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The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand

HR and Business Performance Management

Presented by The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand
Led by Geoff Summers FHRINZ

Introduction

It is not new to talk about HR aligning itself to the business, or achieving organisational excellence; as quoted by Dave Ulrich in 1998 "...HR has never been more necessary. The competitive forces that managers face today and will continue to confront in the future demand organizational excellence. The efforts to achieve such excellence - through a focus on learning, quality, teamwork, and re-engineering - are driven by the way organizations get things done and how they treat people. Those are fundamental HR issues. To state it plainly: achieving organizational excellence must be the work of HR." Yet this is still a topic of significant discussion in Human Resource Management (HRM) circles today.

This raises an obvious question, "What should we be doing about this?" HRINZ has a series of courses to take practitioners on a journey which answers that question. This course is one of those, it builds on the HR Foundations Course and prepares practitioners for the Strategic HRM Course (assuming that appropriate practical experience is also being accumulated).

Level: 3-5 years HR experience

Course Description

HR and Business Performance is an intensive, highly practical workshop that provides participants with an understanding of the changing role of the HR function and the need to demonstrate a bottom-line contribution.

This course will take practitioners to the next level of HRM, the medium term or operational level, and be part of the necessary preparation for them to move towards the Strategic HRM level.

Timetable

Learning Objectives

  • Module 1: Knowing the Business - including the identification and understanding of business models and the affects that variations on those models have on internal HRM activity.
  • Module 2: HRM Framework - including a standardised framework of high level HRM topics; and how to determine whether a particular HRM topic, within the enterprise concerned, should become either: a formal policy; a documented process or procedure; or just a regular well understood practice.
  • Module 3: Using Business Knowledge and the HRM Framework Together - how they should come together to inform the differences in how HRM is practiced within the enterprise. And finally -
  • Module 4: Business Case Preparation - a brief overview of the business case investigation, analysis, decision-making and presentation process - in order that the HR department may obtain the necessary resources to implement the business decisions relating to Module 3.

HRINZ HR Competencies Include

  • Business Knowledge (Value Chain)
  • HR Delivery (HR Measurement)
  • Strategic Contribution (Culture Management, Change Management, Strategic Decision Making, Customer Focus)
  • Business Technology (Facilitation Skills)

Who Should Attend

This course is aimed at mid-level to senior HR practitioners who have reached a high level of understanding of tactical HRM, either through attendance at the HRINZ HR Foundations course (or some other appropriate course of HRM learning) combined with some practical experience, or through practical experience in HRM for a period of 3-5 years, or both. It is therefore expected that participants will already have a reasonably thorough understanding of tactical HRM activities within enterprises (either public sector, private sector or both).

It will also be of value to more senior staff who may have risen through the HRM profession but missed some of the key learning (because that material was not always available) about the proper alignment of HR with the business.

The Workshop Leader

This course will be presented by Geoff Summers. Geoff was a National President of HRINZ in 2005 and 2006 and is a Fellow of HRINZ. He has a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction) and a Master of Business Studies in Human Resource Management (with Distinction), both from Massey University. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.

Geoff is a part-time Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington where he taught Management Skills (an Emotional Intelligence course) in 2006 and 2007, and Human Resources Management between 2006 and 2008, on the MBA programme.

In 2009 and 2010 Geoff delivered the HRINZ Business Case Writing for HR Practitioners course.

2012 Date and Venue

Wellington 25-27 July 2012 (Register Now)
Venue TBC

Registration Fees

HRINZ Members $1995.00 + gst
Non Members $2395.00 + gst

The course fee includes an interactive workbook, lunches and morning and afternoon teas. A copy of "Human Resource Management: Transforming Theory into Innovative Practice" (Hartel, Fujimoto, Strybosch and Fitzpatrick 2007) will also be provided to each attendee and will be a key tool within this course.

Cancellations

Please see the cancellation policy.

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