The Future of HR

Speaker: Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation.

In his address, Will Hutton will discuss how we can create a future for HR that gets beyond a debate characterised by extremes of ‘HR as an unnecessary and expensive overhead’, versus ‘HR that must be respected and at the centre of the business’. 

He will explore questions such as:  

·   What are the alternative ways that organisations can think about the HR function? 

·   What does it champion?  How does it stretch the system? 

·   Who does it hold to account? How can it create the best that is within the system for the whole workforce? 

·   How is accountability and professional judgement across organisations championed in HR strategies, policies and practices?   

·   How confident is HR that it can harness the reality of differing personal, team and departmental motivations and agendas to create positive energy, diversity and innovation?

This milestone in our Forums programme will be celebrated by having a pre-event sit down lunch, to which all the attendees to the Forum will be invited as guests of the HR Society. Wine and other refreshments will be available at the reception from 12.00 noon, and the lunch will be served at 12.30.  The forum itself will commence at 2.00pm.

If you wish to reserve your place, please contact:

Sheila Nutt, Events Co-ordinator at network@hrsociety.co.uk

Process Engineering

Speaker: Kees van Haperen

This session will look at Systems & Process Concepts for Improving Organisational Performance.  The aim is to introduce a different way of thinking and analysing of businesses in order to be capable of effecting (radical) change to current business activities as a means of improving overall business performance.

For further details about this event click: Process Engineering 15th September  

Linking People with the Business

Speakers: Colin Richards Carpenter and Prof Andrew Forbes

This event will include a look at the traditional techniques for establishing an organisation’s demand for people, identifying substantial shortcomings and how simple HR information can be quickly collected and analysed to support strategic HR decision making.

Statistics and their Interpretation and the Presentation of Data

Speaker: Kees van Haperen

This session will provide an overview of tools and techniques for capturing and presenting data and statistics relevant to the employment and management of human resources to enable managers to make effective decisions. It will encompass concepts and issues such as performance, uncertainty (risk), costing, resource consumption, productivity.  It will enable HR specialists and managers to improve their understanding or a wide range of quantitative issues and will enable them to create effective reports on their organisation’s or team’s performance.

For further details about this event click: Statistics & their Interpretation 20th October

Speaker: John Evans, HR Director, Strathclyde Police

Models and Practice for Workforce Planning

Speakers: Colin Richards Carpenter and Prof Andrew Forbes

This event will review the problems of reliance on subjective opinion and look at the benefits to be gained from some simple quantification of HR issues.  It will also explore the approaches and techniques of HR planning and introduce the concept of HR modelling.

Principles of Marketing

Speaker: Karen Drury

This session covers the basics of marketing. It will look at the place of HR in marketing, and an overview of developing a marketing strategy.

For further details about this event click: Principles of Marketing 17th November

People Related Measurement

Speaker: Andrew Mayo

There is much confusion about "HR metrics". And yet if people do have an important asset value we ought to be smarter at measures that have to do with people, and at how to make them meaningful and useful.

For further details about this event click: People Related Measurement 11th December

TBA

Additional FISSING HR Benchmarking Club meetings and site visits.