HR Services

Recruitment, Selection & Resourcing Talent

We can help you to anticipate the required human capital for your organization and the planning to meet those needs. This is a critical business consideration that contributes directly to an organization’s ability to build a skilled workforce and achieve its goals.

We can help you to manage the overall process of identifying, attracting, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing suitable candidates for jobs within an organization. We consider the nature of your business, working practices, systems, processes, and industry norms. Are you looking for exceptional staff? Let’s Talk!

Learning and Development | Employee Training

Learning and Development are intended to ensure that employees have the knowledge, skills, and experience to fulfill individual and organizational needs and ambitions.

We can identify learning and development needs at a range of levels, and leverage the results to enable greater business performance.

We facilitate training for all categories of staff. Our training programs provide managers, and senior leaders with evidence-led recommendations and practical tools to transform the organizations.

HR Outsourcing & Payroll Management

We already have a contractual agreement with clients who transferred the management of, and responsibility for, their HR functions to our company.

We act as an employer of record for employees operating in support of your organization in Uganda. Our company can recruit, and contract staff on behalf of your company, following the guidelines and job descriptions as provided.

Our cost is always fair and reasonable and shows efficient use of resources. We always share a cost breakdown for the implementation of their solution for your organization in Ugandan Shillings (UGX). The key areas include:

• Setup fees cover the cost of legally onboarding employees including the construction of the local employment contract, complete set up of in-country payroll, registration with the local authorities, and ensuring compliance with relevant tax codes
• Payroll and HR services
• Social Security Registration Services (if applicable)
• Agency fee
• VAT (if applicable)
• Miscellaneous (bank fees, legal fees, etc.)

Performance Management and Organizational Performance

We can help you to create a culture that encourages the continuous improvement of individuals’ skills, behaviors, and contributions to the organization. It’s a key part of the relationship between staff and managers.

We create a process of ensuring that a set of activities and outputs meets an organization’s goals effectively and efficiently.

We help you set clear objectives, measure performance, and employee contribution, and drive skills development. We integrate performance management into your day-to-day business operations so it becomes part of how you work. We can also train you on performance management, and appraisal, and how to conduct 360-degree feedback surveys.

Developing Your HR Strategy

A Human Resource strategy will be your overall plan for managing the human capital to align it with your business activities.

An HR strategy is an integral part of engaging people to achieve corporate goals, create an attractive work environment and a strong organizational culture. The Human Resource strategy sets the direction for all the key areas of HR, including hiring, performance appraisal, development, and compensation.

We can help you develop an HR strategy that is aligned with and helps you deliver your company strategy. We are aware that each organization is unique in terms of challenges, opportunities, and people. We consider all aspects of an HR framework in developing a robust HR strategy.

Developing Your HR Policy & Procedure | Employee Handbook

An HR policy provides the necessary framework to manage people effectively in any organization.  It is sometimes also known as an employee manual, staff handbook, or company policy, and procedure manual is a book that you give to your employees.

We develop it to provides ‘the rules that define how an organization operates daily in respect to its people. Procedures describe how to carry out or implement policies fairly and transparently.

At Houston Executive Consulting, we develop tailored HR policies covering all aspects of the employment lifecycle from attracting and recruiting talent through to exit. We design it in such a way that will help you to comply with the labor legislation of Uganda

Job Evaluation and Grading

We follow a systematic way of determining the value/worth of a job in relation to other jobs in your organization. We ensure that there is a systematic comparison between jobs to assess their relative worth to establish a rational pay structure. It helps us to compare job roles internally and externally.

Our experts have extensive experience in developing job descriptions for a variety of job roles across numerous industry sectors and develop grading structures based on widely used job evaluation methodologies.

Employee Rewards & Benefits

Employee benefits are the ‘perks’ an employer offers to attract and retain employees, contribute towards improving well-being, and enhancing staff engagement. The main purpose is to attract and keep people, contribute towards improving wellbeing and encourage required behaviors, achievements, values, and skills.

Rewards are also good for your business to recognize staff contribution. We can help you to achieve the most effective reward packages. These support the business strategy, the staff wants, and the organization’s purpose, culture, and performance, fairly and consistently.

We can do external benchmarking and internal salary alignment. Whether you are looking for performance-based reward packages or incentive schemes, we will help your business build and implement a comprehensive compensation and benefits framework.

HR Surveys (Employee Opinion, Salary Surveys & Employee Satisfaction Surveys)

An employee satisfaction survey is a powerful survey that Human Resource Managers can use to understand the level of satisfaction of the employees. The best way to measure, analyze, and gain insight into the health of your organization is through the employee satisfaction survey.

Our company is specialized in designing the survey, interpreting and communicating the results, and demonstrating to the organization that the feedback has been taken seriously.

The three most common types of employee surveys include employee opinion and satisfaction surveys, employee culture surveys, and employee engagement surveys.

• Employee opinion and satisfaction surveys measure employee views, attitudes, and perceptions of their organization (also known as “climate surveys”).
• An employee culture survey measures the point of view of employees and is designed to assess whether it aligns with that of the organization or its departments.
• Employee engagement surveys measure employees’ commitment, motivation, sense of purpose, and passion for their work and organization.