Events

Upcoming Events

The HR specialist: business partner or outsourcing expert?

Date: Wed 24^th April 2013 

Refreshments:  6.00 pm

Event:   6.30 pm

Close:    8.30 pm

This event is jointly organised by Birmingham CIPD and the Aston Centre for Human Resources.

Our Hosts:

ACHR is interested in understanding, identifying, and improving the effectiveness of HR practices to facilitate organizational competitiveness, to encourage individual growth and development, and enhance performance, quality, and work-related attitudes and behaviours.  In this session,  HR experts collaborating with the Centre will outline the latest practice, thinking and research in the area of HR business partnering, as well as its counter-point- HR outsourcing.  Three related themes will be explored:

1.  ‘'The changing shape of HR Business Partnering and Organizational Development in Public Sector'   Mike Gregson:  Senior HR Practitioner, Workforce Intelligence Planning, Birmingham City Council.

2. ‘HR Outsourcing and the changing role of the HR Professional’.  Dr. Alison  Glaister: Lecturer in Strategic Human Resource Management, Bradford University School of Management

3. ‘Global HR Roles and Factors Influencing their Development: Evidence from Emerging Indian IT Services Multinationals’.  Professor Pawan Budhwar, Associate Dean (Research), Aston Business School.

The Venue: Main Building, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET

For further details about ACHR, see our website: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/achr and/ or  contact Dr. Helen Shipton, Director, Aston Centre for Human Resources:  h.shipton@aston.ac.uk. 

Car Parking:

On site car parking:  Aston University (pay and display)

Entrance on Coleshill Street (off Woodcock Street

SEMINAR 3- Theme: Developing leaders for innovation and change. 

TUESDAY 11^TH JUNE, 9.30- 4.30, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY.

Key note speakers: Pawan Budhwar (Leadership and innovation: insights from MSBs in India) & John Bessant, Exeter University (Managing innovation).

Building new leadership and management talents has been defined as a particular challenge for MSBs (CBI, 2011). The purpose of this seminar is to assess what literature and practice suggest to be the defining characteristics of leaders within MSBs.  Amongst the questions to be explored is the role of leaders in fostering ‘developmental readiness’ across the organization, and concrete steps that leaders might take for fostering knowledge creation and dissemination such that day-to-day innovation is part of organizational functioning (Hannah & Lester, 2009). Implications for leadership development will be discussed and we expect debate to centre on best practice examples drawn from high-performing MSBs

Past Events

ESRC Seminar Series: Organisational Innovation, People Management and Sustained Performance - Creating New Knowledge

The second in our series of seminars is on Tuesday 26th February at Lancaster University School of Management. The keynote speakers are Paul Sparrow and John  Burgoyne. More information is provided in the next pages. Please contact esrcseminarseries@aston.ac.uk if you would like more information in participating in this exciting and topical seminar series.

ESRC Seminar Series: Organisational Innovation, People Management and Sustained Performance - Towards a Multi-Level Framework for Medium-Sized Businesses

The seminar series began on 29th October 2012 with the first seminar held at Aston Business School. For Insights into Seminar 1, please follow the link.

'Executive reward- questioning the orthodoxy?’

A jointly presented event between ACHR,the Birmingham branch of the CIPD and Birmingham Centre for Business Ethics, with keynote speakers Paul Williams and Jeremy Tollworthy. Chaired by the Bishop of BIrmingham, Reverend David Urquart.

Wednesday 13th June 2012

Moving Out of Recession: The Implications for HR specialists

Organised by Aston Centre for Human Resources (ACHR) in Collaboration with CIPD Birmingham Branch

• Mrs. Kathy Daniels -  Survivor Syndrome: Managing Employee Relations After Difficult Times
• Dr. Stephen Woods -  The Challenges of Selection and Assessment
• Dr. Jonathan Crawshaw - Career Management in Times of Growth

Sustainable Success in Organizations - The Role of HRM

Organised by Aston Centre for Human Resources (ACHR) in Collaboration with CIPD Birmingham Branch

Venue: MB 234 (Main Buliding), Aston University

Speakers:

• Professor Michael West (Executive Dean of Aston Business School)
• Professor Sam Aryee (Director Research Degrees Programme)
• Dr. Helen Shipton (Senior Lecturer, Work and Organizational Psychology Group)

Sustainable HRM

There will be a presentation by the internationally renowned US scholar Professor Susan Jackson highlighting her ideas about the future direction of the HR profession.
Date: 9 June 2010
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Venue: (TBC)

• Susan Jackson
• Paul Williams
• Mrs Carole Parkes

11th International Human Resource Management Conference

Emergence of New Economic Powers: Management of Human Resources in the Challenging Global Context

Date: 9-12 June 2010
Website: IHRM
Venue: Aston Business School
ABS Contact: Pawan Budhwar