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Local Government provides vital services to the public, with its employees as the most important resource. Human Resources Services, Inc. (HRS) provides management consulting services to local government, other public agencies and related civic organizations in areas of human resources and general management. HRS offers a wide range of high quality professional services to meet the personnel needs of your organization and to strengthen management capacity.
We provide specialized and custom technical assistance and advisory services to cities and towns in current, emerging, and changing issues in human resources and municipal operations. As your strategic partner, we deliver the consulting services, analyses and tools needed to help develop the personnel plans, guidelines, policies, processes; and management and organizational systems.
Our experts combine traditional consultancy skills with public sector, business sector, technology, and human capital knowledge to address the many challenges and needs of municipalities.
News & Updates
Delivering Productive Performance Evaluations
Posted Dec 22, 2021Join our HR experts as they review best practices for delivering constructive and actionable performance evaluations. With salary determinations, organizational structure implications, and several other factors to consider, delivering a productive and effective evaluation can be a challenging ...Learn More
Looking at Total Compensation: Competitive compensation, benefits and talent strategies are essential to delivering on the missions of high-performing municipalities.
Posted Nov 09, 2021HRS concluded its total compensation study for the Town of Arlington, MA (Town/Schools). Just six miles outside of Boston, Arlington is approximately 48,000 population. This is the third time the Town has contracted with HRS for such an in-depth town-wide study which provides not only a c ...Learn More
Negotiating a Better Bargaining Agreement
Posted Jun 18, 2021Please join Sandy Stapczynski and Carol Granfield for their ICMA University Webinar on Collective Bargaining... "Negotiating a Better Bargaining Agreement"; this Thursday June 24, 2021 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. You won't want to miss this! Go to www.icma.org to register right away!!&nbs ...Learn More
Workforce Analysis
At the request of the client, Human Resources Services, Inc. can conduct custom workforce reviews. HRS will analyze the allocation of employees both in numbers and types of positions for each municipal department as compared to other comparable municipal ...Learn MoreDesign of Performance Evaluation Systems
Human Resources Services, Inc. has developed hundreds of custom performance evaluation systems for municipalities throughout Massachusetts and New England. Specific objectives of the projects include: (1) performance evaluation forms and inst ...Learn More