NEXT GENERATION HR - CIPD

NEXT GENE
What is Next Practice HR in Asia?
As in any fast-changing environment, Next Practice HR leaders find themselves wrestling with
the challenges of business-building and talent from both a short-term (that is, solving today’s
challenges) and a long-term vantage point.
And as we were seeking ‘Next Generation’ practices, a theme began emerging that
resonated well with the latest thinking in Europe. Next Generation HR leaders in Asia are
insights-led. They use their deep knowledge of the broader context and market, of the
business itself and of the culture and capabilities of the organisation to generate insights
that help the organisation grow.
These insights fall into four areas, and if we take short- and long-term time horizons and the
two core challenges, four ‘corners of next practice’ emerge (Figure 3):
Figure 3: Four corners of growth-based HR
Winning today’s
battles
Performance
Community
Growing
the
business
Insight
Purpose
Winning
the war for
talent in
Asia
Building a future
fit organisation
• insight – ‘leveraging insights thinking’
• community – ‘building the open family’
• purpose – ‘caretaking dreams’
• performance – ‘competition, coaching and capability’.
As this report progresses, it will outline these corners in more detail. The corners represent
centres of great practice that relate to very specific business challenges. They do not, for
example, attempt to redefine the ‘role of HR’. What they do offer, however, is a vision for HR
in Asia that can leapfrog the development of the profession in the West, but leapfrog it by
focusing on specific Asian issues. We hope you find it as provocative as we did.
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