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The 3-in-1 ECC business breakfast
UHR Conference 14 May 2014
Oil, HR and the Bacon Butty
Introductions
Nicholas Johnston, Chief Executive
Sandra Walton, Senior Consultant
The future workplace in HE:
How do new technologies impact on workforce
organisation…?
And in particular what’s their influence on the increasing
use of Virtual Team working in Higher Education?
What’s ECC’s interest?
The challenges facing HEI’s
The challenges facing HEI’s (1)Key Drivers
•Globalisation
•Competition and student consumerism
•Demography
•Technology
•Collaboration
Adapted from Prof. Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor, The University of Manchester
The Challenges facing HE in the 21st Century (2013)
The challenges facing HEI’s (2)“international networks ensure graduates are socially engaged global
citizens”
“Through innovative teaching and research, the University provides a
high quality student experience.”
•New technologies and forms of delivery
•Government policy encouraging a diversified sector
•New fee regime and increased scrutiny
•Important of excellence in teaching and research
Adapted from Professor Christina Slade, Vice Chancellor, Bath Spa University
The Role of the University in the 21st Century (2013)
Virtual teams – a solution?
Organisational benefits of Virtual Teams
• can bring together the best individuals regardless of location
• can offer faster, more effective sharing of knowledge and expertise
• can improve the quality of business decision making
• an effective mechanism for handling the increased travel, time, and costs associated with bringing together dispersed employees
• offer development opportunities
What’s missing?
Talent Development & Management
Talent Development & Management
• Bring together the best individuals for the task
regardless of physical location
• Faster more effective sharing of knowledge
and expertise
• Increase capacity, centralisation and
productivity
• Improve quality of business decision making
The areas to focus talent mapping
on
•Workforce planning
•Less qualified or experienced staff can provide
services previously preserve of higher grades
•More varied and different contracts and benefits
to enable flexibility
•Different modes of engaging as an employee
The work required?
• innovation is everyone’s role
• ability to adapt as technology changes
• flexibility
Implications for HR?
• Group exercise
• 25 minutes
Draft replies to Sir James…
Points to digest
Increasing globalisation, collaboration & technology
These bring talent management opportunities
Virtual teams can help – BUT need managing
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