CIPD conference 2005: HR & Compliance Centre resources
This year's CIPD conference has 50 seminars and keynote sessions across seven topic streams covering the key business issues that will shape the HR agenda for the coming year.
XpertHR offers a wealth of content directly relevant to the full spectrum of topics up for discussion in Harrogate this week. We have put together a reading list for each session.
Go straight to XpertHR reading lists for each session by clicking the session titles in the list below, or browse the full list by scrolling down the page.
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XpertHR reading list: CIPD conference 2005
Tuesday 25 October: 10.00 -
17.00
Topical update: What's new
in employment law
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.15 -
12.30
Strategy and leadership:
Informal networks
Innovation: Lessons from the
future: innovating for radical success
The future role of HR: Human
capital
Achieving high performance:
Onboarding: setting new leaders up for success
Managing change: Giving
something back
Talent management: Managing
talent in testing times
Topical update: Managing
absence - the carrot or the stick?
Workshop: From business
strategy to HR solutions
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 -
15.30
Strategy and leadership:
Five challenges for the next five years
Innovation: More than just
a makeover - innovative workplaces
The future role of HR: What
future for HR?
Achieving high performance:
Making it into the record books
Managing change: Making
change happen
Talent management: Tackling
the pay gap - looking below the surface
Topical update:
Employee-driven organisations - implementing the Information and Consultation
Directive
Workshop: Effectively
positioning and presenting the HR case
Wednesday 26 October, session three: 16.00 -
17.45
Opening keynote: Leading
through turbulence
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 -
11.00
Strategy and leadership:
Demonstrating people make the difference
Innovation: Contextual
intelligence: a hallmark of great business leaders
The future role of HR:
Outsourcing and insourcing: the options for HR
Achieving high performance:
How to maximise performance
Managing change: Deep
change: a radical approach to leadership development
Talent management:
Strategies for retaining talent
Topical update: Employment
law update
Workshop: HR's guide to the
pensions crisis
Thursday 27 October, session two: 11.30 -
12.45
Keynote: The changing face
of success
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 -
15.00
The future role of HR: What
does your CEO want from HR?
Strategy and leadership:
HR: becoming a strategic business partner
Innovation: Against the
odds
Achieving high performance:
Coaching: a set of skills or a way of life?
Managing change: How to
engage line managers
Talent management: A
'decision science' for human capital
Topical update: Shattering
the glass ceiling
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 -
17.30
Strategy and leadership:
Inspirational leadership - leadership lessons from Shakespeare's Henry V
Innovation: Innovation as
unusual
The future role of HR:
Organisational renewal
Achieving high performance:
Developing our leaders
Managing change: How did I
miss that?: Why smart people make silly mistakes and how to correct them
Talent management:
Improving the impact of reward - working smarter not harder
Topical update: Spiritual
capital: a new philosophy for business
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 -
11.00
Strategy and leadership:
Making a difference
Innovation: Engaging
commitment for action
The future role of HR: HR's
global influence
Achieving high performance:
Managing high performers
Managing change: Achieving
change in the public sector
Talent management: Living
longer: re-inventing retirement
Topical update: Asking the
right questions
Workshop: Coaching your
staff to success
Friday 28 October, session two: 11.30 -
13.15
Closing keynote: The HR
value proposition: the next agenda for delivering results
Topical update: What's new in employment law
Tuesday 25 October: 10.00 - 17.00
Contracts
How to ensure agency temps are not held to be
employees
To prevent an agency worker being held by a
tribunal to be an employee, employers should ensure that the documentation and
the reality of the arrangement are consistent, explains Katie Clark.
Temps Directive on hold
The European Commission has consigned the proposed Temporary Workers Directive
to limbo as part of an exercise to weed out draft laws which either fail to
help competitiveness or stand little chance of reaching the statute books.
How to employ agency temps as permanent
members of staff
XpertHR's How to service provides step-by-step guidance on how to employ agency
temps as permanent members of staff.
Working time: rolled-up holiday pay scenario
Tony Hyams-Parish of Rawlison Butler considers some of the difficulties
encountered by an employer attempting to incorporate holiday pay within a
worker's hourly rate of pay, from XpertHR's topic of the week series.
Discrimination
First religious discrimination claims decided
Two employment tribunal decisions at the start of
2005 were among the first made under the Employment Equality (Religion or
Belief) Regulations 2003.
First sexual orientation case decided
A manager who was persistently subjected to
homophobic taunts has become the first person to be awarded compensation under
the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003.
New definitions of harassment are introduced
The Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005 introduce new definitions
of sexual and sex-based harassment from 1 October 2005.
How to deal with bullying and harassment in
the workplace
Entry from the XpertHR How to service providing
guidance on dealing with bullying and harassment in the workplace.
Government updates advice on definition of
disability
The Government is updating its guidance on determining
whether an individual is disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination
legislation, to take account of changes to the law coming into force on 5
December 2005.
Larger employers lead on equal pay reviews
One in three organisations employing 500 or more
staff has conducted an equal pay review, compared with one in five employers
across the whole economy, according to new research from the Equal
Opportunities Commission.
What impact will the age Regulations
have on the workplace?
Christine Jenner of Winckworth Sherwood identifies some of
the main policies, procedures and areas of workplace culture that will be
affected by the age discrimination Regulations from 1 October 2006.
Discipline and dismissal
Statutory dispute
resolution procedures: the dismissal and disciplinary procedures
Victoria
Parry, of Osborne Clarke, analyses the new statutory dismissal and disciplinary
procedures, in effect on 1 October 2004, from XpertHR's topic of the week
series.
Managing disputes: a
guide
The Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on
managing disputes looks at the practical issues surrounding dispute
management.
Stressful working conditions and the
law
Douglas Leach of IRS examines situations where legal
remedies may be sought in respect of stressful working conditions, both before
and after the onset of injury.
Tribunal reforms
Use of new tribunal forms becomes
mandatory
The use of the new employment tribunal claim and response
forms, which were introduced on 1 October 2004, becomes mandatory from 1 October
2005.
Employment tribunal system should be
reformed, says CIPD
The main UK employers' organisation has called for a series
of reforms to 'restore confidence' in the employment tribunal system, claiming
that it is too complex, too expensive and too open to employees making 'weak and
vexatious' claims.
Collective labour law
Informing and consulting on the
up
The implementation of the Information and Consultation
Directive has prompted a flurry of activity to improve consultation
arrangements, albeit among a minority of employers.
New trade union laws come into
force
The remaining sections of the Employment Relations Act
2004, which place new restrictions on employers notified that a union
recognition ballot is to be held, come into force on 1 October 2005.
Transfer of undertakings
TUPE pension protection rights
explained
Pensions specialists at IRS examine new pension protection
rights for employees involved in transfers where the Transfer of Undertakings
(Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 apply.
Recent TUPE developments: pension
protection
Gareth Brahams, a Partner in the Employment &
Incentives Department at Lewis Silkin, looks at the recent increase in the level
of protection provided in respect of pensions for employees affected by an
outsourcing, merger or acquisition. From XpertHR's topic of the week
series.
Strategy and leadership: Informal networks
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Make the most of your employee
networks
Will
Hutton, chief executive of The Work Foundation argues that working people no
longer feel allegiances to the institutions that used to buttress working life.
Rather, they are getting together in more informal networks inside and outside
the workplace.
People and knowledge
management
Getting
staff to share knowledge is often the most difficult aspect of knowledge
management to accomplish. IRS Management Review examines the different practices
and tools which firms can use to encourage their employees to transfer
knowledge.
Implementing equal opportunities: employee
networking
IRS
journal Equal Opportunities Review looks at how five employers - HSBC Bank plc,
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Oxford University, Barnardos and BP
Amoco - use employee networking as an example of best practice in the
implementation of equal opportunities policies.
Innovation: Lessons from the future: innovating for radical success
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Looking ahead to the future of
work
The future of
work will not be radically different from the present; notions of work time and
workspace are becoming more flexible, but the permanent job will remain the
norm, writes Stephen Overell.
Lessons from
history
Recessions
can have a deep impact on the ideas that shape people management. Stephen
Overell looks back at how economic hard times have spawned new management
theories and asks what would be the casualties of a recession today.
The future role of HR: Human capital
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Turning
people into profits
It may be politically correct for employers to say their
workers are their greatest asset but, says Jonas Ridderstrile, firms must now
ensure a continuous transfusion of talent if they want to stay ahead of the
game.
A brief
history of human capital
As the concept of human capital has
evolved, the measurement of its value has transferred from labour to knowledge,
while its ownership has moved from the worker to the employer, argues Stephen
Overell.
Is HCM
dead in the water?
The Accounting for People
report promised much, but delivered little, argues Stephen Overell. From
Personnel Today.
Human
capital reporting: proving the value of people
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff investigates
whether employers are ready for the new human capital reporting requirements,
and explores the range of available measures for demonstrating the value of
human assets.
Human
capital management: One stop guide
Read the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide
on human capital management, written by Paul Kearns.
Achieving high performance: Onboarding: setting new leaders up for success
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Follow
your leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
Delivering
on expectations
Managing the
expectations of new recruits can make all the difference between staff settling
or walking away. Nic Paton explains why in Personnel Today.
IRS
induction survey: Part one and Part two
Read
the full results of the IRS survey of employers' induction practices.
Induction:
expert view
Stephen Taylor, editor of the CIPD's handbook People resourcing, highlights the value of
well-tailored induction programmes.
Induction
policy and Induction
checklist
From XpertHR's policies and documents
service.
Induction:
the basics
XpertHR's employment law reference manual contains
detailed guidance on inducting new employees.
Managing change: Giving something back
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Absent for a reason: making sense of
special leave
The latest IRS survey of special leave arrangements includes
a look at voluntary work provisions.
Investing in the
community
IRS Management Review examines the extent of business
involvement with the communities in which they operate and shows the benefits
that can be gained by investing in community activities in a planned and
structured way.
Do ethics
pay?
Writing in Personnel Today, Adele Kimber reports on the
latest evidence of the linkage between corporate ethics and profitability, and
profiles successful CSR initiatives at the Co-operative Bank and
Safeway.
Talent management: Managing talent in testing times
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Magnetic appeal
Business guru
Larry Hochman explains how to make your organisation a magnet for high potential
individuals.
Banking on high-fliers
Investment
banks are increasingly offering more than just financial incentives to attract
and motivate the most talented workers. Nic Paton
investigates.
Pooling its resources
Simon Kent profiles Sony
Europe's plans to identify and nurture top performers at all levels of the
organisation.
Talent
management: a guide
The
Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on talent management looks
at how employers can get the best out of the talent available to
them.
Topical update: Managing absence - the carrot or the stick?
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Tighter
policies push absence levels down
The CIPD's latest annual survey points to a renewed
downward trend in average absence, thanks to a tightening of employers' policies
and changes in their methods of recording sick leave.
How to
manage phased returns to work
The latest instalment in IRS Employment Review's series on
practical absence management focuses on phased and graduated returns to work
after long-term absence.
Short-term absence remains a top priority for
HR
Most employers are
prioritising efforts to cut short-term absences over efforts to control
long-term sick leave in 2005, according to new research from IRS.
Research
reveals effective ways to cut absence
Are incentives for attendance the key to cutting
unjustified sickness absence, or should employers be concentrating on work
organisation and job design? IRS reviews the latest research.
Absence
management
Read the Personnel
Today Management Resources one stop guide to absence
management.
Workshop: From business strategy to HR solutions
Wednesday 26 October, session one: 11.00 - 12.30
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Changes putting more stress on workforce
Personnel Today looks at the key findings of the
latest annual Roffey Park Management Agenda report on HR's key
challenges.
Sceptical
employers are holding HR back, IRS survey finds
Severe structural barriers are preventing HR from gaining
strategic influence, and in turn restraining the career prospects offered by the
profession, according to new research from IRS.
Stand and deliver: can HR do the business?
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds
up current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent
initiatives.
Strategy and leadership: Five challenges for the next five years
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Changes
putting more stress on workforce
Personnel Today looks at the key findings of the latest
annual Roffey Park Management Agenda report on HR's key challenges.
Looking ahead to the future of
work
The future of work will not be radically different from the
present; notions of work time and workspace are becoming more flexible, but the
permanent job will remain the norm, writes Stephen Overell.
Lessons from
history
Recessions can have a deep impact on the ideas that shape
people management. Stephen Overell looks back at how economic hard times have
spawned new management theories and asks what would be the casualties of a
recession today.
Innovation: More than just a makeover - innovative workplaces
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Going to work on an
Egg
Case study at Egg: Turnover rates have been kept down at
one call centre by focusing on the working environment and staff
comfort.
The new space
age
Pleasant, designed workplaces such as the £337m GCHQ
building can bring many benefits, from improved productivity and morale to an
enhanced corporate identity.
The future role of HR: What future for HR?
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Looking ahead to the future of
work
The future of work will not be radically different from the
present; notions of work time and workspace are becoming more flexible, but the
permanent job will remain the norm, writes Stephen Overell.
Lessons from
history
Recessions can have a deep impact on the ideas that shape
people management. Stephen Overell looks back at how economic hard times have
spawned new management theories and asks what would be the casualties of a
recession today.
Achieving high performance: Making it into the record books
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes
to drive high performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are
capable of inspiring others to perform to the best of their ability.
Case studies: Employee engagement initiatives
IRS profiles the different approaches to
building employee engagement taken by Centrica subsidiary One.Tel and Severn
Trent Water.
Engagement equals productivity
Employee engagement is
a trusted motivational tool, yet one firm in four believes staff are not
engaged, according to research from Personnel Today and HR consultancy
Chiumento. Johann Tasker presents the key findings of the research.
Managing change: Making change happen
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Rules of change
Colin Carnall, associate dean at Warwick Business
School, explains how HR can enable successful change.
How to make change happen
Sue Weekes profiles large-scale change management
initiatives at Co-operative Insurance Services and Colt
Telecommunications.
Road to success
Martin
Reddington draws on the main themes from his book, Transforming HR: creating
value through people, to provide a checklist that HR can use to ensure that
change projects succeed.
Leadership is key
Simon Kent
reports on how East Sussex County Council implemented a new HR IT system in 12
months.
Change management case studies
Inside
Whitbread's turnaround strategy, Case study:
culture change at HSA and Case studies:
Corporate turnaround and culture change XpertHR presents a
selection of links to named organisation case studies and other articles on the
role HR can play in turnaround strategies and culture change
initiatives.
Talent management: Tackling the pay gap - looking below the surface
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Equal pay
reviews
The Personnel Today
Management Resources one stop guide on equal pay reviews provides detailed
guidance on this area.
The equal pay challenge that refuses to
disappear
By Peter Schofield of EEF, the manufacturers'
organisation, writing in Personnel Today.
Equal
pay: the basics
XpertHR's
employment law reference manual provides legal guidance on equal pay.
Equal pay: the case law
XpertHR's case law reports section rounds up what the
courts have said about equal pay.
Topical update: Employee-driven organisations - implementing the Information and Consultation Directive
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Informing and consulting on the
up
The implementation of the Information and Consultation
Directive has prompted a flurry of activity to improve consultation
arrangements, albeit among a minority of employers, according to latest IRS
research.
Case
studies: Information and consultation in practice
IRS assesses the impact of the Information and Consultation
of Employees Regulations 2004 on pre-existing consultation arrangements at
Schrader Electronics and insurer Royal London.
Information and consultation: the union
response
Some unions view the
Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 as a threat to
existing collective bargaining arrangements rather than a chance to gain a
foothold in non-union organisations.
Information and Consultation Regulations in
context
IRS examines how the
Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 relate to other
obligations to consult and identifies some difficulties the new Regulations
might pose for employers.
Information and consultation obligations take
effect
Access XpertHR's
extensive range of resources on the new Regulations, which came into effect on 6
April 2005.
Information and consultation of employees:
the basics
Key
requirements of the legislation and guidance on possible approaches employers
may take are provided in the XpertHR employment law reference
manual.
Workshop: Effectively positioning and presenting the HR case
Wednesday 26 October, session two: 14.00 - 15.30
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Sceptical
employers are holding HR back, IRS survey finds
Severe structural barriers are preventing HR from gaining
strategic influence, and in turn restraining the career prospects offered by the
profession, according to new research from IRS.
Stand and deliver: can HR do the business?
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds
up current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent
initiatives.
Opening keynote: Leading through turbulence
Wednesday 26 October, session three: 16.00 - 17.45
Institute creates blueprint for
leadership success
The latest idea for filling the skills vacuum at the top of
UK plc is the creation of a blueprint to guide leaders in defining and
developing their roles. Margaret Kubicek reports in Training
Magazine.
Follow your
leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
Realising leadership potential through
emotional intelligence
Margaret Kubicek looks at the
importance of emotional intelligence in international leadership development and
finds out how leaders can improve their emotional intelligence
skills.
Strategy and leadership: Demonstrating people make the difference
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Turning people into profits
It may be politically
correct for employers to say their workers are their greatest asset but, says
Jonas Ridderstrile, firms must now ensure a continuous transfusion of talent if
they want to stay ahead of the game.
A brief history of human capital
As the concept of human
capital has evolved, the measurement of its value has transferred from labour to
knowledge, while its ownership has moved from the worker to the employer, argues
Stephen Overell.
Is HCM
dead in the water?
The Accounting for
People report promised much, but delivered little, argues Stephen Overell. From
Personnel Today.
Human
capital reporting: proving the value of people
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff investigates
whether employers are ready for the new human capital reporting requirements,
and explores the range of available measures for demonstrating the value of
human assets.
Human
capital management: One stop guide
Read the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop
guide on human capital management, written by Paul
Kearns.
Innovation: Contextual intelligence: a hallmark of great business leaders
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Leadership is key
Simon Kent reports on how East Sussex County Council
implemented a new HR IT system in 12 months.
Institute creates blueprint for
leadership success
The latest idea for filling the skills vacuum at the top of
UK plc is the creation of a blueprint to guide leaders in defining and
developing their roles. Margaret Kubicek reports in Training
Magazine.
Follow your
leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
The future role of HR: Outsourcing and insourcing: the options for HR
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Outsourcing should be about more than
cutting costs
Personnel Today's special report on outsourcing
investigates the strategic significance of outsourcing and the vital role played
by HR. The report includes profiles of outsourcing initiatives at DC Leisure
Management, Jones Lang LaSalle, KPMG and Vauxhall.
Outsourcing executive selection, Outsourcing your payroll function and What are
the pros and cons of outsourcing recruitment?
XpertHR presents a
range of in-depth content on outsourcing specific functions.
Outsourcing the employment
relationship
The rise of outsourcing
could render the traditional employment relationship obsolete, in turn
undermining the whole notion of human resource management. By Stephen Overell,
writing in Personnel Today.
How to
manage outsourcing partnerships
Richard
Houghton, managing director of Xchanging HR Services, explains why an
outsourcing partnership could be just what you're looking for.
Achieving high performance: How to maximise performance
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Stepping up performance
management
By Keith Rodgers, writing in Personnel Today.
Performance management: policy and
practice
IRS Employment Review, looks at how 49 employers manage
performance.
What a
performance
Writing in Personnel Today, Keith Rodgers explores the four
core areas that really make or break a performance management
programme.
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes
to drive high performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are
capable of inspiring others to perform to the best of their ability.
Managing change: Deep change: a radical approach to leadership development
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Leadership is key
Simon Kent reports on how East Sussex County Council
implemented a new HR IT system in 12 months.
Institute creates blueprint for
leadership success
The latest idea for filling the skills vacuum at the top of
UK plc is the creation of a blueprint to guide leaders in defining and
developing their roles. Margaret Kubicek reports in Training
Magazine.
Follow your
leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
Realising leadership potential through
emotional intelligence
Margaret Kubicek looks at the
importance of emotional intelligence in international leadership development and
finds out how leaders can improve their emotional intelligence
skills.
Talent management: Strategies for retaining talent
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Effective retention strategies and Adopting a coherent approach to retaining
staff
IRS Employment Review looks at trends in labour turnover,
and presents case studies on approaching the retention challenge.
Talent management: a guide
The Personnel Today
Management Resources one stop guide on talent management looks at how employers
can get the best out of the talent available to them.
How to keep them
keen
Five HR directors reveal their approach to keeping the best
performers.
Forward
thinking
By creating a 'succession pool' of existing talented staff,
the Economist Group not only increased their motivation, but improved staff
retention rates. Simon Kent reports.
Topical update: Employment law update
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Are you prepared for the new TUPE
regulations?
John McMullen, professor of labour law at the University of
Leeds, looks at the implications for employers of the reforms to the Transfer of
Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, which come into force
on 6 April 2006.
Public sector to have duty to promote
gender equality
The Government has set out its proposals for the
introduction of a duty on public sector bodies to promote gender equality,
including implementing specific equality goals and publishing an equal pay
policy statement.
Use of new tribunal forms becomes
mandatory
The use of the new employment tribunal claim and response
forms, which were introduced on 1 October 2004, becomes mandatory from 1 October
2005.
Types of contract: the basics
XpertHR's
employment law reference manual has guidance on the different types of
employment that exist.
How to protect the employer against
claims of unfair dismissal
XpertHR's How to service provides step-by-step
guidance on how to avoid claims of unfair dismissal.
Government
updates advice on definition of disability
The Government is updating its guidance on determining
whether an individual is disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination
legislation, to take account of changes to the law coming into force on 5
December 2005.
Work and Families Bill
published
The Government has confirmed measures to increase paternity
and maternity leave with the publication of the Work and Families
Bill.
Workshop: HR's guide to the pensions crisis
Thursday 27 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Influential survey paints gloomy picture of pensions
market
UK employers are battling to keep their occupational
pension schemes open in an increasingly difficult environment, according to new
research from the National Association of Pension Funds.
Pensions:
the basics
XpertHR's employment law reference manual provides legal
guidance on pensions.
Agreement reached on public sector
pensions
The Government and trade unions have reached an agreement
over the reform of public sector pension schemes for civil servants, NHS workers
and teachers.
Public sector employers expect strikes
over pensions
One in three public sector employers anticipates a
collective dispute over the next 12 months, with pensions the most likely cause,
according to new research from IRS.
The complex matter of pensions tax
simplification
IRS journal Occupational Pensions looks ahead to Pensions
A-day (6 April 2006), on which the eight existing tax regimes covering pensions
will be swept away and replaced by a new "simplified" system.
Keynote: The changing face of success
Thursday 27 October, session two: 11.30 - 12.45
Dear Charles, you were
wrong
Were we conned by predictions about the end of work as we
know it? An open letter to social philosopher, Charles Handy, from Stephen
Overell.
Looking
ahead to the future of work
The future of work will not be
radically different from the present; notions of work time and workspace are
becoming more flexible, but the permanent job will remain the norm, writes
Stephen Overell.
Spiritual
intelligence in leadership training
Margaret Kubicek investigates how
spiritual intelligence - the individual's capacity for meaning, vision and value
in life - can be used as a motivational tool in leadership training.
The spiritual workplace
Spirituality at work is a joke, right? No, not entirely,
thinks Stephen Overell.
The future role of HR: What does your CEO want from HR?
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Sceptical
employers are holding HR back, IRS survey finds
Severe structural barriers are preventing HR from gaining
strategic influence, and in turn restraining the career prospects offered by the
profession, according to new research from IRS.
Stand and deliver: can HR do the business?
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds
up current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent
initiatives.
Strategy and leadership: HR: becoming a strategic business partner
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Sceptical
employers are holding HR back, IRS survey finds
Severe structural barriers are preventing HR from gaining
strategic influence, and in turn restraining the career prospects offered by the
profession, according to new research from IRS.
Stand and deliver: can HR do the business?
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds
up current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent
initiatives.
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes
to drive high performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are
capable of inspiring others to perform to the best of their
ability.
Case studies: Employee engagement initiatives
IRS profiles the different approaches to
building employee engagement taken by Centrica subsidiary One.Tel and Severn
Trent Water.
Engagement equals productivity
Employee engagement is
a trusted motivational tool, yet one firm in four believes staff are not
engaged, according to research from Personnel Today and HR consultancy
Chiumento. Johann Tasker presents the key findings of the
research.
Achieving high performance: Coaching: a set of skills or a way of life?
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Best practice in coaching (1): Best
behaviour
The first article in Training Magazine's new series on
effective coaching looks at techniques to manage the behaviour of those being
coached.
Best practice in coaching (2):
Goal-seekers
The series continues with a look at ways of helping those
being coached to identify goals and develop learning plans to achieve
them.
A defining time for
coaching
Weaving coaching into the fabric of the organisation is the
way forward for this people development tool. By Stephanie Sparrow, writing in
Personnel Today.
How executive coaching
works
From IRS Employment Review.
How to achieve effective coaching
Read Training Magazine's five-part series on how
to achieve effective coaching, by Ashridge Consulting. Part one: strategic objectives and
core competencies; Part two: the coaching relationship; Part three:
how the coach can innovate; Part four: pause for reflection; Part five:
client confidential.
Managing change: How to engage line managers
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Honda: Revving up for
success
Each year, hundreds of employees from Honda's franchised
dealer network are imbued with the corporate culture at the Honda (UK)
Institute.
Cabinet Office: Aim for the right
mix
With the Civil Service trying to recruit a workforce that
more accurately reflects those it serves, the Cabinet Office in particular is
developing a host of new diversity initiatives.
Private sector leads on employee
engagement
Private sector workers are more likely to believe that
their employer knows where it is going and to feel pride in their organisation
than their public sector counterparts, a new study reveals.
Engagement equals productivity
Employee engagement is a trusted motivational tool, yet one
firm in four believes staff are not engaged, according to research from
Personnel Today and HR consultancy Chiumento.
Case
study: The high-tech approach to motivating staff
Mobile operator 3 builds employee commitment by putting its
brand message at the centre of all HR activities, from developing video
interviewing to weekly makeovers for its corporate HQ.
Line
managers hold the key to employee engagement
Read the results of IRS research, looking at how
organisations are attempting to promote employee engagement.
How to
increase employee motivation
Practical guidance from XpertHR's How to
service.
Talent management: A 'decision science' for human capital
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Turning people into profits
It may be politically
correct for employers to say their workers are their greatest asset but, says
Jonas Ridderstrile, firms must now ensure a continuous transfusion of talent if
they want to stay ahead of the game.
A brief history of human capital
As the concept of human
capital has evolved, the measurement of its value has transferred from labour to
knowledge, while its ownership has moved from the worker to the employer, argues
Stephen Overell.
Is HCM
dead in the water?
The Accounting for
People report promised much, but delivered little, argues Stephen Overell. From
Personnel Today.
Human
capital reporting: proving the value of people
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff investigates
whether employers are ready for the new human capital reporting requirements,
and explores the range of available measures for demonstrating the value of
human assets.
Human
capital management: One stop guide
Read the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop
guide on human capital management, written by Paul
Kearns.
Topical update: Shattering the glass ceiling
Thursday 27 October, session three: 14.15 - 15.00
Equal pay
reviews
The Personnel Today
Management Resources one stop guide on equal pay reviews provides detailed
guidance on this area.
Women and
Work Commission considers mandatory pay audits
The introduction of mandatory equal pay audits may be
required if the gender pay gap is to be closed, according to the Women and Work
Commission.
The equal pay challenge that refuses to
disappear
By Peter Schofield of EEF, the manufacturers'
organisation, writing in Personnel Today.
Equal
pay: the basics
XpertHR's
employment law reference manual provides legal guidance on equal pay.
Equal pay: the case law
XpertHR's case law reports section rounds up what the
courts have said about equal pay.
Strategy and leadership: Inspirational leadership - leadership lessons from Shakespeare's Henry V
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Drawing on the Bard for
inspiration
Personnel Today reports from the local government HR body
Socpo's 2004 conference, at which Laurence Olivier's son Richard Olivier took HR
'once more into the breach', using the plot of Henry V to show delegates the
numerous different facets they need to display if they are to wage a successful
campaign in business.
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes
to drive high performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are
capable of inspiring others to perform to the best of their ability.
Follow your
leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
Realising leadership potential through
emotional intelligence
Margaret Kubicek looks at the
importance of emotional intelligence in international leadership development and
finds out how leaders can improve their emotional intelligence
skills.
Innovation: Innovation as unusual
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Employee creativity can benefit the
bottom line
By entrepreneurs John Barnes and Richard Richardson,
writing in Personnel Today.
Tapping into
creativity
Aart Goud and Godelieve Spaas of Rotterdam School of
Management argue the case for embedding innovation into management development
programmes. From Training Magazine.
Training managers to use
creativity
The charity Arts & Business delivers 'arts-based
training' by providing opportunities for business to work with the artistic
community to help participants build competency in creativity, innovation and
improvisation.
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes to drive high
performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are capable of
inspiring others to perform to the best of their ability.
The future role of HR: Organisational renewal
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Knowledge management is an HR
issue
HR professionals tend to be wary of knowledge management
because so many initiatives that come under this heading are IT-led and tend to
downgrade or even ignore the people management issues.
How to get the best out of knowledge
workers
Knowledge workers are the key to competitive advantage in
many organisations, so what are the most effective techniques for managing
them?
Achieving high performance: Developing our leaders
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Training managers to use
creativity
The charity Arts & Business delivers 'arts-based
training' by providing opportunities for business to work with the artistic
community to help participants build competency in creativity, innovation and
improvisation.
Case study: C&G's Inspirational
Leadership Programme
Mortgage specialist C&G hopes
to drive high performance by helping its senior managers become leaders who are
capable of inspiring others to perform to the best of their ability.
Follow your
leader
Antony Adshead talks to two large organisations to find out
what leadership means for them.
Realising leadership potential through
emotional intelligence
Margaret Kubicek looks at the
importance of emotional intelligence in international leadership development and
finds out how leaders can improve their emotional intelligence
skills.
Managing change: How did I miss that?: Why smart people make silly mistakes and how to correct them
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Well
versed in nonsense
There is a concerted campaign to empty words of their
meaning and HR is one of the worst culprits, argues Stephen Overell.
Talent management: Improving the impact of reward - working smarter not harder
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Developing reward strategy is a
priority for the coming year
When asked about their reward
priorities for the coming year, many employers say they will be developing their
reward strategies; others are grappling slowly with problematic issues such as
equal pay, according to new IRS research.
Tibbett & Britten Group's global
reward strategy
IRS investigates how TBG's HR team met the challenge of
introducing a cost-neutral reward strategy to build consistency and motivate its
global workforce.
Effective retention strategies and Adopting
a coherent approach to retaining staff
IRS Employment Review looks at trends in labour turnover,
and presents case studies on approaching the retention
challenge.
Topical update: Spiritual capital: a new philosophy for business
Thursday 27 October, session four: 16.00 - 17.30
Spiritual intelligence in leadership
training
Margaret Kubicek investigates how spiritual intelligence -
the individual's capacity for meaning, vision and value in life - can be used as
a motivational tool in leadership training.
The spiritual workplace
Spirituality at work is
a joke, right? No, not entirely, thinks Stephen Overell.
Strategy and leadership: Making a difference
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Stand and deliver: can HR do the
business?
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff rounds up
current research on HR's strategic role and presents case studies of recent
initiatives.
Make most of your employee
networks
Will Hutton, chief executive of The Work Foundation argues
that working people no longer feel allegiances to the institutions that used to
buttress working life. Rather, they are getting together in more informal
networks inside and outside the workplace.
People and knowledge
management
Getting staff to share knowledge is often the most
difficult aspect of knowledge management to accomplish. IRS Management Review
examines the different practices and tools which firms can use to encourage
their employees to transfer knowledge.
Innovation: Engaging commitment for action
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Private sector leads on employee
engagement
Private sector workers are more likely to believe that
their employer knows where it is going and to feel pride in their organisation
than their public sector counterparts, a new study reveals.
Engagement equals productivity
Employee engagement is
a trusted motivational tool, yet one firm in four believes staff are not
engaged, according to research from Personnel Today and HR consultancy
Chiumento. Johann Tasker presents the key findings of the research.
Case
study: The high-tech approach to motivating staff
Mobile operator 3 builds employee commitment by putting its
brand message at the centre of all HR activities, from developing video
interviewing to weekly makeovers for its corporate HQ.
Line
managers hold the key to employee engagement
Read the results of IRS research, looking at how
organisations are attempting to promote employee engagement.
How to
increase employee motivation
Practical guidance from XpertHR's How to
service.
The future role of HR: HR's global influence
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
The future for international managers:
Gallaher
Gallaher, the UK-based international tobacco company, has
introduced assessment centres, 360-degree feedback and tailored development -
all based on competencies.
Pfizer: To the power of
seven
Pfizer's head of corporate training and development
explains why he introduced the famous 'habits of effective people' to the UK
subsidiary.
Employment in the global
village
How are globalisation, new technology and moves towards
European integration impacting on the human resource strategies and policies of
transnational companies?
Developing a global reward strategy at
Tibbett & Britten Group
By Sarah Welfare, writing in IRS
Employment Review.
Case study: Global training at
Microsoft
Microsoft's global training strategy, designed to build
talent and improve organisational capability, centres on a three-way partnership
between employees, managers and the company.
Achieving high performance: Managing high performers
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Why it pays to take the long view on
training leaders
A tough trading climate has a significant impact on a
company's training budget. Assessment and development plans are generally among
the first casualties of a downturn.
Tips for developing director level
training programmes
By John Weston, director for training and development at
the Institute of Directors, writing on personneltoday.com.
Magnetic appeal
Business guru
Larry Hochman explains how to make your organisation a magnet for high potential
individuals.
Banking on high-fliers
Investment
banks are increasingly offering more than just financial incentives to attract
and motivate the most talented workers. Nic Paton
investigates.
Pooling its resources
Simon Kent profiles Sony
Europe's plans to identify and nurture top performers at all levels of the
organisation.
Talent
management: a guide
The
Personnel Today Management Resources one stop guide on talent management looks
at how employers can get the best out of the talent available to
them.
Managing change: Achieving change in the public sector
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Private sector leads on employee
engagement
Private sector workers are more likely to believe that
their employer knows where it is going and to feel pride in their organisation
than their public sector counterparts, a new study reveals.
Public sector leads the way on
board-level HR
Public sector HR functions are more likely to have
board-level representation than their equivalents in the private sector,
according to new IRS research.
Rules of change
Colin Carnall, associate dean at Warwick Business
School, explains how HR can enable successful change.
Road to success
Martin
Reddington draws on the main themes from his book, Transforming HR: creating
value through people, to provide a checklist that HR can use to ensure that
change projects succeed.
Leadership is key
Simon Kent
reports on how East Sussex County Council implemented a new HR IT system in 12
months.
Talent management: Living longer: re-inventing retirement
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Using age-diversity policies to
attract and retain older workers
Rachel Suff investigates in IRS
Employment Review.
Case
study 1: Nationwide opts for flexible retirement
By Charlotte Wolff,
writing in IRS Employment Review.
Case study 2: National Maritime Museum turns the tide on
ageism
By Charlotte
Wolff.
Asda leads the way on employing older
workers
Asda's ground-breaking measures to recruit and retain older
workers include flexibility over working patterns and retirement
ages.
What impact will the age Regulations
have on the workplace?
Christine Jenner of Winckworth
Sherwood identifies some of the main policies, procedures and areas of workplace
culture that will be affected by the age discrimination Regulations from 1
October 2006.
Legal Q&A: Age discrimination
Regulations
Writing in Personnel Today, Sue Nickson and Clare Boneham
of Hammonds answer frequently asked questions on the implications for employers
on the age discrimination Regulations.
How to
prepare for the forthcoming age discrimination legislation and How to
use policies and monitoring to avoid discrimination
Practical guidance from XpertHR's How to service.
Age
discrimination
Detailed legal
guidance from XpertHR's reference manual.
Topical update: Asking the right questions
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Case
study: The high-tech approach to motivating staff
Mobile operator 3
builds employee commitment by putting its brand message at the centre of all HR
activities, from developing video interviewing to weekly makeovers for its
corporate HQ.
Nice
little earner
Personnel Today looks at how employee engagement
initiatives have boosted the bottom line at Asda, Nationwide, American Express
and textile manufacturer WL Gore.
Case studies: Employee engagement initiatives
IRS profiles the different approaches to
building employee engagement taken by Centrica subsidiary One.Tel and Severn
Trent Water.
Line managers hold the key to employee
engagement
Read the results of IRS research, looking at how
organisations are attempting to promote employee engagement.
Engagement equals productivity
Employee engagement is
a trusted motivational tool, yet one firm in four believes staff are not
engaged, according to research from Personnel Today and HR consultancy
Chiumento. Johann Tasker presents the key findings of the
research.
Workshop: Coaching your staff to success
Friday 28 October, session one: 09.30 - 11.00
Best practice in coaching (1): Best
behaviour
The first article in Training Magazine's new series on
effective coaching looks at techniques to manage the behaviour of those being
coached.
Best practice in coaching (2):
Goal-seekers
The series continues with a look at ways of helping those
being coached to identify goals and develop learning plans to achieve
them.
A defining time for
coaching
Weaving coaching into the fabric of the organisation is the
way forward for this people development tool. By Stephanie Sparrow, writing in
Personnel Today.
How executive coaching
works
From IRS Employment Review.
How to achieve effective coaching
Read Training Magazine's five-part series on how
to achieve effective coaching, by Ashridge Consulting: Part one: strategic objectives and
core competencies; Part two: the coaching relationship; Part three:
how the coach can innovate; Part four: pause for reflection; Part five:
client confidential.
Closing keynote: The HR value proposition: the next agenda for delivering results
Friday 28 October, session two: 11.30 - 13.15
A brief
history of human capital
As the concept of human capital
has evolved, the measurement of its value has transferred from labour to
knowledge, while its ownership has moved from the worker to the
employer.
Human
capital reporting: proving the value of people
Writing in IRS Employment Review, Rachel Suff investigates
whether employers are ready for the new human capital reporting requirements,
and explores the range of available measures for demonstrating the value of
human assets.
Human
capital management: One stop guide
Read the Personnel Today Management Resources one stop
guide on human capital management, written by Paul
Kearns.
