September 12th 2019
Post Meeting Notes: Responsible Business: How can HR Drive the Agenda?
Following our event on 10th September 2019, these post meeting notes summarise the key messages from the day. We were joined by speakers including Nick Dalton, Unilever, Dee Corrigan, Blueprint for Better Business, David Grayson, Cranfield School of Management, and our own Carmen von Rohr. Each had their own take on responsible business and how it is impacted by HR. What is HR's role in developing and implementing a responsible business strategy and what is a purpose led business? Read the notes to find out more.
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September 10th 2019
Responsible Business - Unilever
Unilever's Vice President HR Business Transformation gave this presentation explaining his view on Unilever's responsible business strategy. He adopts an approach including the seven great waves of HR: paternalism, power, process, profit, people, paradox and planet. How has the HR function changed over the years, starting from industrial relations to personnel to human resources, and how is responsibility linked to this?
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March 10th 2017
HR Modernisation - BP Case Study
In this case study from BP, Lucy Knight looks ath the HR modernisation programme at BP. The case study addresses the pressures from the external environment (oil price, changing context, demographic changes, technology) and why the programme was undertaken, implications for line manager accountability, lessons along the way and the value being delivered to the business.
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March 10th 2017
Building Capability: Outcomes for Leadership, Talent & Culture
This case study from Jane Storm, explores how Tesco responded to the external challenges in terms of their organisational model, leadership and finally HR. The case study looks at the “black art” of organisation design, what this has meant in practical terms and explores the implications for the capability of the HR function and the people in it.
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March 10th 2017
Mission Mastery: how to simplify organizational transformation
In this presentation, Brian Dive explores how organisations need to respond to the external challenges. The presentation looks at traps organisations fall into and the way they respond to external disruption. Brian looks at the 5 pillars in “Mission Mastery” and explores the issues around knowledge, power and culture and the implications for organisational design.
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March 10th 2017
Thriving in Complex Systems - Increasing Organisational Productivity
This presentation from Sudhanshu Palsule looks at complexity and complex systems in contrast to linear systems and linear thinking and attempts to answer three important questions around productivity and leadership.
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