OKR Examples

10 Great Examples of HR OKRs

HR is a critical business function that recruits and nurtures the most precious resource of the organization – its people. HR plays a vital role in establishing the culture of the organization by ensuring the right people are recruited, treating employees & alumni as valuable resources, creating an inclusive environment to retain valuable diverse talent, designing a performance management system that values outcome, teamwork, and collaboration. CEOs look at the CHRO as a valuable partner in their quest to create a high-performance team.

#1: Employee Onboarding Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Develop a World-Class Employee Onboarding Program

43%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Improve onboarding employee satisfaction score after onboarding from 75% to 95%

Q3-2020 Onboarding Employee Satisfaction Score
75% 95% 83%

40%

Reduce new hire 30-days failure rate from 10% to 5%

Annual-2020 New Hire 30-Days Failure Rate
10% 5% 9%

20%

Increase the percentage of employees achieving at least 0.8 Score in productivity assessment by managers from 60% to 85%

Q3-2020 Productivity Assessment Score
60% 85% 77%

68%

#2: Employee Wellness Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Establish a Wonderful Employee Wellness Program

56%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Organize 6 mental health & wellbeing activities per quarter

Q3-2020 Employee Wellness Activity
0 6 2

33%

Enroll at least 80% of team members in the employee wellness program

Q3-2020 Employee Wellness Activity
40% 120% 60%

65%

Conduct 3 physical fitness sessions per month (Cardio/Gym/Yoga)

Q3-2020 Employee Wellness Activity
0 3 2

67%

Reduce absenteeism due to sick leave from 2500 person days to 1500 person days

Q3-2020 Sick Leave
2500 1500 2126

60%

#3: Compensation and Benefits Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Improve Compensation and Benefits Competitiveness

36%

Target Date: Annual-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Increase salary competitiveness ratio (SCR) from 0.8 to 1.2

Annual-2020 Salary Competitiveness Ratio (SCR)
0.8 1.2 0.9

25%

Increase salary competitiveness ratio for stars from 1.2 to 1.75

Annual-2020 Salary Competitiveness Ratio (SCR)
1.2 1.75 1.3

20%

Increase employee satisfaction (ESAT) score in annual surveys on compensation and benefits Plan from 50% to 75%

Annual-2020 ESAT
50% 75% 66%

64%

#4: HR Compliance Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Ensure Adequate HR Compliance

44%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Achieve 90% or above rating in quarterly HR compliance audit

Q3-2020 Compliance Rating
45% 135%

68%

20%

Resolve 95% of HR compliance related complaints in under 2 business days

Q3-2020 Complaint Resolution
47% 143%

88%

68%

100% of new hires to get a passing grade in HR compliance policy quiz within 1 week of hire

Q3-2020 % of New Hires
50% 150% 97%

45%

#5: Training and Development Team

Objective

David Griffin

Improve Training for Frontline Employees

46%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Achieve 100% course completion rate for frontline employees

Q3-2020 Course completion rate
50% 150%

74%

40%

90% of Employees achieve pass scores at the end of training quiz

Q3-2020 Pass Score
50% 150%

85%

50%

Increase training satisfaction score from 70% to 90%

Q3-2020 Training Satisfaction Score
70% 90% 80%

50%

#6: Diversity Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Improve Inclusion and Diversity

52%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

100% Completion rates of online diversity and inclusion training for new hires within 1 month of onboarding

Q3-2020 Training Completion Rate
50% 150%

80%

33%

Increase diversity index for leadership levels directors and above from 0.1 to 0.25

Annual-2020 Diversity Index
0.1 0.25 0.17

47%

Increase employee satisfaction survey scores among women from 0.4 to 0.8

Annual-2020 Employee Satisfaction Survey
0.4 0.8 0.7

75%

#7: Talent Management OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Develop Succession Planning for the Leadership Team

64%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Increase the number of managers (project manager and above) having succession planning done from 60% to 90%

Q3-2020 % of Managers
60% 90% 84%

80%

Enroll 25 candidates( Director and Above) in the leadership development program

Q3-2020 No. of Candidates
0 25 17

68%

Increase employee satisfaction scores in the monthly succession planning workshops from 70% to 90%

Q3-2020 Employee satisfaction score
70% 90% 79%

45%

#8: Talent Management Team OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Improve Talent Risk Management

50%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Reduce attrition in the top 2 bands from 15% to 5%

Q3-2020 Attrition
15% 5% 13%

20%

Increase internal promotion rate from 50% to 75%

Q3-2020 Internal Promotion Rate
50% 75% 63%

52%

Increase employee NPS score from 5 to 7.5

Annual-2020 Employee NPS Score
5 7.5 6.9

79%

#9: Employee Engagement OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Increase Employee Engagement

66%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Increase employee satisfaction score from 70% to 90%

Q3-2020 Employee Engagement
70% 90% 87%

85%

Improve glassdoor.com rating from 3 to 4.5

Annual-2020 Glassdoor.com Rating
3 4.5 3.7

70%

Increase employee participation in quarterly retreats from 75% to 95%

Q3-2020 Employee Participation
75% 95% 81%

44%

#10: Talent Acquisition OKRs

Objective

David Griffin

Build a First-Class Digital Marketing Team

42%

Target Date: Q3-2020

Visibility: All Employees

Key Results

Recruit 4 members for the content team

Q3-2020 No. of Team Members
2 6 3

25%

Recruit 5 members for the inbound marketing team

Q3-2020 No. of team members
3 8 5

40%

15 Team members to get certified in digital marketing

Q3-2020 No. of team members
0 15 5

33%

Reduce new hire 90-Days failure rate in the digital marketing team from 15% to 5%

Annual-2020 New Hire 90-Days Failure Rate
15% 5% 8%

70%

Conclusion

Profit.co’s OKR software provides an intuitive interface to define your HR OKRs and also comes with 300+ predefined KPIs to make OKR adoption easy.

Please also check out our other OKR example pages, Engineering OKRs, Customer Service OKRs, Marketing OKRs, Procurement OKRs, and Sales OKRs.

 

 

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