Employer Issues Emerge From Recession

Researchers at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) have created a top ten list of priorities for HR professionals, as the UK emerges from recession.

The IES report identifies the following top ten issues for employers following the recession:

1. Workforce planning – ensuring a workforce fit for the future.

2. Ways of working – keeping the organisation agile.

3. The future of learning and development – enhancing capability.

4. Leadership – engaging the ‘teenies’.

5. Refocusing coaching for the upturn.

6. Managing talent in tough times.

7. Performance and reward management beyond the crisis.

8. Managing older employees.

9. The role of organisational development in the post-recession world.

10. Transforming HR for the future.

Duncan Brown, Director of HR Business Development at the IES, commented:

“As we move forward to a new decade, we have been reflecting on key priorities we see for organisations as they start to emerge from recession and look to the future. Although 2009 was one of those years that many of us will be glad to see the back of, it has taught us some salutary, if sobering, lessons about organisational life.

“The potential contribution of people to organisation performance has never been clearer, but the challenges in harnessing that potential and measuring and demonstrating the links have certainly increased in such a tough, cash-constrained climate. The value of those HR and OD professionals that can really contribute to successfully changing their organisations, inputting at the strategic level but also partnering managers at the front-line to put their grand policies into practice and genuinely engage their people, has never been more starkly apparent.”

Source: workplacelaw.net