Tag: 21st Century

With a personal affinity for change management borne out of transformative events in my life, I have witnessed its power to shape attitudes, behaviours, and thinking. In the fast-paced world of business, change management emerges as the transformative force that ignites the mind, heart, and soul of organisations.

Do not underestimate the strength of job evaluation in the organisational design process. Many companies are rightly worried in today’s world about the efficiency of their organisational structures.

African Bank does it again! They have been named Top Employer in the country by the Top Employers Institute for the second year in a row (News 24, Feb 2023). The survey looks at a number of HR domains ranging from people strategy, workplace environment, talent management and workplace equity, diversity and inclusion.

Remuneration committees have an onerous task of navigating one of the most contentious issues in almost any company – that of setting remuneration for executives and more recently overseeing the remuneration of the workers.

In the second part of this two-part series, I outline the skills that will be required by present-day HR professionals – for now and into the future. The future of work will place an extraordinary demand on HR professionals to lead their organisations strategically through this disruptive period.

In this two-part series, I outline the skills that will be required by present-day HR Professionals – for now and into the future. Due to the increasing automated and digitised world in which HR professionals need to serve their stakeholders, as well as the added intricacy of a VUCA environment, all HR professionals will need to upskill and reskill themselves to meet the challenges of this Future World of Work. 

Since the COVID-19 pandemic the world has been affected by many events that are now the new normal and businesses will now have to make strategic changes to the way they operate. These events are geo-political - the Russia-Ukraine war; logistical - supply-chain bottlenecks; economic - high energy prices, demand supply issues - global commodities pressures and chip shortages, rising inflation and possible recession.

When one thinks of remuneration data, one tends to think of payroll data specifically. This article aims to broaden thinking about a bigger pool of data that could be a critical strategic tool for people managers and business leaders in the future.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to the way the world goes about its business; namely, the way we socialise, the way we travel, the way we take care of our health, the way we shop, the way we do business, the way we structure our time and the way we work.

Job profiling is at the heart of all Human Capital practices. but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought around massive changes in the workplace across the board - so, are the current job profile standards still relevant? Before this important question is addressed, we cover the important foundations of Job profiling.