PBCS Volume 1, Number 1

Ernst & Young Clients Transferred to Fox Lawson & Associates

Fox Lawson & Associates Focuses on Public Sector Compensation and Human Resources Consulting

As a result of a major restructuring of its consulting practice, Ernst & Young LLP is no longer pursuing compensation and human resources consulting opportunities in the government sector.

However, in order to effectively continue to serve the many compensation and human resources public sector clients of the firm, and to fulfill the commitments made to current clients, the firm has sold the practice to its partners, Jim Fox, Bruce Lawson and Bob Bjorklund. Ernst & Young has reassigned the responsibilities of all current compensation, classification and human resources engagements and proposals to the firm of Fox Lawson & Associates LLC.

The firm of Fox Lawson & Associates LLC is the successor firm to Ernst & Young's public sector compensation and human resources consulting practice. The three partners of the new firm have accomplished the leadership of Ernst & Young's public sector compensation consulting practice for the past 16 years.

Fox Lawson & Associates Announces Consulting Services to Public Sector

Fox Lawson & Associates LLC is based out of the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Phoenix. It serves clients nationally on a variety of classification, compensation and human resource issues. Areas of professional assistance include:

Classification and Compensation Studies

Design of internally and externally equitable compensation systems Analysis and evaluation of job classifications and compensation practices

Pay equity studies

Compensation surveys and structuring of salary ranges

Development of policies and procedures

Fair Labor Standards Act, Equal Pay Act, Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance review

Since the partners of Fox Lawson & Associates LLC are the same individuals that have provided service to you in the past, the major change that should be apparent will be the name of the firm. Fox Lawson & Associates LLC will continue to provide consulting assistance to public sector clients on all job evaluation methodologies previously provided by Ernst & Young.

Pay for Performance Systems

Gain sharing and group incentive programs

Productivity programs

Employee Benefits

Evaluation of benefit plans

Cost assessment of plan designs

Definition of performance standards

Performance appraisal programs

Performance improvement systems

Organization Reviews

Review of personnel department objectives, functions, policies, procedures and practices

Operations audits of department efficiency and effectiveness

Development of human resources goals, strategies, organization structures, work-flow, and job designs programs

Fox Lawson & Associates LLC has been instrumental in developing job evaluation methodologies to better meet client needs in today's environment. Because no single method of job evaluation fits the needs of all clients, we offer a "family" of methods including the Decision Band Method; HexlPoint ^TM, a point factor plan; and IFACS, a computerized system of job evaluation. Our three partners have jointly conducted over 1000 compensation studies for various universities, colleges, school districts, cities, counties, states and other governmental units.

Group facilitation

Span of control studies

Offices

Organizational Change Management and Organizational Alignment

Realignment of compensation and human resources programs

Determination of barriers and enablers of organizational change

Diagnosis of personnel practices and employee opinions

Development of improvement programs

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