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1. THE MEASUREMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS IMPACT AND
VALUE OF SELECTED AFRICAN HRM AND L&D PRACTICES: A SURVEY-BASED
STUDY ACROSS TWELVE (12) HRM/L&D VALUE CHAIN FUNCTIONS IN NINE (9)
AFRICAN COUNTRIES
CHARLES COTTER PhD, MBA, B.A (Hons), B.A
www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter
APOLLO CONFERENCING HOTEL, RANDBURG
3 APRIL 2019MIKONO SPEAKERS
2. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
• Despite the strategic business imperative and mounting pressure on
Human Resources Management (HRM) to transform its operating
model to actualize to a Strategic Performance Advisor (SPA), the
tangible results and impact, as reflected on the HRM performance
scorecard, have been unimpressive and unconvincing.
• This assertion is supported through authoritative and empirical
research conducted in South Africa and globally (CIPD, 2014; Cotter,
2017; Deloitte, 2018; KPMG, 2015; LinkedIn Learning Solutions, 2017;
McKinsey, 2014; Overton & Dixon, 2016; PWC, 2017).
3. DEFINING STRATEGIC
HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT (SHRM)
• SHRM is defined as an approach to managing
people that deals with how the organization’s
goals will be achieved through its human
resources by means of integrated HR
strategies, policies and practices (Armstrong,
2016).
• SHRM propositions:
❑ The HR of an organization play a
strategic role in it’s success
❑ Human capital is a major source of
competitive advantage
❑ It is people who implement business
strategy
❑ A systematic approach should be
adopted to planning and implementing
HR strategies
❑ HR strategies and plans should be
integrated with business strategies and
plans
5. STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE ADVISOR MODEL
(COTTER, 2019)
• HRM Strategy (e.g. embedding HR strategy into business strategy; the use of strategy
maps; adopting a strategic mindset and applying strategic management principles and
processes);
• HRM Governance (e.g. HR policies and procedures; HR/people risk management,
compliance with ethics and King IV corporate governance principles; Human Capital
reporting; promoting workplace democracy and HR Auditing);
• Business Intelligence (e.g. competitive predictive HR metrics and analytics; future-
proofing the business model; applying evidence-based HRM; creating HIPO; knowledge
management and trouble-shooting solutions architects) and
• Workplace Advocacy (e.g. Employee engagement; employee voice; employee
retention; succession planning; creating a workplace culture of ambassadors;
diversity/inclusivity; mainstreaming HRM and creating future-fit employees)
6. 6 HIGH PRIORITY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
(COTTER, 2018)
• #1: Attract, acquire and select top talent - promote a competent and competitive workforce i.e. quality of hire;
• Role: Cognitive and Intelligent Talent Broker
• #2: Transform to a digitally-enabled HRM operating model and design an automated Knowledge Management System;
• Role: Strategic Performance Advisor (SPA)
• #3: Future-proof the organization, by developing a measurement culture and generating real-time predictive business analytics and –intelligence;
• Role: Digital Futurist and –Analyst
• #4: Develop an agile High Performance Organization (HIPO) culture and employee engagement;
• Role: Behavioural Economist
• #5: Mainstream HRM into core business processes, by offering business valued solutions to key organizational problems
• Role: Innovative solutions architect
• #6: Develop a HRM Governance framework, processes, principles and promote an ethical organizational culture, espousing and enacting core
company values.
• Role: Advocate, Custodian and Steward of governance and ethics
8. MEASURING THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS IMPACT AND
VALUE OF HRM/L&D
• Over the past 20 months, I’ve developed Survey Monkey quizzes, based on compliance of current x12
HRM/L&D practices, measured against approx. 10 best practice criteria (a total of x138 strategic HRM
sub-factors), that I’ve used on various training and conference speaking assignments in South Africa,
Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Lesotho, Tanzania and Namibia.
• N = 1 332. Of these, the vast majority of respondents (approx. 99%) from these nine (9) countries were
HR/L&D managers and -professionals, representative of both public and private sector institutions.
• The twelve (12) selected focal points, informed by competency profiles, skills requirements and training
needs analyses of modern HRM/L&D Professionals of this survey-based study, include the following
HRM/L&D value chain processes:
❑#1: Strategic Performance Advisor (SPA)
❑#2: Strategic HRM Planning
❑#3: HRM Metrics and Analytics
❑#4: Strategic Total Rewards Management (STORM)
❑#5: Skills Auditing
❑6: Strategic Learning Partner (SLP)
9. MEASURING THE STRATEGIC IMPACT AND VALUE OF
HRM/L&D
• The 12 focal points of this survey includes the following selected HRM/L&D value chain processes:
❑##7: Ethics of Africa-based trainers
❑#8: HRM Auditing
❑#9: Future fitness of HRM/L&D Professionals
❑#10: Succession Planning
• #11: Job Analysis and -Profiling
• #12: Performance Management Systems
• Refer to the following links (for provisional/earlier research findings):
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reality-check-chief-human-resources-officers-africa-hrm-cotter-phd/
• https://www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter/measurement-of-the-strategic-maturity-of-hrm-and-ld-
practices-africa
10. CHANGE MESSAGE TO HR MANAGERS
(Cotter, 2018)
“One of the mission-critical strategic HRM objectives is
to mainstream HRM into the core business processes.
HRM should be embedded in the business strategy and
their value proposition should be ingrained in the
organizational culture fabric. Key business decisions
should not be taken in the absence of consulting with
HRM.”
11. OVERALL FINDINGS – VALUE CHAIN FUNCTIONS 1-6
HRM/L&D Value chain process Number of respondents
(N)
Mean Score Relative Difficulty
ranking
Standard deviation Level of Strategic Maturity
#1: Strategic Performance
Advisor (SPA)
210 57% 4 17% Level 2 (Transactional)
#2: Strategic HRM Planning 110 61% 7 12% Level 2 (Transactional)
#3: HRM Metrics and Analytics 154 52% 1 13% Level 2 (Transactional)
#4: Strategic Total Rewards
Management (STORM) –
Principles and Best Practices
113 55% 2 16% Level 2 (Transactional)
#5: Skills Auditing 105 59% 6 13% Level 2 (Transactional)
#6: Strategic Learning
Partner (SLP)
110 66% 10 14% Level 3 (Transformational)
14. OVERALL FINDINGS
• Only x3 of the total scope of the study of x12 HRM value chain functions exceed the
mean score threshold of 65% (level 3 of strategic maturity - transformational HRM),
namely:
• Succession Planning (73% - N = 95);
• Future Fitness of HRM/L&D Pro's (67% - N = 167) and
• Strategic Learning Partner (66% - N = 110).
• The average of these x12 HRM value chain functions is 61% (level 2 of strategic maturity -
transactional).
“Seemingly, current HRM practices are administrative, compliance-driven and
transactional and not strategic, commitment-driven and transformational.”
(Cotter, 2018)
15. STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE ADVISOR
•“To be a future-fit, Strategic Performance Advisor, who
practices evidence-based Human Resources Management
(HRM) and who optimally leverages business intelligence for
strategic business impact, effectively harnessing Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is an imperative for African HR managers and
- professionals.”
(Charles Cotter PhD, 17 March 2019)
17. STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE ADVISOR (SPA) – WIDEST
COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
11-100% 54% 57% 17%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q2: Your organization's HRM function has well-defined, implemented and
reported HRM performance scorecards and ROI metrics (creating credibility
and accountability)
1 50%
Q3: Your organization's HRM function generates business intelligence e.g.
predictive and strategic analytics (that shapes, informs, guides and ultimately,
influences strategic business decisions)
2 50%
Q10: Your organization's HRM function is technology-savvy innovator,
enabling and leveraging best practices (e.g. CoE; Shared Services and e-HRM)
3 53%
18. STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE ADVISOR (SPA) – MOST
COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q4: Your organization's HRM function offers a
professional, value-adding business proposition
sensitive to and supportive of business needs,
interests and strategic priorities
10 65%
20. STRATEGIC HRM PLANNING – WIDEST COMPLIANCE
GAPS
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q10: Your organization's HR plan yields a positive ROI, with
tangible/demonstrable outcomes and impact i.e. creates sustainable HCM
competitive advantages
1 58%
Q8: Your organization's HR plan integrates both scientific (HRM metrics,
predictive analytics and strategy maps) with artistic (planning) principles.
2 59%
Q4: Your organization's HR Plan provides accurate and reliable (clear view) talent
planning/management information e.g. available core competencies; scarce
skills; critical jobs and employee segments and talent gaps.
3 59%
21. STRATEGIC HRM PLANNING – MOST COMPLIANT
CRITERIA
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
27-93% 59% 61% 12%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q1: Your HR Plan is aligned with the organization’s
strategic business plans and priorities.
10 67%
22. THE FUTURE OF HRM METRICS & ANALYTICS?
“HRM will have to migrate from the
fundamentals of people science to the
complexities of data science.”
(Cotter, 2017)
24. HRM METRICS AND ANALYTICS – WIDEST COMPLIANCE
GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
22-100% 53% 52% 13%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q6: Your organization has re-injected scientific principles, processes and
tools and credibility into HRM Metrics e.g. 3 E’s - evidentiary, empirical
and ethical.
1 46%
Q10: Your organization harnesses automation, utilizing a 4-G HRM digital
data analysis solution.
2 50%
Q3: Your organization has streamlined and systematic HRM metrics
processes
3 52%
25. HRM METRICS AND ANALYTICS – MOST COMPLIANT
CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q9: Your organization starts small, thinks big and
systemically scales up over time, as opposed to
adopting a large-scale “Big Bang” HRM Metrics
approach.
10 58%
27. STRATEGIC TOTAL REWARDS MANAGEMENT
(STORM PRINCIPLES) – WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
11-92% 54% 52% 15%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q4: Your organization's reward management practices are
future-focused (ensuring that the organization is future-proof).
1 43%
Q3:Your organization's rewards management practices conduct
environmental scanning and are highly attuned, sensitive to and
proactively responsive to change.
2 47%
Q6: Your organization's reward management practices generate
business intelligence, enabling smarter business decision making
(operationally and strategically).
3 51%
28. STORM PRINCIPLES – MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q5: Your organization's reward
management practices adopt a
measurement culture e.g. scorecards,
dashboards, metrics, risk analysis and
audits etc.
8 59%
30. STORM PRACTICES – MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
11-100% 60% 58% 17%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA DIFFICULTY RANKING MEAN SCORE
Q9: The value of remuneration and rewards offered by your
organization is affordable (feasible) promoting business
sustainability and continuity.
10 64%
31. STORM PRACTICES – WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q5: Your organization promotes transparency through sharing information
about their compensation practices, pay rates criteria and how they are
determined – especially at the managerial and executive levels.
1 52%
Q8: Your organization has an efficient, user-friendly and stream-lined job
evaluation and job grading process.
2 54%
Q2: Your organization adequately and accurately recognizes the knowledge,
skills, competencies and experience of employees and rewards are
sufficiently flexible and variable.
3 56%
33. SKILLS AUDITING - WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
22-100% 57% 59% 13%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q3: Your organization trains skills auditors and -raters to use the
skills rating instrument properly.
1 51%
Q4: Formal appeal mechanisms are in place in your organization
and skills assessment results are regularly moderated and
reviewed.
2 51%
Q9: The outcome of the skills audit generates predictive analytics 3 54%
34. SKILLS AUDITING - MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q7: Your organization's skills auditing process
complies with the 7 E’s i.e. efficient, effective,
economical, educational, ethical, empirical and
evidentiary.
10 77%
35. “As Learning and Development professionals, let's
liberate – not monopolize - the learning like true
revolutionaries."
(Charles Cotter, 7 June 2017)
37. SLP – WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
40-100% 64% 66% 14%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q5: L&D have established a high impact learning organizational
(HILO) culture and developed a Knowledge Management System
1 59%
Q9: Learning and Development proactively anticipates and prepares
employees to be future-fit and the organization to be future-proof
2 63%
Q3: There is direct and active engagement, consultation and
participation of line management in all learning processes
3 64%
38. SLP – MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q7: When utilizing outsourced
training providers, L&D ensures
performance-directed, Service Level
Agreements are in place
10 73%
40. ETHICS OF AFRICA-BASED TRAINERS – MOST
COMPLIANT CRITERIA
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
35-100% 57% 58% 11%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q12: African trainers' conduct is morally corrupt. 20 64%
Q18: African trainers demonstrate a sense of duty and commitment to
faithfully serve the training profession.
19 63%
Q10: African trainers' actions do not comply with professional
standards.
18 62%
41. ETHICS OF AFRICA-BASED TRAINERS – WIDEST
COMPLIANCE GAPS
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q20: South African trainers sometimes violate copyright and intellectual
property rules and are guilty of plagiarism.
1 48%
Q4: South African trainers sometimes discredit the training profession by
associating with unscrupulous business owners.
2 49%
Q13: South African trainers' actions comply with regulatory standards and
training legislation.
3 52%
Q2: South African trainers are sometimes guilty of misconduct. 4 52%
Q6: South African trainers sometimes violate the organizational code of conduct. 5 53%
42. CHANGE
MESSAGE
TO HR
MANAGERS
(Cotter,
2018)
"HR Managers & -Professionals will have to transform to
Behavioural Economists who trade in competitive
predictive analytics and business intelligence and who
have an in-depth and rich understanding of the mechanics
(structures, processes, systems & operations) and
dynamics (culture, values, emotions & attitudes) and how
these influence key business decision-making"
44. HRM AUDITING – WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q3: The scope of and the HRM Audit measures are adequate and
comprehensive i.e. the 70-20-10 principle is consistently applied.
1 55%
Q8: All stakeholders have agreed on the HRM Audit reporting template and
there is general buy-in and support from the key stakeholders, especially senior
management and the labour unions.
2 59%
Q6: All HRM Auditors are properly trained and competent in performing their
auditing role and the appropriate and relevant use of HRM Auditing tools.
3 59%
45. HRM AUDITING – MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
22-100% 60% 62% 17%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q1: The HRM Audit is objective and independent from
other HRM governance processes.
10 67%
47. A-B-C (ALWAYS BE CREATING) REQUIREMENT OF
FUTURE FIT HRM/L&D CONSULTANTS
"For a kindergarten teacher, ABC are the building blocks of the alphabet; for a
corporate communications specialist, ABC is their message gospel defined by
accuracy, brevity and clarity and for a sales consultant, ABC is their motivational
mantra, Always be Closing. However, for a future-fit, independent training
contractor, ABC is their business philosophy, Always be Creating. They have to
unlock their creative genius by constantly creating meaningful learning content;
by creating mutually beneficial business relationships; by creating future-proof
sources of differentiation and competitive edge; by creating innovative and
immersive learning experiences; by creating a vibrant stream of collaboration
opportunities and by creating significant learning impact and optimal learning
solutions."
(Charles Cotter PhD, 9 January 2019)
48. FUTURE FITNESS OF HRM/L&D PROF’s – WIDEST
COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
42-100 64% 67% 13%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q2: My professional HRM/L&D status and -brand equity is typified by a
high degree of differentiation, therefore I'm compensated at a premium
rate (top dollar).
1 56%
Q9: I'm a responsible and responsive digital citizen, who has mastered
the ability to navigate, curate, analyze and communicate HRM/L&D
messages via digital media sources across an array of sophisticated
technological platforms.
2 61%
Q10: I'm a hyperconnected collaborator, with the analytical ability to 3 63%
49. FUTURE FITNESS OF HRM/L&D PROF’s – MOST
COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q5: I constantly demonstrate a high degree of
resilience, flexibility and stealth-like agility, especially
during turbulent times of change in the workplace.
10 73%
51. SUCCESSION PLANNING – WIDEST COMPLIANCE GAPS
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q9: Succession planning frequently scans the micro, market and macro
business environments, is consistently reviewed and is agile in it’s
response.
1 67%
Q6: The talent pipeline is vibrant in creating an adequate succession
planning rate/ratio e.g. 1:3 and talent bench strength of high
potentials/performance.
2 67%
Q8: The succession planning process is proactive, adopts a medium to
long-term view e.g. 3-5 years and uses scenario planning/"what if"
3 68%
52. SUCCESSION PLANNING – MOST COMPLIANT CRITERIA
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
22-100% 76% 73% 18%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q1: Succession planning is a strategic driver of
sustainable organizational development and
competitive advantage.
10 79%
54. JOB ANALYSIS AND –PROFILING – WIDEST COMPLIANCE
GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
29-93% 53% 55% 15%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q3: Your organization's Role/Job Analysis and -Profiling
processes integrate both scientific, quantitative (intelligence - 80%) with
subjective, qualitative (intuition - 20%) configuration of methodology
and valid tools.
1 48%
Q10: Your organization's Role/Job Analysis and -Profiling processes
are dynamic and agile - regularly and systematically monitored,
reviewed, evaluated and adapted (committed to continuous
improvement processes).
2 50%
55. JOB ANALYSIS AND –PROFILING – MOST COMPLIANT
CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q9: Your organization's Role/Job Analysis and -
Profiling processes are a systematic and synergistic
precursor to the Job Evaluation/grading process.
10 63%
57. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS – WIDEST
COMPLIANCE GAPS
Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
22-100% 61% 62% 14%
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q6: The PMS of your organization is user-friendly, simple and
understandable for all users.
1 56%
Q10: The PMS is a continuous process that accurately identifies multi-
level (individual, team & organizational) performance & skills gaps i.e.
generates crowd-sourced (360-degree) performance intelligence & -
analytics, which is effectively leveraged as a performance development
& -improvement management tool.
2 57%
Q8: The PMS of your organization is vigilant and efficient in identifying 3 58%
58. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS – MOST
COMPLIANT CRITERIA
BEST PRACTICE CRITERIA RELATIVE
DIFFICULTY
RANKING
MEAN SCORE
Q7: The PMS of your organization provides an
opportunity to recognize and (financially and non-
financially) reward performance excellence.
10 69%
59. 10 HIGH PRIORITY STRATEGIC HRM/L&D GAPS
• #1: Your organization's reward management practices are future-focused (ensuring that the
organization is future-proof) – 43%
• #2: Your organization has re-injected scientific principles, processes and tools and credibility
into HRM Metrics e.g. 3 E’s - evidentiary, empirical and ethical – 46%
• #3: Your organization's rewards management practices conduct environmental scanning and
are highly attuned, sensitive to and proactively responsive to change – 47%
• #4: African trainers sometimes violate copyright and intellectual property rules and are guilty
of plagiarism – 48%
• #4: Your organization's Role/Job Analysis and -Profiling processes integrate both scientific,
quantitative (intelligence - 80%) with subjective, qualitative (intuition - 20%) configuration of
methodology and valid tools – 48%
60. 10 HIGH PRIORITY STRATEGIC HRM/L&D GAPS
• #6: African trainers sometimes discredit the training profession by associating with unscrupulous
business owners – 49%
• #7: Your organization's Role/Job Analysis and -Profiling processes are dynamic and agile - regularly
and systematically monitored, reviewed, evaluated and adapted (committed to continuous
improvement processes) – 50%
• #7: Your organization harnesses automation, utilizing a 4-G HRM digital data analysis solution – 50%
• #7: Your organization's HRM function has well-defined, implemented and reported HRM performance
scorecards and ROI metrics (creating credibility and accountability) – 50%
• #7: Your organization's HRM function generates business intelligence e.g. predictive and strategic
analytics (that shapes, informs, guides and ultimately, influences strategic business decisions) – 50%
61. IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS
• It is recommended that HRM/L&D professionals either develop a HRM
Checklist of the x42 deficient factors and/or convert into a weighted
HRM Scorecard and utilize as either a HRM Risk Management tool
and/or HRM Performance Evaluation and Auditing tool, respectively.
62. TRANSFORMING TO A STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE
ADVISOR
• According to Cotter (2014), business executives expect SPA’s to fulfil the following
key roles:
• #1: Catalytic Driver of Change;
• #2: Pro-active Business Thinker;
• #3: Collaborative Consultant;
• #4: Purpose-directed Coach;
• #5: Delivery (results-oriented HR practices);
• #6: Strategic Facilitator and
• #7: (Credible and Accountable) Performance Advisor
63. CHANGE MESSAGE TO HR MANAGERS
(Cotter, 2018)
"HRM must be instrumental in and at the forefront of
the I-Q-C-A-P drivers of business performance, namely:
Innovation; Quality; Compliance; Agility and Processes
(to optimize productivity), in their quest to transform
and actualize to become strategic performance
advisors."
64.
65. TRANSFORMING TO A STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE
ADVISOR
• Cotter (2017) suggests the following transitional improvement strategies to actualize to
a SPA:
• Transition from transactional to transformational HRM;
• Transition from a cost to a profit centre;
• Migration from fundamentals of people science to the complexities of data science;
• Acquisition of more advanced, business relevant skills by HR Professionals;
• Migration from manual to automated/digital HRM – 1G to 4G technology and
• Transition from administrative expert to strategic performance advisor.
• “Stop thinking HR for HR and start practising HR for business.”
(Charles Cotter PhD, 2018)
66. CHANGE MESSAGE TO HR
MANAGERS
(Cotter, 2018)
• “Stop fixating on best practice
and rather concentrate on
conceptualizing next practice.
This is the fundamental
differentiation between industry
followership and leadership.”
67.
68. THE FUTURE OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
(COTTER, 2018)
• #1: Transition from e-learning to mobile (m)-learning
• #2: More video-based, on-demand micro-learning
• #3: Learners taking more ownership and responsibility for their learning
• #4: More use of Virtual Reality in the traditional learning space
• #5: Technology-enabled and digital learning devices
• #6: Transition from training facilitators to Learning Navigators
• #7: Less focus on learning content and more focus on the learner experience
• #8: Less focus on learner assessment and qualifications and more focus on holistic application
and transfer of learning
• #9: Less formal training and more focus on social and experiential learning (refer to the 70-20-
10 model of learning)
• #10: Transition from books to MOOC’s
• #11: Use of a Strategic L&D Scorecard and
• Adoption and implementation of the Strategic L&D Conceptual Framework (Cotter, 2017).
69.
70. IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS – STRATEGIC
LEARNING PARTNER (SLP)
• CURATE - from providing training programmes to providing business valued learning
solutions;
• CREATE – an enabling high impact learning organization (HILO) culture and improved learner
experience (Lx);
• NAVIGATE - from being people pleasers and comfort-seekers to making employees
competitive and competent;
• MIGRATE - from traditional, manual methods to technology-enabled learning;
• EDUCATE - transform from training departments to learning factories (repositories of
knowledge) and
• GRADUATE - from being transactional (administrative) to being transformational (strategic)
i.e. from training administrators to being strategic learning partners.
71. 10-STEP CHANGE PROCESS CYCLE
• Step 1: Conduct a gap analysis (by means of the Weighted, 74 item Strategic L&D
scorecard);
• Step 2: Formulate and implement change management and improvement
interventions;
• Step 3: Ensure the horizontal integration (bundling) across the L&D value chain;
• Step 4: Formulate 3-year L&D strategy and facilitate vertical alignment of this L&D
strategy with the organisational business strategy (KPI #1);
• Step 5: Foundational work – invest heavily in the input factors (refer to KPI #6 and
#7);
72. 10-STEP CHANGE PROCESS CYCLE
• Step 6: Initiation work – roll out the transformation process (refer to KPI #3, 5, 8 and
10);
• Step 7: Periodically monitor, track, measure and report on strategic L&D metrics (refer
to KPI #2);
• Step 8: Conduct an annual audit to evaluate the strategic impact of L&D, with KPI #4
and #7 as the yardstick;
• Step 9: Generate business and performance management intelligence and
• Step 10: Feed this business intelligence back into the system, make the necessary
revisions and re-initiate new 3-year L&D cycle/process.
73. EVIDENCE-BASED HRM
• Evidence-based HR refers to a process in which the organization evaluates any
decision or process against data, real experience, expert opinions, and/or other
types of information to ensure the decision is likely to have the desired
outcome.
• For this to work best, the “evidence” used should be purposefully sought out.
• When data is taken from multiple sources, ensure it’s applicable within your
context.
74. 7-POINT HRM TRANSFORMATION
(COTTER PhD, 11 JANUARY 2019)
• "In order to be feasible, to prosper professionally in 2019 and to be future-fit, HRM
will have to exchange the currency in which they trade from old notes to noteworthy,
Industry 4.0 and business relevant denominations and value. Specifically, this change
translates from:
• 1. feelings to facts;
• from 2. anecdotal to analytical;
• from 3. hindsight to foresight;
• from a 4. business tributary to mainstream;
• from 5. intuition to intelligence;
• from 6. best practice (imitation) to next practice (innovation) and ultimately,
• from 7. a cost to a profit centre.
• Generally, this 7-point transformation means an upgrade to Evidence-based HRM."
82. HRM PERFORMANCE REPORTING – LEVEL 6
(IMPACT)
• In terms of HRM Performance Reporting, the collective outcome of this survey-
based business intelligence, should be pitched/pegged at level 6 (Impact) of the
Knowledge Hierarchy.
83. LIST OF SOURCES
• Armstrong, M. (2016). Armstrong’s Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management. 6th edition. Kogan Page: London.
• Cotter, C.A; Gerber, P.D. & Schutte, N. (2018). Proceedings of AC 2018 in Prague, pg. 142-149, Academic Conferences Association, Czech Technical University, ISBN
978-80-88085-20-1. Refer to file:///C:/Users/charl/Downloads/ProceedingsofAC2018inPrague.pdf
• Cotter, C.A (2017). Transforming learning and development into a strategic, value-adding business solution: A conceptual and business-minded framework. PhD
thesis. NWU.
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84. LIST OF SOURCES
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• Acknowledgement and credit for images: Brighton Abaasa; https://exceldashboardschool.com/human-resources-kpi-scorecard/ ;
https://www.gapingvoid.com/ and Mikono Speakers
85. CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD
• Seemingly, the diagnosis of the current strategic HRM and L&D practices and their future-fit status doesn't look
promising.
• As a matter of urgency, CHRO’s and CLO’s and -professionals need to seriously address some of the strategic
deficiencies (identified by means of the mini surveys) throughout the respective value chain functions and
implement the recommended improvement strategies to graduate from a transactional (level 2 of maturity) to
strategic performance advisors and strategic learning partners (level 4), respectively.
• Failing this the prognosis of the future-proofing of the HRM/L&D professions appears very bleak.
• “Based on my research, I anticipate that the next 6 years culminating in 2025 will be a profession-defining time
period for Human Resources Management (HRM) practices. In retrospect and reflection, it will either be
regarded as a golden era in which HRM was able to transform to a Strategic Performance Advisor (i.e. yardstick
of excellence) or worst-case scenario, be the age of HRM extinction (i.e. graveyard of mediocrity).
Metaphorically, either Jurassic Park (resting place) or Disney World (podium place).”
(Charles Cotter PhD, 28 February 2019)