DETERMINING RISK ASSOCIATED WITH A DETERMINED LABOR TYPE FOR CANDIDATE PERSONNEL

• US 20140229228A1
• Filed: 09/14/2011
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Petersen, Paula, Rose, Deborah Ann, LaBelle, Bridgit J., Webb, Sharon, Bucion, Nathalie Dhenin, Rogers, Jennifer, Kirk, Dan
• Application Number:
  US14/239,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20140229228A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities

Abstract

Information relating to candidate personnel to be engaged by an enterprise is received. A risk associated with a determined labor type for the candidate personnel is determined.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

causing, by a system having a processor, presentation of a user interface prompting for information relating to candidate personnel to be engaged by an enterprise;

determining, by the system, a risk associated with a determined labor type for the candidate personnel; and

determining, by the system, whether the risk associated with the determined labor type is unacceptable.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the risk associated with the labor type is unacceptable, providing a prompt that a predefined group of the enterprise is to be contacted for assistance.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determined labor type is selected from among a freelancer, an agency contractor, an outsourced services contractor, and a consultant contractor.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an indication of the determined labor type based on input from a user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an indication of the determined labor type based on automated selection by the system according to the information received through the user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the risk associated with the determined labor type is based on a combination of one or multiple of the following:

number of employees of a supplier of the candidate personnel, amount of training and/or tools to be provided by the enterprise to the personnel, level of supervision of the candidate personnel, contact person for issues encountered by the candidate personnel while engaged by the enterprise, location of the candidate personnel while doing work for the enterprise, whether the candidate personnel provides similar services to other enterprises, and whether the enterprise is responsible for personnel issues associated with the candidate personnel.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to detecting that the determined labor type for the candidate personnel is a freelancer, identifying an aggregator for the freelancer.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising communicating details of engagement of the candidate personnel to the aggregator to cause the aggregator to engage the candidate personnel on behalf of the enterprise.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, from the aggregator, an indication that the candidate personnel is unwilling to be engaged as a freelancer;

in response to the indication, changing a labor type for the candidate personnel.

10. An article comprising at least one machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a system to:

receive information relating to candidate personnel to be engaged by an enterprise;

determine a labor type from among plural different labor types for the candidate personnel;

calculate a risk score for the determined labor type; and

determine, based on the risk score, whether a risk associated with the determined labor type is unacceptable.

11. A system comprising:

at least one processor to;

receive information relating to candidate personnel to be engaged by an enterprise;

receive a classification of a labor type of the candidate personnel;

determine a risk associated with the classification of the labor type; and

perform an action according to the determined risk.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is to further:

receive information entered into a risk assessment form; and

calculate a measure of risk based on the information in the risk assessment form, wherein the risk associated with the classification is determined based on the measure of risk.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is to further:

direct a user to assistance in response to determining that the risk is unacceptable.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is to further:

in response to determining that the risk is acceptable,

present the labor type to a user; and

generate a labor key for the labor type, wherein the labor key is useable to access information associated with the labor type.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the classification of the labor type is user-entered or automatically generated.