2015

Leading the world with HR standards, audits and metrics

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Thursday, 17 September 2015

Sandton Convention Centre,
Johannesburg

+ Earn 2 CPD Points

South Africa making world history

3rd Annual National HR

Standards Roll Out

New this year

The National HR Standards Journey

(2013 2015) has been an
unprecedented success with many
different milestones along this exciting
journey. The 3rd Annual HR Standards
Roll Out will now build on the
successes achieved, and take the HR
profession forward in the 2016 2020
era.
Those HR professionals who have not
yet been part of the journey need not
feel worried or left out. We will provide
them with an up to date list of FAQs
and answers to help them find their feet
and quickly become part of the journey
with their colleagues.

Key highlights of the Standards Journey

Purpose

The purpose of the HR Standards

initiative driven by SABPP in association
with HR Future magazine was to reduce
inconsistencies in HR practice and to
provide a common and standardised
framework for sound HR practice. The HR
Standards project enabled the HR
profession to improve its credibility, status
and impact in the workplace. In 2014, an
additional 19 HR Professional Practice Standards
were created to support the HR Management
System with clear professional practices
being implemented by HR professionals in
the workplace. These Professional Practice
Standards range from absenteeism management
and succession planning to career development.
Also, 2014 saw the setting up of a National HR
Audit Unit responsible for conducting HR Audits
against the National HR Standards. Several
companies have already been audited and the
Boards of those companies audited now have
full confidence in the quality of HR practice as
verified by independent external auditors.

In 2015, the 3rd Annual HR Standards

Roll Out takes the National HR
Standards Journey to a new level of
significance. Not only do we continue
on this multi-year HR Standards journey,
but we also, every year, step up and
add new outputs to the achievements of
the previous year as the HR Standards
journey unfolds. This year we bring you
the framework within which a National
HR scorecard, Board and operational
HR reporting will be developed,
enabling you to measure the bottomline impact of HR on your organisation. The
HR metrics also enable you to do meaningful
benchmarking with other companies against
a clear set of consistent metrics. This threeyear HR Standards journey has now reached a
level of integration and alignment so much so
that the three dimensions (standards, audits
and metrics) now form a synergistic approach
to raising the bar on HR excellence in the
workplace that extends the impact of HR work
beyond the realm of internal HR practices to
national significance.

Successes achieved

Context

Over the past three years, South

Africa has become a world-leader in
the development, implementation and
auditing of National HR Standards. The
HR Standards journey started in 2013
with the development of the worlds
first National HR Management
System with 13 standard elements,
namely Strategic HR Management,
Talent Management, HR Risk Management,
Workforce Planning, Learning and Development,
Performance Management, Reward and
Recognition, Employee Wellness, Employment
Relations Management, HR Service Delivery, HR
Technology and HR Measurement.

The South African HR Standards

were the first set of its kind in the
world and attracted interest from
18 countries. Several countries on
the African continent have either
adopted or slightly adapted the
HR Standards for their purposes.
The First Annual National HR
Standards Roll Out in 2013
attracted 468 participants and the
second annual roll-out in 2014
attracted 631 delegates. More
than 4 000 HR professionals have
now been directly exposed to the
HR Standards.
Top HR professional bodies and
interest groups from the USA, UK,
Australia and other countries have
reacted favourably to the South
African HR Standards with some
of them visiting SABPP to learn
about the process and outcomes.
A total of 21 universities have
committed to adapt their curricula
to the HR Standards and the
first masters degree on the HR
Standards has been successfully
completed by an HR Manager.
The Minister of Justice and
Correctional Services, Advocate
Michael Masutha approved
HR professionals as Ex-Officio
Commissioners of Oaths when the
Standards were submitted as part
of the motivation to his office.
The worlds first HR audit
framework was developed so
companies can be audited against
the National HR Standards.
More than 100 auditors have
been trained to audit companies
against the Standards.

07:30 - 08:00
08:00 - 08:15

Tangible deliverables

Registration. All Delegates

Welcome and Opening Comments
Alan Hosking, Executive Editor,
HR Future
08:15 - 08:30
Overview of the Journey/Day

Siphiwe Moyo/Marius Meyer, SABPP
08:30 - 09:15
Keynote Address: Organisational

Effectiveness: The role and benefits
Attend the 3rd Annual HR Standards

of HR Auditing
Roll Out and receive the following
tangible outputs:

Dr Chris Andrews, Bond University,
Australia International Speaker
HR Standards Gap Analysis
09:15 - 09:30
Talk time with Chris
Instrument.
09:30 - 10:00
Tea/Coffee

First
National HR Audit Report
10:00 - 10:45
Strategic trends and HRs role in
integrating
the results of those
Governance
companies audited.

Terry Booysen, CGF Research Institute
Memory stick with all presentations
10:45 - 11:00
Talk time with Terry
and all research papers presented by
11:00 - 12:00
Exhibition Experiential Activity
SABPP over the last year, including
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
top 20 HR Standards articles
13:00 - 13:40
Case Study of ATNS: Navigating
published in HR Future magazine.

our way to excellence
National HR Scorecard (Framework).

Thandi Thankge, HR Executive
Handy guide to the National HR
Competency Model.
13:40 - 14:20
Case Study of Telesure: Extracting
Direct connections with HR service

value from our HR Audit
providers organised according to
Kholeka Ngubeni-Henderson,
products
and services relating directly
HR Executive
to
the
13
HR Standards.
14:20 - 14:30
Talk Time with Thandi and Kholeka
New position paper on HR Governance.
14:30 - 15:00
Tea/Coffee
Information on how to register as a
15:00 - 15:30
HR Metrics: the Next Dimension
Commissioner of Oaths and guide for fulfilling

Prof. Theo Veldsman, UJ
this duty successfully.

Dr Penny Abbott, SABPP
Experiential learning in gamification and a
15:30 - 16:00
Building a proudly South African Company
take-home HR Standards game.

Adv. Leslie Sedibe, Proudly South African
16:00 - 16:30
You are the Standard
Thebe Ikalafeng, Top Motivational Speaker
16:30
Thanks and Closure

Alan Hosking Executive Editor,

HR Future

Other features and benefits

Programme

Thought leader keynote presentation by

Dr Chris Andrews from Australia, to our
knowledge the first person in the world
to complete a PhD on HR Audits.
Talk Time with the speakers to pose
questions about their presentations.
Unique exhibition experience.
Case study presentations of the first
two companies (Telesure and ATNS)
audited against the National HR
Standards.
Interactive sessions with live voting
on the application of the different HR
Standards.

HR Future and SABPP members

qualify for a special discount.
HR Professionals who register
with SABPP in accordance
with the NQF Act, will qualify for
the member discounts offered
and, once registered as SABPP
Professionals will automatically
become Commissioners of Oaths
in accordance with the Justices
of Peace and Commissioners of
Oaths Act. Send your application
for professional registration to
professional@sabpp.co.za to qualify
for the member fee by 15 August
2015.
To become an HR Future member,
email Chantal at chantal@hrfuture.net.

Payments are made to Osgard

Media, the publishers of HR
Future magazine.

Banking details:

Osgard Media
Standard Bank, Randburg
Account no: 221026304
Branch code: 018005

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email or fax proof of payment to
Helena van der Walt
(finance@osgard.co.za or fax to
+27 11 782 5160).

Cancellations must be made in writing.

Cancellations made after 17 August
2015 incur a 50% cancellation fee.
Cancellations made after 31 August
2015, incur a 100% cancellation fee.

Should delegates cancel, replacements will

be accepted. Replacement delegates details
must be forwarded to Chantal at
chantal@hrfuture.net within 48 hours of
cancellation.

Details

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(SABPP and HR Future members)

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