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Hi Ivan,
Thank for this excellent post - your distinction between HR as an industry and HR as a practice is very useful.
I have always supported the professionalisation of HR practitioners via the SABPP and am disappointed that this has not been more successful. I suggest that we should look at the concept of development of the HR industry in tandem with the professionalisation of the broad field of HR. I have made an attempt to list the various areas I believe fall under HR and within this list all of the categories are provided not only by employees but also external providers - the industry you speak of.
My definition of HR includes:
HR executives including the strategic roles; generalists at management level; specialists at all levels in: transformation and diversity management, IR & ER and labour law and conflict resolution practitioners, HRD training and development including ETDP practitioners, material developers, facilitators, assessors and assessment and design practitioners, moderators, verifiers and the administrative SDFs, payroll and benefits administrators, remuneration specialists, administrators of personnel records, OD and organisational design with job analysis, design and evaluation, recruitment & onboarding specialists, coaches and mentors, and there's a good case to include Occupational Health and Safety practitioners, and EAP and providers of other employee services.
Within this definition the majority of employees I believe are mainstream HR practitioners at all levels employed by the State, and large multi-national and national corporate employers. (With a smaller number of more junior practioners employed by medium to small businesses.) These employees do make use of the "industry practitioners.
Therefore, to develop an industry concept, would require this broad range of practitioners and service providers to band together and recognise each other as fellow providers within an industry. What's in it for us? The chance to access financial support from DTI and the Services Seta.
Many of these sub-sectors I list already do have associations, such as payroll, SDFs, private training service providers, labour law and IR practitioners, IPM . The question is should there be an Indaba of the associations to identify a common industry interest of these independent service providers - as compared to employees in these fields?
Hi Sylvia, unfortunately I have never believed the SABPP has the capacity to understand Industry issues. It represents at-best the practitioners. Taking an "Industry View" requires a Social Partnership which is what SETA's are all about as is NEDLAC. I personally invited the SABPP to participate at Chamber Board level some nine years ago and pursued the issue with them for years until they decided to pursue the issue of becomming an ETQA and drop the Industry issues completely.
What we need is to have an Employer Organisation formed for HR Company owners. That is where the SSETA can help in-terms of the facilitation thereof. Once that is done the engagement cycle begins and in the SSETA that is pretty simple in-terms of our mandate as the issue of engagement becomes that of skilling. Withion our Business Chamber, under Peta Broomberg HR features prominently but quite frankly with the obfuscation of some parties her efforts are regularly countered and therefore her objectives frustrated.
sylvia hammond said:Hi Ivan,
Thank for this excellent post - your distinction between HR as an industry and HR as a practice is very useful.
I have always supported the professionalisation of HR practitioners via the SABPP and am disappointed that this has not been more successful. I suggest that we should look at the concept of development of the HR industry in tandem with the professionalisation of the broad field of HR. I have made an attempt to list the various areas I believe fall under HR and within this list all of the categories are provided not only by employees but also external providers - the industry you speak of.
My definition of HR includes:
HR executives including the strategic roles; generalists at management level; specialists at all levels in: transformation and diversity management, IR & ER and labour law and conflict resolution practitioners, HRD training and development including ETDP practitioners, material developers, facilitators, assessors and assessment and design practitioners, moderators, verifiers and the administrative SDFs, payroll and benefits administrators, remuneration specialists, administrators of personnel records, OD and organisational design with job analysis, design and evaluation, recruitment & onboarding specialists, coaches and mentors, and there's a good case to include Occupational Health and Safety practitioners, and EAP and providers of other employee services.
Within this definition the majority of employees I believe are mainstream HR practitioners at all levels employed by the State, and large multi-national and national corporate employers. (With a smaller number of more junior practioners employed by medium to small businesses.) These employees do make use of the "industry practitioners.
Therefore, to develop an industry concept, would require this broad range of practitioners and service providers to band together and recognise each other as fellow providers within an industry. What's in it for us? The chance to access financial support from DTI and the Services Seta.
Many of these sub-sectors I list already do have associations, such as payroll, SDFs, private training service providers, labour law and IR practitioners, IPM . The question is should there be an Indaba of the associations to identify a common industry interest of these independent service providers - as compared to employees in these fields?
Hi Ivor,
I would be very interested in pursuing the idea of an HR Employer Organisation as I can see a number of advantages and benefits - maybe we can discuss further next week?
Ivor Blumenthal said:Hi Sylvia, unfortunately I have never believed the SABPP has the capacity to understand Industry issues. It represents at-best the practitioners. Taking an "Industry View" requires a Social Partnership which is what SETA's are all about as is NEDLAC. I personally invited the SABPP to participate at Chamber Board level some nine years ago and pursued the issue with them for years until they decided to pursue the issue of becomming an ETQA and drop the Industry issues completely.
What we need is to have an Employer Organisation formed for HR Company owners. That is where the SSETA can help in-terms of the facilitation thereof. Once that is done the engagement cycle begins and in the SSETA that is pretty simple in-terms of our mandate as the issue of engagement becomes that of skilling. Withion our Business Chamber, under Peta Broomberg HR features prominently but quite frankly with the obfuscation of some parties her efforts are regularly countered and therefore her objectives frustrated.
sylvia hammond said:Hi Ivan,
Thank for this excellent post - your distinction between HR as an industry and HR as a practice is very useful.
I have always supported the professionalisation of HR practitioners via the SABPP and am disappointed that this has not been more successful. I suggest that we should look at the concept of development of the HR industry in tandem with the professionalisation of the broad field of HR. I have made an attempt to list the various areas I believe fall under HR and within this list all of the categories are provided not only by employees but also external providers - the industry you speak of.
My definition of HR includes:
HR executives including the strategic roles; generalists at management level; specialists at all levels in: transformation and diversity management, IR & ER and labour law and conflict resolution practitioners, HRD training and development including ETDP practitioners, material developers, facilitators, assessors and assessment and design practitioners, moderators, verifiers and the administrative SDFs, payroll and benefits administrators, remuneration specialists, administrators of personnel records, OD and organisational design with job analysis, design and evaluation, recruitment & onboarding specialists, coaches and mentors, and there's a good case to include Occupational Health and Safety practitioners, and EAP and providers of other employee services.
Within this definition the majority of employees I believe are mainstream HR practitioners at all levels employed by the State, and large multi-national and national corporate employers. (With a smaller number of more junior practioners employed by medium to small businesses.) These employees do make use of the "industry practitioners.
Therefore, to develop an industry concept, would require this broad range of practitioners and service providers to band together and recognise each other as fellow providers within an industry. What's in it for us? The chance to access financial support from DTI and the Services Seta.
Many of these sub-sectors I list already do have associations, such as payroll, SDFs, private training service providers, labour law and IR practitioners, IPM . The question is should there be an Indaba of the associations to identify a common industry interest of these independent service providers - as compared to employees in these fields?
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