Spent half the day at Hyatt for a HR Pinnacle.
**I think Boss' presentation was great, although it was 67 slides long**
Coming from a non-HR background, the talks and panel discussions were quite informative for me.
Albeit the short amount of time, I felt that I learnt quite a bit, especially of the different HR practices in various industries and organisations.
Everyone has constraints in terms of the the program and policies implementations.
The large MNCs have their problems with connecting their staff across the globe and ensuring that whatever benchmarks they have for staff in 1 country is equivalent to those in another.
The public sectors may have more rules and regulations to follow (or red tapes, so to speak), which is inevitable because these regulations allow them to function more systematically.
The SMEs may be less financially loaded to provide as comprehensive a benefits system as the bigger co. and may face problem in talent retention.
There are best practices out there that we can learn, but no one has the perfect HR practice.
I believe the staff will always want more and the organisation will always be finding ways to cut costs.
And no co. can adopt another's HR system wholesale because numerous factors (like staff strength, culture, composition, nature, resources, etc) will come into play.
Made some contacts during the pinnacle as well. Quite interesting because several of them are actually fresh grads like us, and we were sharing with each other abt our work culture and our respective HR practices. You know how networking used to be like a thing for the "adults"? Now I really feel like one :X
As suggested by Julie, we also bought Royce for boss to cheer him up :) and me, Gill and Tholmas went for an early chill session at Toms after that :P
BUSY day at work tmr, looking at the number of things I left unchecked on my To-Do list today :( Gng for a talk tmr morng, lunch club aft dat and interview in the aftnn. ARGH~!
Oh well, at least it's TGIF!!! :P
