5CHR – Session 4

ciaran.dunne@wiltshire.ac.uk

5.10.17
Perception is everything ?

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Objectives
• Check learning in current context
• Explore what metrics you use in analysing your business
• Can you match practices vertically and horizontally?
• Explore what change means?
• Explain where Ethics are part of your strategy ?
• Think about writing an assignment
Looking back
• Think about recent changes in the Airline Industry ?
STEEPLE, Porter, Mintzberg – relevant ?
HR Outlook 2016-17 – what is considered
important – Did you read this ?
• Report on what is important in HR – now & looking ahead

• Costs
• Talent Management
• Organisational flexibility
• Productivity

• What are the business priorities for your organisation?

• What are the strategic / main HR objectives ?
• Summary Image of report
• https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/strategy/hr/outlook-reports
• https://www.cipd.co.uk/podcasts/look-ahead-2017 - Podcast

JM/5MHR/2/2016
 HR Strategy -
Did you think about this ?
‘a set of ideas, policies and practices which management
adopt to achieve a people-management objective’
Tyson (1995) (Farnham 1.3.5)
Mainly concerned with:

• Vertical integration or ‘external fit’

• Horizontal integration or ‘internal fit’

How would this work for … AMO Model - Purcell

• Recruitment?

‘Improved personal & organisation performance’

Metrics / Analytics
• Why do it ?
• What do you use?

• Evidence based reporting and decision making

• Reporting the effectiveness of what? Correlation ? Cause/ Effect?

• 2 types: Quantitative – measurable and unbiased – examples?

Qualitative – narrative, opinion – examples?

• What HR reporting occurs in your organisation? Why?

• What analytics do you use / have you stopped using? Why ?
P.16 -18
• https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/strategy/analytics/factsheet
Data Exercise
• Using Sticky notes – examples of what is being

• Categorise them in to Basic, Intermediate and Strategic – copy if

necessary

• How much is qualitative and quantitative?

• Where does HR look effective?

How are the HR objectives aligned with the
business?
• Balanced Scorecard outlining priorities but routine must not be forgotten

JM/5MHR/2/2016
 Influencing the board / Creating value - Podcasts

• https://
www.cipd.co.uk/podcasts/hr-analytics-influence-strategy-through-dat
a
(20 mins)

• https://
www.cipd.co.uk/podcasts/using-metrics-drive-value-through-people
(21mins)
JM/5MHR/2/2016
Managing Change
Kubler-Ross’s change curve – Is there a role for HR?
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Ethics and HRM (p35-38)
• Ethics (life) & Professionalism (CIPD)

• Value : Relationships, Brand, Role Model

• Paradox – Ethics v Business ?

• How are ethics promoted / developed at work ? The impact of Law ?

• https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/culture/ethics/role-hr-factsheet
Your assignment Due 10th October
• Look at examples
• Words
• Golden Rules
• Harvard referencing
 Looking forward…
This is the end of the 5CHR unit

Your assignment is due on 12th October.

Remember the rules

Next week we start looking at 5DVP. Please

start to read Chapter 4. Also look at the main
CIPD for Profession map and CPD

Good work so far – see you next week