Annual Conference 2017: Smaller function, bigger issues: Where next for HR and people management?

Past HR Network Event

5 October 2017

Event resources

Slides

View the slides (for HRN members)

Working futures: Trends, myths and challenges for HR
Stephen Bevan, Head of HR Research Development, IES

A CEO's perspective
Helen Fairfoul, Chief Executive, Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)

HR and the UK's Flexible Labour Market
Sian Moore, Emloyment Relations & HR Management; Director, Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Greenwich Business School

The death of strategic HRM and business partnering: Failure to deliver, or wrong?
Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University

Talent management at the heart of our people strategy
Sandy Begbie, Director, Global People, Organisation and Culture Integration

Where is HR in the public sector?
Caroline Nugent, Director of HR & OD, oneSource

HR next generation: Reflections from UK and French early-career HR professionals
Stephen Bevan, Head of HR Research Development, IES

Further reading

Darkening skies? IES Perspectives on HR 2017
Penny Tamkin (ed)

This conference covered such topics as:

  • HR function post-Ulrich

  • Changing forms of work

  • Working lives

  • HR as the moral compass of business

  • Intergenerational HR

Speakers

Sandy Begbie, Global Head of People, Organisation & Culture Integration, Standard Life Aberdeen plc

Helen Fairfoul, Chief Executive, Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA)

Sian Moore, Employment Relations & HR Management; Director, Work and Employment Research Unit, University of Greenwich Business School

Caroline Nugent, Director of HR & OD, OneSource/LB Havering

Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University

Chair: Stephen Bevan, Head of HR Research Development, Institute for Employment Studies

Facilitator: Duncan Brown, Head of HR Consultancy, Institute for Employment Studies

Event details

The HR function finds itself in turbulent times with much to contend with. Shifting forms of work, frequently static or low pay growth affecting morale, longer working lives, constrained career options, and all delivered by a smaller, post-Ulrich function. Our conference in 2017 looked at this mix through the views of academics who had observed the traumas of HR over many years and HR practitioners who were in the thick of it.