We were lucky to have the varied views of the three speakers, Tony Powell, Andrew Mayo, and Duncan Brown who challenged the mantra that people are our most valuable asset.
Does anyone believe chief executives who claim that people are their most valuable asset? Can the claim be substantiated? Can you measure, or even value, people for internal management purposes?
Our speakers came from HR, finance and a business school.
The Speakers
Andrew Mayo, President of the HR Society, is a frequent speaker, writer and facilitator in international HRM, specialising in people and organisation development, having previously worked for nearly thirty years in major international organisations. He is a Programme Director at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School and Associate Professor of HRM at Middlesex Business School. He is the author of numerous articles and books.
Tony Powell, Faculty of Finance and Management Deputy Chairman at the ICAEW is a self-employed management consultant and trainer specialising in innovation, valuation, and business planning. He qualified with Price Waterhouse in Leeds and spent one year there post qualification, followed by 21 with KPMG in Chicago, Holland, Paris and London, the last 10 as a partner with roles as a partner in charge of professional practice and training at KPMG. Since leaving KPMG Tony has been a director of Intellectual Capital Services and a member of The Relational Finance Group – a cross-disciplinary group of professionals exploring alternatives to the limited company. He is interested in how the fields of valuation, intangibles and innovation can be pulled together to help build sustainable business growth.
Duncan Brown is a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers
where he leads the management and employee reward work. He has more than 20
years experience in performance and rewards management with organisations
across all sectors and sizes, ranging from Shell to the United Nations and
RNLI. His current areas of interest include measurements of the
effectiveness of reward practices and the use of non-financial indicators in
bonus plans. He also spent 5 years as Assistant Director General at the CIPD
where he led the research and government policy activity, focusing on
demonstrating the links between HRM and organisation performance.
Duncan is a leading commentator on HR and reward issues, with his most
recent book being Strategic Reward:
Making it Happen. He has appeared on BBC TV Breakfast and evening
news, as well as Radio 4's Today
programme. Human Resources
magazine voted him in its list of the Top 10 most influential people in UK
HR in 2007.
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