An update on ISHCM's HCMI course. This week sees the strategic HCM module. So far we've covered a retrospective on human capital management (month 1), enterprise governance including CSR (month 2), and Strategy and Finance (month 3).
Having done the big organisation picture we now zoom in on strategic HCM and the new framework that puts it on a par with marketing and finance. And we've got some really cracking case studies across the spectrum. It's not always easy having fun whilst learning stuff like this but we do........who says sprinting a marathon is difficult?
I have given some insight to this topic on previous blog entries - see for example Summer School week......
The particular Journal article is also linked. Just to remind you there are 34 premises and a base framework that is a distant relative of Porter's famous work. However, this framework is a little more considered than some of the more lightweight pretenders I've come across in the HR space.
At some point this year, The Human Capital Management Manifesto will roll off the presses for the outside world though I am toying with the idea that it will only be available as part of the course programme. Now there's an interesting thought............
As a sign off today, just though that despite our attempts to make the profession more exciting and less humdrum there appears to be a lot of people who prefer humdrum and status quo and keeping the advance of the HR function and human capital management in check.
I say this because in preparation for next month's module on the HR function and HR operational excellence I was reading some market reports and articles from nearly 20 years ago. The sad thing is if you ignored the date you would think they'd be written yesterday! What does that tell us?
So this is a call out there for you quiet lot to sound off. My experience on the ground is that our stuff makes a difference and I hear a different story of ambition than the one that finds itself in print too often.
I would like to know if people are really serious out there about making a difference or are we just picking up that pay cheque with shrugged shoulders (may be not even shrugged shoulders)?
Are we just doing the same old, same old hamster wheel but with increasing speed? (Actually it may be decreasing depending upon your perspective - see Einstein's special relativity for more on that)
As an aside, I am currently keeping a working diary since the day we started as a company for publication at some point (a kind of company/school autobiography) - it's currently entitled 'When an irresistible force meets an immovable object'. I wonder if the title will change over time?
