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the IES HR Network
IES HR Network themes
Organisational performance
theme leader:
Annette Cox
This theme focuses on how HR and people management can and does affect organisational performance. It brings together some of the ideas from our other network themes to understand how they can impact overall performance. It covers areas such as human capital, leadership, the employee value chain, the impact of health and well-being on performance, and organisational/job design. It looks at the relationship between HR as a function, and organisational performance, as well as the ways organisational and HR strategy link. The theme also addresses some of the softer areas involved in Organisational Development, such as change management and culture.
Resourcing and development
theme leader:
Valerie Garrow
The Resourcing and Development theme focuses on how to ensure that organisations have the right numbers of people in the right place at the right time with the right skills. It covers resourcing issues such as recruitment, labour markets, graduate programmes and workforce planning, as well as development issues including career, leadership, management and employee development. We also explore those issues which span the two areas, such as talent management and succession planning, as well as key areas such as learning methods and processes, development strategy and evaluating the effectiveness of development programmes.
Reward and performance
theme leader:
Peter Reilly
This Network theme looks at topical issues in the reward and performance management world. Senior HR managers and reward specialists are constantly looking for guidance on, and practical solutions to, a range of common reward and performance management problems. Although these are often treated as separate topics in organisations, we frequently see the connection between the two, not least in the design and operation of performance related pay.
Motivation and well-being
theme leader:
Dilys Robinson
In today’s business environment, it is people who matter. A highly motivated, committed and engaged workforce will give a company an invaluable competitive edge and will attract good people to work for, and stay with, the organisation. Employers want the best, but HR professionals know that this cannot be achieved without good HR practice and attention to work-life balance – and they also know how easy it is to break employees’ trust and turn commitment into disengagement. This network focuses on these softer yet highly important issues.
HR functional excellence
theme leader:
Peter Reilly
It seems HR, more than any other function, is concerned with purpose and role. This theme brings together our work on organisational structures, roles, skills, career management, training and development needs, relationships to stakeholders (employees, line managers, senior executives, external customers and shareholders), resourcing the function, sourcing activities, links to the organisational strategy, measurement and monitoring and the content of the function’s work (especially in relation to other functions). It looks at the whole picture of how the function operates.
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