About HR-Fundamentals

HR-Fundamentals provide a range of employment related services for small, medium and large organisations.

Employment documents such as policies and procedures, legal documents, forms and advice are available for download from our industry leading secure website. We aim to make all our documents easy to understand and use, yet fully compliant with current employment legislation and recommended best practice. Our online purchase process is designed to be straightforward to use, yet safe, secure and reliable. Your privacy and security is extremely important to us.

We also provide online tools to help employers manage their staff and their business more effectively. Our online performance management tool is designed to improve the performance appraisal & review process whilst allowing clients to get started immediately. The system is fully hosted in our data centre, requiring no software installation or maintenance by our clients.

Our history and background

HR-Fundamentals was started in 2002 by Helen Ramsey and Stephen Simmons. Our initial focus on simplifying complex employment issues as much as we can remains as important to us today as when we started.

Helen Ramsey, Director of Consultancy

Helen oversees the creation and maintenance of our legal forms, employment letters and employer guidance. In addition, Helen advises clients about current and future employment issues and takes a strong interest in employment legislation. Helen has over seventeen years of Human Resource management and personnel development.

As a Chartered Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Helen is committed to developing and delivering key human resource management tools for the future.

Stephen Simmons, Director of Technology

With responsibility for our industry leading ecommerce website and service delivery platforms, Stephen's technical background in software design and development is essential to our business. Stephen has recently lead the development of both our new website and online performance appraisal system.

Stephen is an advocate of open source software and is the technical architect for our next generation of open source HR software and database systems.

Human Resource and Management Services

Consultancy
We can provide support and advice for a diverse range of people management issues. Our experience can help organisations deal with difficult problems and develop effective solutions.

Employment and Management - Free Advice
To complement our HR Policies, letters, forms and documentation, we offer some general advice on a number of common HR issues and problems.

Online Performance Appraisals
Web-based performance appraisals that are easy to use, flexible, supports single and multi-rater style appraisals and includes extensive management reports and graphs.

Exit Interviews
Online exit interviews that help identify why staff leave, and includes detailed questions, management reports, company feedback and exit questionnaire material.

HR Intranets
Using Internet technologies within an organisation can greatly improve the efficiency of an HR department and allow HR to become more strategic. Online policies & procedures, employee self service and interactive training are just some possibilities.

Online Recruitment
Web technologies provide amazing opportunities for increasing candidate contact and improving the recruitment process. We can help you deliver campaign microsites, searchable vacancy databases and online application forms.

HR Health Checks
Ensure your employment contracts, policies, procedures and guidance information are up to date with current employment legislation and best practices with a regular HR health check.

Personality Profiling
Highlight talent, tailor your management style and improve staff retention with personality and behavioural profiling techniques.

Training
Practical training courses that you or your managers can run to improve the effectiveness of your people and your organisation.