Essentials Series #09-10 19th October

Employment Demographics - Demography is Destiny

George Blair

What demographic information should be collected by the organisation? How significant will changes in the population, such as those to the age and gender profile, ethnicity and disability, become in the future?

Questions that this session addressed:

• What will the age profile of the West and other similar societies be like in twenty years time?
• What are the implications of an aging society, i.e. recruitment; retaining older staff; pension funds
• Should there be a close relationship between the demography (age, gender and ethnicity) of our workforce and our customers?
• To what extent does the demography of our workforce match that of our customers?
• What are the benefits of analysing where our staff live?
• Are we sitting on demographic time-bomb with retirements just around the corner?
• Where will we get our future staff from?
• Where should we be located, in the UK or abroad?
• Is class an outmoded classification?
• How useful are marketing socio-economic classifications such as Mosaic?
• What demographic statistics should the HR department produce, for whom and how often? How to make them interesting and relevant.

The Speaker:

George Blair is an experienced management consultant with a strong track record in workforce planning and development, organisational change and education and training. He combines a participative style of working with strong influencing skills. He has extensive UK and overseas experience including Eastern Europe, Africa, the Near and Middle East.

George is managing consultant at Shared Solutions Consulting. He has been an expert witness to the House of Commons Health Committee and advisor to the King's Fund. He is a director of the HR Society, the leading professional body for workforce planning and development. He is also a certified management consultant.

This event will take place at One Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE. Coffee will be served from 10.00am for a 10.15 start and the day will end at 4.30pm.

The per-person fee is £295 plus VAT for members of the HR Society or FISSING, and £365 plus VAT for non-members. A 20% discount will apply to the second and subsequent participants from the same company attending the same event.