Human Resources
Reduce Employee Turnover, Increase Engagement, and Build a Highly Effective Team
- Is your company experiencing difficulty attracting or retaining employees?
- Are you investing in development programs for employee growth?
- Do your employees feel empowered, included, and motivated?
Aside from recruitment and onboarding, many manufacturers fail to focus on their most valuable resource: people. However, when companies invest in people development and optimizing human resources (HR), all areas of the business improve. The Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) at Georgia Tech offers customized HR consulting services to help you maximize talent management through attraction, retention, and a culture of innovation.
HR Wellness Assessment
Gain a clear, honest picture of where your HR function stands today and what it will take to drive real business results tomorrow.
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Research shows that organizations operating at the highest levels of HR maturity are significantly more likely to outperform peers on financial success, innovation, and employee engagement. An assessment is the essential first step to knowing exactly where you are, where the gaps are, and how to close them.
Our assessment measures your HR maturity against a four-level framework, which includes Level 1: Transactional Compliance, Level 2: Efficient Service Delivery, Level 3: Solution-Centric, and Level 4: Problem-Oriented. GaMEP will use the assessment data to create a customized summary report with employment laws and record retention requirements relevant to the size of your organization, programs most frequently required by OSHA, and common/recommended HR metrics.
GaMEP will:
- Provide a template for self-assessment
- Conduct an onsite audit
- Assess current HR structure and function
- Identify gaps
- Provide a detailed summary report
By completing an HR wellness assessment, you will:
- Identify gaps in best practices
- Receive a recommended action roadmap
- Take the first step toward a more effective HR structure and function
HR Mentoring and Consulting
Elevate your HR function by building the skills, strategies, and solutions needed to move beyond transactional work and drive business impact.
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GaMEP’s HR and leadership development project managers will coach and mentor your HR professionals, providing expert guidance on HR operating models and technology. This support enables HR to function like a high-impact internal consulting firm aligned with business outcomes.
GaMEP will:
- Provide coaching to your HR professionals
- Develop customized projects to improve organizational effectiveness
- Consult on HR technology and AI enablement
By utilizing GaMEP’s HR mentoring and consulting services, you will:
- Establish a high-impact HR consulting function
- Drive growth and transformation
- Increase measurable business value through HR
Compensation Market Data Analysis
Evaluate how your organization’s pay compares to external benchmarks to ensure salaries remain competitive and equitable.
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GaMEP’s compensation market data analysis evaluates how an organization’s pay compares to external benchmarks to ensure salaries remain competitive and equitable. It highlights gaps between internal pay and market trends, guiding decisions on salary structures, adjustments, and talent strategy.
GaMEP will:
- Complete research utilizing a comprehensive compensation management software, based on data reported directly from HR professionals
- Provide benchmarked description to match with your roles and scope(s)
- Run reports and track your description to benchmarked descriptions
- Aid in the development in salary structures
By completing a market data analysis, you will:
- Set fair compensation ranges
- Maintain compliance
- Attract and retain talent with fair, data-driven compensation strategy
Behavior-Based Interviewing
Implement behavior-based interviewing to provide a structured approach to candidate evaluation that uses questions about past experiences to predict future job performance.
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Work with GaMEP’s HR consultants to develop a best-practice interviewing framework, utilizing questions that assess experience, role fit, cultural fit, and interest to ensure a well-rounded evaluation of each candidate. Grounded in the principle that prior behavior is the best indicator of future behavior in similar situations, this approach references past experiences, not just a candidate’s resume, to determine how they might perform and thrive in a role.
GaMEP will:
- Equip interviewers with the ability to craft warm, concrete, and role-relevant questions
- Help interviewers set clear selection benchmarks from the outset, removing opportunities for subjective or biased impressions to influence candidate evaluation and selection
- Develop a consistent interview framework that will result in improved candidate experience and hiring decisions
By implementing behavior-based interviewing, you will:
- Conduct more meaningful interviews
- Reduce bias in decision-making
- Standardize the evaluation process
- Improve hiring outcomes
Employment Law Compliance
Ensure compliance with employment laws, including those governing hiring, wages, worker classification, contracts, workplace harassment policies, and statutory benefits.
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Failure to comply with employment law can result in unpleasant consequences, including back taxes, regulatory penalties, and legal liability. However, keeping up with evolving regulations can be difficult. GaMEP can help your HR team invest in proactive monitoring of regulatory changes, ensure accurate worker classification, and build compliance expertise to protect both the organization and its employees.
GaMEP will:
- Identify federal and state laws that are applicable to your organization
- Provide up-to-date regulations and recordkeeping requirements
- Develop customized learning based on your organization’s needs
By utilizing GaMEP’s employment law compliance services, you will:
- Minimize legal and compliance risk
- Ensure accurate documentation and reporting
- Build your team’s compliance expertise
Leadership Development
Strengthen leadership capabilities across your organization through coaching, assessments, and development programs that drive engagement, collaboration, and business results.
Culture and Engagement Surveys
Improve employee engagement and organizational culture through simple but frequent employee listening surveys that increase participation and deliver faster, more actionable insights.
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Improve employee engagement and organizational culture through simple but frequent employee listening surveys that increase participation and deliver faster, more actionable insights.
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GaMEP can help you create a comprehensive listening strategy that combines active surveying with passive data signals, ensuring HR and managers receive a continuous flow of real-time sentiment data across the employee life cycle.
GaMEP will:
- Provide access to 30 validated surveys that span the employee life cycle
- Consult on the development of a comprehensive listening strategy
- Help leaders develop data-driven actionable solutions
By utilizing GaMEP’s customized culture and engagement survey services, you will:
- Identify and address cultural problems
- Use data to drive meaningful action
- Reduce employee turnover rates with data-driven retention solutions
ACT WorkKeys Certification Center
Develop essential workplace skills through ACT WorkKeys assessments, curriculum, and career readiness certification to measure competencies, support employee development, and enhance job performance and advancement opportunities.
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The ACT WorkKeys curriculum is a proven tool for helping individuals acquire skills critical to workplace success. GaMEP’s certified consultants will help you implement WorkKeys assessments and obtain the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). This evidence-based credential is earned by successfully completing ATC WorkKeys assessments for applied math, graphic literacy, and workplace documents.
GaMEP will:
- Provide your organization with unlimited ACT WorkKeys subscriptions
- Help you implement the curriculum
- Certify your location to assess employees
By implementing ACT WorkKeys, you will:
- Offer a learning and development curriculum in essential workplace skills
- Help employees gain the skills needed to advance their careers
- Fill critical roles within your organization by developing existing employees
Note: This service is coming soon! Contact us for more information.
Customized HR Services
Optimize your workforce through tailored HR solutions that strengthen business practices, improve organizational effectiveness, and align talent strategies with business goals.
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Every organization faces unique workforce challenges that require more than off-the-shelf solutions. GaMEP’s customized HR services provide expert guidance and practical support to help manufacturers enhance talent management, strengthen employee experiences, improve HR processes, and build sustainable people strategies. Whether you need assistance with workforce planning, retention, performance management, succession planning, employee relations, policy development, compensation, or organizational design, our team works alongside you to develop solutions that fit your business needs and objectives.
GaMEP will:
- Assess HR needs and opportunities
- Develop customized HR solutions
- Optimize HR processes and technology
By utilizing GaMEP’s customized HR services, you will:
- Align HR with business goals
- Reduce employee turnover
- Improve employee engagement
- Increase HR effectiveness and efficiency
- Strengthen workforce performance
- Support long-term organizational growth
Human Resources Training & Events
GaMEP hosts events and training courses designed specifically for manufacturers.
View our upcoming events and open enrollment training sessions below.
Looking for customized training options? Contact your region manager for more information.
Building Better Leaders with Self-awareness, Self-control, and Empathy
Developing Metrics that Matter to Motivate Performance
Facilitating Effective Employee Training
Turning Conflict into Collaboration for Manufacturing Leaders
This 90-minute course equips manufacturing professionals with the tools to recognize, understand, and resolve conflict constructively.
Professional Communication Pitfalls for Manufacturing Leaders
Leadership Essentials for Manufacturing
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