This
week’s Softworld Human Resources & Payroll will focus on web recruitment
through a new feature, the E-Recruit Zone
The
E-Recruit Zone comprises a dedicated area within the exhibition showcasing the
range of offerings for online recruitment. Exhibitors include JobPartners,
PeopleBank, Peopleclick and e-recruitment.com which will demonstrate tech-
nologies for businesses planning to recruit via the Internet.
Product
highlights
Computers
in Personnel will show Windows-based HR software products covering personnel,
recruitment and training administration, absence management, skills matching,
payroll integration, people development and delivery via an intranet. Compel HR
Decisions provides powerful data analysis tools.
Cyberaid
is introducing TeamTrak Adaptiv, an enterprise payroll/HR solution. The
rules-based product is available either as an off-the-shelf HR solution or with
the addition of the customising toolset.
Frontier
Software will demonstrate a range of outsourcing services from a fully managed
service to a traditional bureau service. ASP is also available.
Grampian
Software will show its fully integrated payroll and HR package, OpenPay, which
is used by over 200 sites in the UK. Visitors to the stand will have the opportunity
to view the recently released Personnel and Absence modules.
Intellect
is announcing some key features for its Workforce human resource and personnel
management product range. The latest version of Workforce incorporates enhanced
reporting facilities, together with the ability to apply validation and
calculations to any field in the Workforce database
PWA,
among a raft of announcements will focus on organisational implications of its
e-mployer e-business HR solutions.
Selima
Software will introduce Vision ñ a web extension payroll and HR solution.
Topaz’s
Employee Management System is a fully integrated, flexible payroll and
personnel system. EMS covers all areas of employee management including P11D
production, vehicle management, personnel events diary and document management
and offers an optional integrated Time and Attendance module.
DAY
ONE/7 February
BREAKFAST
BRIEFINGS AND MASTERCLASSES
Keynote
session
Electronic submissions from HR systems
A
case study of work that BASDA has undertaken with the UK Government on the
Government Gateway, Inland Revenue on self- assessment submissions and payroll
PAYE returns over the Internet. Plus an update on stakeholder pensions and the
electronic submission of employee/employer remittance advice information. The
session will take place from 1-2pm, Wednesday and Thursday.
Dennis
Keeling, chief executive, BASDA.
BREAKFAST
BRIEFING
Selecting
and implementing the right HR and payroll system for your organisation
This
will examine the benefits and scope for using technology to manage people
within organisations. It will offer a practical framework for decision-making
when selecting and implementing applications. It will suggest some probing
questions to help ensure an organisation selects, implements and develops
technology to provide maximum return on investment.
Steve
Foster, director KPMG Consulting
Leveraging
self-service applications to provide greater employee empowerment
The
concept of self-service is not new, but are organisations using it to its full
potential? This session looks at how organisations in the UK and the US have
managed to integrate self-service. It will also provide insights into gaining
employee buy-in, managing both cultural and general change as well as
integrating self-service into intranet HR portals.
Jane
Voisey, senior manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Using
electronic document processing to improve staff services and drive down costs
Companies
are adopting the PC as the norm for generation, but not distribution of
documents. HR is at the centre of employee/employer communication. Form
processing, document management and workflow are at the heart of improving both
the effectiveness and service levels in staff relationships. This session describes
the technology and benefits of developing "electronic processing" for
delivering HR services through local and web-based systems.
Martin
Waldron, founder of In-Form Systems
Integrating
HR and payroll: let battle commence!
This
session will address the advantages and the disadvantages of departmental
integration including: data ownership; internal relationships and rivalry;
shared and individual processes and the wider community.
Ian
Lithgow, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Exploiting
intellectual capital for greater knowledge management and competitive advantage
As
one of an organisation’s most valuable assets, collective knowledge can provide
excellent competitive advantage. This session will provide some of the latest
methodologies in capturing and distributing intellectual capital and will also
share some proven strategies for gaining employee buy-in to develop an
efficient, time effective and competitive environment
Speaker
to be confirmed
DAY
TWO/8 February
BREAKFAST
BRIEFING
Selecting
and implementing the right HR and payroll system for your organisation
Details
as above
Work
Force Metrics
Traditional
approaches to reporting are not providing the high quality, responsive
information needed to manage organisations in an "e" world. This will
explain the value of workforce metrics techniques to manage performance and
best practice approaches to management reporting. The use of Key Performance
Indicators, balanced scorecard techniques and performance tools will also
feature.
Steve
Foster, director KPMG Consulting
New
government legislation and the effects on HR and payroll systems
This
masterclass will examine recent changes to payroll legislation, and will focus
in particular on the new taxation regime for company cars, to be introduced in
April 2002. It will also investigate how these changes will impact on payroll
and HR systems.
Adrian
Hobbs, technical editor of Pay magazine
Innovative
ways of utilising self-service to improve employee empowerment
This
session will address how to manage cultural change and employee buy-in with
insight into how Swiss Life has developed and implemented applications to
leverage employee empowerment. Additionally it will discuss proven results on
issues such as providing flexible benefits via the intranet and how to sell the
initial concept internally to both management and employees.
Andrew
Lewis, head of HR Swiss Life
Using
e-learning to educate your workforce
This
will highlight how the real-life experience of deploying e-learning within an
organisation reflects the experiences of the industry. Gained from the results
of the annual survey of e-learning activity in the UK, commissioned by
Training and Xebec McGraw-Hill.
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Garland, regional manager UK for professional learning services Xebec
McGraw-Hill
Softworld
Human Resources and Payroll takes place at ExCel, London, from 7-8 February 2001.
Contact 07000 763 896 or visit www.softworld.co.uk. All pre-registered
delegates attending Softworld will receive a free copy of the Softworld Buyers’
Guide to Human Resources & Payroll (RRP £120)
