1. CiCs Departmental Meeting 10 December 2010 All about HRAndrew DodmanDeputy Director of HR

2. Agenda What is HR? How is it organised here? What do I do? What’s happening now and in the near future

3. What is HR?

4. Managing Processes?

5. Hiring?

6. Hiring?

7. Firing?

8. Staff well-being?

9. Staff communications?

10. Challenging the usual HR stereotypes… Pragmatic Solution focussed Inclusive Partnership Expert Sector-leading

11. Employment Life Cycle On-going (T&D, PM, Well-being, equality) Induction & Probation Workforce Planning Recruitment & Selection Complaints/ Concerns End of Employment Promotion& Progression

12. How are we organised Business Development 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

13. Your HR Team Alastair Thirsk Karen Smith

14. 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

15. What do I do? Bit of everything… Operational overview Employee/Industrial Relations Litigation Business Solutions Team

16. E-Recruitment, uBASE, MyJob, MyTeam Workforce Information New developments & process redesign LMS, redeployment, SAP upgrade Digitisation

17. From this…

18. To this… 136,500 sheets of paper saved per year!

20. Priorities… Future sustainability (pensions, change management, reward, policy, staff costs, industrial relations) External context (funding, law, change)