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HR and Line Management – Putting people policy into practice
Wednesday 4th June 2008
Vicky Wright
President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Vicky Wright will use CIPD research into line management and HR, as well as taking some case studies, to show how line management capacity to manage people can be expanded.
Human resources departments are critically dependent on line managers to implement human resources policies. Individualised learning, performance related pay, employee engagement and coaching and mentoring initiatives all place accountability on the front line manager. Is HR expecting too much of line managers? Where are their strengths and weaknesses? How can HR improve implementation of their initiatives through the line? Vicky Wright will use CIPD research into line management and HR, as well as taking some case studies, to show how line management capacity to manage people can be expanded. She will also reflect on why the 'problem with line management' is actually often a 'problem with HR and top management'.
Vicky Wright is currently President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She has worked in human resource management for over 30 years.
During the first 15 years of her career Vicky worked in line personnel management and industrial relations, as well as undertaking research at Bristol Polytechnic and being an employee relations advisor for the Confederation of British Industry.
Since 1986 Vicky has been a consultant. She was Managing Director of Hay Management Consultants Ltd and Worldwide Head of Reward Consulting before joining Ernst & Young LLP in 2001 to head their Performance and Reward Team. In 2005 she became an Associate of Watson Wyatt Limited focusing on human resources strategy; performance measurement and management; and executive reward. She currently combines her consultancy with a number of other roles including Visiting Professor at the University of Middlesex Business School and Chair of the Resources Committee of the RNLI. Her Presidency of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development runs from October 2006 to October 2010.
Vicky has a BSc. from the University of Durham; an MSc. (with Distinction) from the London Business School; and an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University. She is a Chartered Companion of the CIPD. She is a past President of the UK Management Consultants Association.
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Location: Chicago GSB Europe Campus Basinghall Street LONDON, EC2V 5HA
Date and Time: Wednesday 4th June 2008 12:00 PM
Feedback
Vicky delivered an engaging and very pertinent and timely reminder that HR is only as good as the line managers delivering it on our behalf. An excellent way to round off the season.
Submitted by Guy Pink, Addaction
This made me reflect on what further training and development our line managers could benefit from and how to engage them more. I should have preferred a more interactive event - it would have been useful to know what others in the room were doing in relation to working with their own line managers.
Submitted by Judi Kennedy-Clarke, Wellcome Trust
An excellent event. Provocative,state of the art and with an agenda for personal development. Just what I wanted!
Submitted by Rod Eames, Eames HR Ltd
A thoroughly enjoyable and informative presentation. I found Vicky to be an interesting and engaging speaker who left me with some serious food for thought. many thanks
Submitted by Stephen Halstead, Digby Morgan
I thought it was very thought provoking particulary in relation to how HR works with managers
Submitted by Kate Mclachlan, NICE
Really informative and interesting. Thanks.
Submitted by Janet O\'Hehir, Banksia Projects Ltd
I found this event very interesting with lots to take away both for HR practitioners within organisations and consultants.
Submitted by Victoria McFarland, Human Assets Limited