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transformative HR
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Dr. Shane Hodgson
Enterprise Transformation Consulting, Centurion, South Africa
HR Africa Conference, November 2013
Outline
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Where are we focusing our time
right now?
• Given the lack of credibility that still taints the HR function and its
incumbents in many South African organisations. HR practitioners may
therefore perceive themselves as unable to “enforce ethical business
behaviour” (Van Vuuren and Eiselen, 2006)
• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/ethics-human-resources.html)
SHRM Code of Ethics – Guidelines on
Fairness and Justice
http://www.shrm.org/about/Pages/code-of-ethics.aspx
HR is about Doing the Right Thing
http://www.cipd.co.uk/pm/peoplemanagement/b/weblog/archive/2013/11/06/goffee-and-jones-39-hr-is-about-doing-the-
right-thing-39.aspx
Promoting Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
http://skills.oecd.org/informationbycountry/southafrica.html
An Example – Apprenticeships
• Barclays UK recently opened the door to its 1,000th apprentice , just over a
year since the launch of the programme. This follows a commitment earlier
this year to double the figure to 2,000 by 2015, with a continued focus on
specifically targeting young people aged 16-24 not in education,
employment or training (NEET).
• The 1,000 new apprenticeships will include roles in parts of the business
that have typically focused on recruiting graduates, with 12 places in the
Corporate and Investment businesses set to become available from the
start of July. There will also be six roles in digital marketing and a host of
opportunities in branches, customer support and technology, spread across
the UK.
• Similar schemes are in operation with UK companies like AON, AVIVA,
Boots, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, KPMG, PWC, Logica and many more.
True Diversity Management – HP Model
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by
no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is,
ever be put together a second time.” F. Nietzsche
Befehl ist Befehl – Challenging Wrong
Decisions
Nuremberg Principle IV states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order
of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility
under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.“
• While one might expect, for example, a marketing director to argue for a
bigger marketing budget or an IT manager to lobby for new computers, it is
more difficult to imagine HR managers calling for measures that would lift
employee morale or improve working conditions, such as a pay rise or
increased holiday entitlement.
• This perhaps reflects the extent to which HR departments operate as a tool of
senior management for imposing their will on the workforce, rather than as a
medium for genuine dialogue with the aim of engaging and motivating
employees.
• http://highpaycentre.org/blog/how-should-hr-be-more-involved-in-high-pay-decisions
Does HR Deservedly Have a Bad
Reputation?
In Summary - Employees Want DREAMS
Goffee and Jones (2013) believe that employees want these things, in their dreams:
The proverb says ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man
how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’. However, true sustainability is not
about learning ‘how to fish’ but about understanding what the fish itself needs to
grow and reproduce itself – and to make sure that these conditions are
sustained.