Find out how your HR department's vital statistics measure up using data from hundreds of organizations in this respected survey.Compare your HR department's vital stats with data from over 500 hundred organizations that participated in this respected survey. Then apply the insights of our HR experts to help serve your organization better and more strategically.

With surveyed companies representing a broad range of industries and sizes, you'll gain insight into the problems, challenges, and solutions facing both colleagues and competitors.

This integrated report features readily accessible metrics, clear analysis, and focused perspectives from leading experts. You get 150-plus pages of data and insights covering HR department staffing, expenditures and budgets, measurement, and outsourcing - fully updated and produced by the leaders in HR information, research, and training: BNA, Inc . For more on how BNA supports HR and helps you drive business decisions through research and benchmarking tools, make sure you visit BNA's FREE HR Research & Performance Metrics Website .

BNA's report goes into greater depth than others on the market. Whereas some present the numbers and move on, BNA explains in plain English what the data means for you and your organization. This is cost-effective research that you won't have to pay consultants to get. BNA's HR Department Benchmarks and Analysis™ 2007 can save you thousands of dollars!

This professionally produced report features:

• Authoritative statistics and benchmarks, which are time-tested over the report's 21-year history.
  
• Focused articles that get “behind the numbers” with insights and examples from leading academics, practitioners, and consultants in HR.
  
• Expanded sections on HR staffing, expenditures, and measurement. Specific new content includes:
  • HR staff ratios both with and without clerical staff;
    
  • Staffing and budget analyses that account for contingent worker;
    
  • Data on global HR responsibilities;
    
  • Insightful articles on "HR's use of technology,” “Responses when outsourcing arrangements go bad," and more.
  
  
• More than 75 easy-to-read color graphics and tables.
  
• Coverage of important trends as well as emerging issues likely to affect your organization and your work.
  
• Consistent demographic breakouts by organization size, employment sector, and select industries.
  
• A rigorous research methodology , along with a useful profile of participating organizations, which includes small and mid-sized companies up through Fortune 500.