Global Human Resources Solutions

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Global solutions in human resources.

In a constantly changing environment where comparative advantages are fewer and fewer, effective management of human resources has gained strategic importance when facing competition. Therefore, the ability of your enterprise to attract, retain, develop and motivate talented employees must form part of your strengths.

Regardless of company activity or size, you will find a Global Solution in Human Resources tailored to your needs.

 Human Resources Management Consulting

Human Resources Management Consulting consists of analysis, diagnosis and implementation of changes to the organizational structure and the application of tools to facilitate the development of an organization that is both flexible and adaptable to the ever accelerating pace of change. Starting with a systematic study using proven methodologies, our team of experts develops a diagnosis that provides the recommendations necessary to adapt your structure, management and operational capabilities to your business strategy. Through evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of your organization at the structure, management team and operating team levels as well as corporate culture, your human resources can be effectively redeployed.

 Human Resources Management Tools


 Organizational Structure Design

Dynamics of market change, actions of the competition, emerging trends and demands of internal forces within the organization itself require continual reviews of organizational structures. Through the design of a new structure, we can help your company adapt its organizational model and align it to new objectives and strategies. This new model will enable the organization to adapt staff numbers, functions, processes and dependency relationships to the business plan. We evaluate candidates from a technical and psychological standpoint to identify those best suited to the requirements of the position and organization itself. We perform an in-depth study of personnel characteristics, abilities and attitudes necessary for optimal performance.

 Human Resources Evaluation

Through the Human Resources Evaluation process, we help your organization appraise how staff members perform their functions, analyzing to what extent they suit the structure and are compatible with the current style of work. In addition, we analyze their ability to make decisions and apply the knowledge, tools and capabilities required by your business. On this basis and with the goal of effectiveness into mind, we make recommendations that range from a redeployment of existing human resources and continuing education plans to recruitment search, reassignment and personnel severance.

 Job Analysis and Description

With the Job Analysis and Description service, our professionals can help you prepare a manual to enable your organization to orderly manage and rapidly make decisions regarding hiring, personnel relocation, training and termination requirements.

 Job Position Evaluation and Categorization

Our Job Position Evaluation and Categorization service offers a clear and objective appraisal for each position, enabling the design of an equitable and market competitive remuneration scale.

 Staff Performance Evaluation System Design

Our team of specialists can help you design a Performance Evaluation System to provide an objective evaluation of employees at your enterprise and facilitate decision making regarding promotions, remuneration and salary adjustments, as well as surveying management information and training needs.

 Variable Remuneration System Design

Implementation of a variable remuneration system for your personnel based on achievement of strategically defined performance indicators will enable your enterprise to manage your salary structure in an rapid and organized manner. Results can be measured at overall, sector and individual levels to increase the probability of achieving improved performance.
Our services in the area of Human Resources Management can further assist you in:

  • Human Resource Strategic Planning
  • Evaluation of executive potential and functional responsibilities
  • Design and implementation of career paths

 Remuneration and Fringe Benefit Survey

Over the last 25 years, PwC has published the annual Remuneration and Fringe Benefit Survey, currently in collaboration with the Uruguayan Association of Personnel Directors. This survey is unique in the market and reports all information available on:

  • Remunerations and fringe benefits for high and mid-level positions (60 positions) and dependent positions (70 positions), covering the areas of general management, administration, finance, information technology, marketing/sales, production and personnel, expressed both in Uruguayan pesos and US dollars.
  • Average and mean salary values within the highest 20% and lowest 20% percentiles of the total survey grouped by small, medium and large enterprises
  • Remuneration and fringe benefit policies applied by participating enterprises
  • Comparative evolution of the domestic price index, the US dollar exchange rate and salaries
  • Remunerations of management positions in Latin American countries
  • Cost of living for top executives in Latin America
  • Latest changes in labor legislation regarding salaries and social security

In response to various market requirements, the results of our research and analysis of the information are reflected in several reports:

  • International survey – consisting of international enterprises exclusively
  • National survey – consisting of only local enterprises
  • General survey - with information on all local and international enterprises
  • Specific survey - financial institutions including banks, finance companies, savings and loans cooperatives and external (offshore) financial institutions
  • Specific survey - pharmaceutical laboratories
  • Special surveys - carried out upon request

At your request, we can adapt any of these reports to the specific needs of your organization. For example, you may determine which specific job positions require investigation or which type of enterprise you wish to be compared with.

 Personnel Search

Every enterprise faces development and organizational change as a consequence of its own evolution to address and respond to market challenges. To attain this, the enterprise must possess an adequate strategy, and principally, the appropriate human resources to meet established objectives in a satisfactory manner.
In this respect, our professional team can provide assistance in the search for individuals having the best profiles suited to your requirements, utilizing a proven technology in the local environment.Once the best candidates in the market are identified, our applied methodology includes:

  • Background evaluation through a critical analysis of their résumés
  • Technical evaluation performed by our specialists who are duly trained and experienced in the activity area of the professional being selected
  • Evaluation of personality, potential and ability carried out by professional psychologists who are highly proficient in the use of reliable and proven evaluation tools
  • Labor psychological reports on individuals subject to evaluation and joint analysis of results
  • On-going advice throughout the interview and final selection phases

After hiring the most suitable candidate for the job position, our consultants keep in contact with you to continue to provide support and other services.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Personnel Search service is objective, quick, timely and guaranteed and opens access to the broadest market of potential candidates, utilizing reliable procedures to identify the best candidates and experienced professionals to evaluate them.

 Outplacement: Counseling and labor re-insertion

All dismissal situations generally produce tension between the parties involved. Due precisely to this, the main objective of our Outplacement service is to reduce anguish and uncertainty both for the individual making the dismissal decision and the person affected by said decision.

With this approach, Outplacement service benefits consist of facilitating the severance procedure, improving enterprise-employee relations, providing professional support and labor market advice.

Responding to individual requirements of both employers or employees, PricewaterhouseCoopers provides technical and psychological support as necessary to handle the severance / re-insertion process in the best possible manner.

Our team's work includes a series of interviews with employees involved in the outplacement process to inform them of the situation, to evaluate their actual chances of re-insertion and to show them the features of the professional personnel search process. Strong and weak aspects of the individual's training and labor experience are identified, as well as his or her areas of interest and labor motivation.

In addition, we provide advice on résumé preparation and on participation in search interviews, so interested individuals may present themselves for staff search requests by enterprises and/or consultants in the local market. We help them become confident in themselves to enable their future employment search activities in an autonomous manner.

We likewise emphasize that our firm actively presents employees under outplacement procedures to personnel searches engaged by our clients, both locally and regionally.

 Training Program

Specially focused on functional managers and professionals at any level in the organization willing to specialize in subjects connected to management dynamics of their business, the PricewaterhouseCoopers Training Program for Human Resources consists of independent thematic modules that can be adapted to fit the specific needs of your organization.

In addition, the multidisciplinary characteristics of the program connect participants to a representative group of large and medium-size companies, in both public and private sectors, with the consequent enrichment in the flow of information and case analyses through modules including:

  • Effective Communications
  • Motivation
  • Leadership
  • Collaborative Negotiation
  • Labor Relations
  • Personnel Search
  • Teamwork
  • Time Management