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Promoting Human Resources in the Public Sector: CRITICAL ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN AFRICA. Regional Workshop Organized by CAFRAD 21-25 June 2010 -Tangier –Morocco. Addressing the Concerns of Human Resources Management in Africa.
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Promoting Human Resources in the Public Sector: CRITICAL ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN AFRICA Regional Workshop Organized by CAFRAD 21-25 June 2010 -Tangier –Morocco
Addressing the Concerns of Human Resources Management in Africa Amb (Dr) Mohammad Ahmad Wali June 2010
Managing Employees • Provides leadership • Coordinates the management of employees • Homogeneity & Heterogeneity • Conflict resolution • Internal issues
Managing Employees • Departmental responsibilities • External matters
Managing Employees • The importance of the subject is underlined by the eighth World Congress on HR 2000, held in Paris, where a major theme was the changing focus of HR from operational matters to strategic considerations.
Retirement Human resource PRACTICES Processes of entry into, advancement within and exit from the organization:
HR Practices • External factors on HR practices • New mandate: strategic planning
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa • HR strategy is supported by information technology in the form of human resource information systems and workforce management systems • Success will come from organizational capabilities such as speed, responsiveness, agility, learning capacity, and employee competence.
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa • Ideas and Innovation
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa • Human resources is the ultimate competitive factor. • It is a highly complex factor. And a factor that needs to be continually monitored, nurtured, renewed, and developed in order to result in desired organizational performance. • HR department would need to assume a central role in helping organization fulfil its highest-level strategic and economic objectives. • Successful organizations will be those that are able to quickly turn strategy into action, to manage processes intelligently and efficiently, to maximize employee contribution and commitment; and to create the conditions for seamless change.
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa Human resource managers and executives can:
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa Human resource managers and executives can:
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa Human resource managers and executives can:
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa Human resource managers and executives can:
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa Human resource managers and executives can:
Addressing the Concerns of HRM in Africa • Tangier Declaration 1994: Investment in human resources constituted an essential basis for the development of Nations and a principal factor for achieving progress and welfare. • Education • Health
References • Bhattacharya, Mohit 2002. Public Adminstration. World Press:Kolkata • Bruss, Sonja 2000. Tendencies towards the Strategic Role of the Human Resource Management Function: Four Seasons as a Control Sample • Debrah, Yaw A. 2004. Human resource management in Ghana, in Budhwar, Pawan S. & Debrah, Yaw A. (Ed) 2004.Human Resource Management in Developing Countrie. Routledge • Dery, Kristine Frances 2003. How Do Organizations Align Human Resources Management with Information Technology? An Exploration Study of Four Australian Firms. Department of Management, University of Melbourne • Tessema, MussieTeclemichael and Soeters, Joseph L. 2006. Challenges and prospects of HRM in developing countries: testing the HRM–performance link in the Eritrean civil service. Int. J. of Human Resource Management 17:1 January 2006 86–105
References • Budhwar, Pawan S. & Debrah, Yaw A. Edited 2004.Human Resource Management in Developing Countrie. Routledge • Ulrich, D. (1997), “Judge me more by my future than by my past”, Human Resource • Arthur, Jr., Winfred; Woehr, David /; Akande Adebowale; and Strong, Mark H. 1995. Human resource management in West Africa: practices and perceptions, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 6:2 May 1995
Questions for consideration • Pattern of recruitment in African countries • Promotion, posting and transfer criteria • Measuring performance • Salary classification • Nature of incentives • Condition for disciplinary measures • Process of disengagement from service • How, when and to what extent do HR practices affect HRM outcomes (HR competence, motivation, role clarity and retention)? • How do HRM outcomes in turn affect employee performance in the context of African civil service?