All about HR

Andrew DodmanDeputy Director of HR

CiCs Departmental Meeting

10 December 2010

Agenda

• What is HR?• How is it organised here? • What do I do?• What’s happening now and in the near

future

What is HR?

Managing Processes?

Hiring?

Hiring?

Firing?

Staff well-being?

Staff communications?

• Pragmatic• Solution focussed • Inclusive• Partnership• Expert • Sector-leading

Challenging the usual HR

stereotypes…

Employment Life Cycle

Workforce Planning

Recruitment &

Selection

On-going

(T&D, PM, Well-being, equality)

Pro

motio

n &

P

rog

ressio

n

Induction &

Probation

Complaint

s/

Concerns

End of Employment

Business Developme

nt

Business Support

The rest…

Training & Development

Equality & Diversity

Rewards & Benefits

Policy

Faculty aligned

R&S

Employment issues

Staff Well-being

Employee Relations

Strategy

Business Solutions

Safety Services

How are we organised

Your HR Team

Alastair Thirsk

Karen Smith

The kind of issues that arise…

• Recruitment & Selection• Policy/Procedures interpretation• Performance issues• Attendance• Sickness Absence/Ill-health• Disciplinary issues• Conflict & Aggression• Bullying & Harassment• Victimisation• Discrimination• Individual & collective complaints and grievances• Research Misconduct• Redundancy & Resignations• Conflict of interests• Whistleblowers• Immigration/PBS• Criminality – police record, cautions and convictions• Industrial action/dispute• Litigation

What do I do?

• Bit of everything…• Operational overview• Employee/Industrial Relations

• Litigation• Business Solutions Team

• E-Recruitment, uBASE, MyJob, MyTeam

• Workforce Information• New developments & process

redesign• LMS, redeployment, SAP

upgrade• Digitisation

From this…

136,500 sheets of paper saved per year!

To this…

HR Priorities…

• Leadership Development

• Equality & Diversity

HR Priorities…

• Health & Well-Being

Staff Wellbeing PortalWork life balanceStaff Support LineSOHS/counsellingStress managementSafety services

Priorities…

• Future sustainability (pensions, change management, reward, policy, staff costs, industrial relations)

• External context (funding, law, change)

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