Dear Kay

Welcome to your first monthly HR e-newsletter!

Human Capital Development, Organisational Design, how to create a learning organisation, Talent Management and HR Metrics are some of the most pressing issues affecting the HR industry. Throughout this 12 part series, we aim to give you relevant information about these topics and highlight some up and coming conferences and training courses dedicated to help you, as an HR Professional stay up to date with the cutting edge HR developments in 2009.

In the knowledge economy of today, the relationship between individual employees and their employing organisation is undergoing fundamental changes. Employees are increasingly becoming a challenging resource to manage for the company and mobile investors of their own skills. HR Directors from leading organisations worldwide now agree that a firm’s success largely depends on a well-formulated and implemented human capital strategy in order to cope with these changes and add value to business.

In an article by Jerry Molefe, writer for HR Future, he demonstrates how important it is for HR professionals to raise the profile of HR within an organisation….

“Ensure the people item is on senior management’s agenda. Board members and executives tend to be interested in the bottom line and always refer to the people issues as the ‘softer’ issues of the business. Most of the discussions centre around the financial, marketing and operational issues of the business. The HR leader must influence the leadership of the organisation…” to read on Click here
-Source: HR Future, Pg 28, January, 2009. "REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM HR FUTURE MAGAZINE JANUARY 2009"

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 This month's HR Quote:

“People make or break your business, especially in an environment of chronic skills shortages. HR must make itself heard, and must be constantly

improving the company culture and working towards preferred employer status,” Alan Knott-Craig, MD, iBurst.

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