Are you an employer of choice?

Does your organisation provide a work culture where one is able to attract and retain the most talented workforce in town? If you keep on saying ‘our workforce is the most important resource’ – don’t you think you ought to have a method to find out?

Climate surveys and third party reviews would help – but have you seriously audited your HR systems against the ‘greats’ of the country? What if you have much more you can develop on – how are you going to find out? What if other companies have better systems we can learn from? What if we don’t have to reinvent the wheel?

What makes us an employer of choice?

•          The industry and its relevance to HR decision making (business partnering)
•          The synergy between the business strategy and the HR strategy.
•          The alignment between, a job description and recruitment.
•          The training needs analysis and the true development of employees.
•                T he appraisal system and a good person being recognised.
•       T he compensation benefits system and the industry norms.
•    The career progression   and the succession planning are valued within the company.
• Are the employees happy about the employee welfare scheme?  
• Is the company working towards work-life balance.
• CSR projects have mutual benefit to society and the company.

These are but only 10 areas that would make us an employer of choice. Come benchmark yourself with others and learn how and where you need to build on to become/sustain as a great company.

The HRM Awards – Super 10 is clearly synonymous with setting the right tempo for organisations to build on their HR processes.

The HR awards is not only an award but a process. It takes us HR professionals through the rigor of asking the right questions, getting us to re-think strategic alignment and the ROI to the business.

It gets the companies to go through a thorough scan of how each of the HR activities add value to the business and how we have attempted to perfect it time and time again.

The process also entails sessions based on best practices and knowledge sharing.

The cross-fertilisation of knowledge through these sessions help many HR professionals think of novel and cost effective ways of managing people.

Tides of change are moving in; have we braced ourselves?

A new generation of people are about to take over the leadership of the business. We are entering a world where the ‘millennials’ – people born after the year 2000 – are joining the workforce.

They are young, free and are very smart.

They think faster and make decisions even faster. They are known to be people who are less disturbed by the many things we call office stress.

They will work to live and not live to work. If the place of work or the work they do is seen as meaningless, even if the pay is good they may consider moving out.

The ’70s generation on the other side is taking over the top seats of the companies.

They, while being partially traditional and partially modern in their orientation, would find that they are taking over the businesses at a globally competitive era.

The ’70s generation would like to keep the values of the business intact and work hard, while the new generation is looking for excitement and change.

Given that most of the powerful businesses are companies that are family owned business in Sri Lanka, this baton change is happening right now!

Question: What’s HR doing about it? Are the CEOs being coached on people management and novel ways of reorganising how we do business? Do we still hold onto the vertical KPIs and hope all will go well? The laws of engagement and talent are challenging – how competitive are you? Why not benchmark and find out how competitive you are.

Find out how strong or weak you are in a given area, and work at it. It’s not too late to apply for the HR awards. Apply now.

Being the pioneer of the HR awards in Sri Lanka, the Association of HR Professionals of Sri Lanka takes pride in bringing a global approach to the Audit while customising on its approach to suit the nation.

Aon Hewitt the global leader in human resource consulting and outsourcing solutions with 29,000 employees, 330 offices in 90 countries, serving over 80% of the Fortune 500 companies, would spear head the content management element.

They bring to the table consistency and reliability through proven methodology. They are passionate about the awards as they have been a part of the awards for many years.  

We the HR community owe it to our stakeholders. We owe it to ourselves to be recognised for our good work. We owe it to our teams... Be a part of this phenomenal transformation process – be a part of The HRM Awards – Super 10.

Be an organisation of choice in the minds of your employees.  For further details contact The HRM Awards Secretariat, B Connected (Pvt) Ltd., 100, Jawatta Road, Colombo 5.