA® assesses the assumptions being made, benchmarks the organization’s processes and practices, and provides the necessary consultative services that helps the organization achieve its business goals and objectives.

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