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One of the red threads of AHRMIO’s year 2020 has been the growing concern about mental health and wellbeing. Throughout the year, several discussions with members, webinars and sessions during our Leadership Series looked at different aspects of this important issue for many of AHRMIO’s member organisations.

How can HR help to develop sustainable leadership across the organisation?
Some leaders see the SDGs as a compelling alternative growth model.

Ahead of the 2019 AHRMIO annual conference, one of our members, Janine Rivals, Honorary Vice-President of AMFIE, sheds some light on a burning topic: “Pensions”

Marc Esteve and his colleague Christian Schuster studied empirical evidence of motivating employees, what works, what doesn’t work. A literature study about what enhances motivation for public empoyees, led to the following model: The main body of research is around Pro-social motivation, less about Group/organization identification, few about Incentives and Relatedness, some about Enjoyment, but…

In their article for EFMD’s Global Focus Magazine, AHRMIO Board member Edna Diez and Revathi Raghavan (World Bank Group) argue that to work properly performance management needs to shift from being an evaluative tool to one that grows and develops people. To deliver on their organizational objectives, International Organizations need their people to be engaged,…

Roger Parry and Clare Harris, Agenda Consulting (Webinar, 2 May 2019) Organisations that want to ensure a respectful workplace face the challenge of change. Since 2017, attitudes have changed. Following a few high profile cases and the #MeToo movement, people who have suffered are increasingly coming forward. The initial focus on sexual harrassment and assault…

Creating a ‘Winning Culture’ – Robin Lewis & Bieke Van Dessel, CIGNA Robin and Bieke shared their learnings on HR’s role in strategic change. Under ‘creating a winning culture’ Cigna understands building an agile operating model that is close to customers and market, focusing their talent on key business priorities, embedding their ‘Winning Culture’. The…

Many members may not be aware that Mary Jane Peters passed away just before Christmas. Mary Jane had been seriously ill for some years and passed away on the 24th December.

AHRMIO Webinar, 25 October 2018 Traditional performance management (PM) is no longer suited for today’s organizations. With infrequent feedback, the perception of biased and subjective ratings, and its backward-looking approach, the Annual Performance Review is a poor driver of performance and unsuited for today’s work context. Carissa Palmer and Liz Woods, presented McLean & Company’s…

AHRMIO Webinar, 21 June 2018 Nick Shackleton-Jones During his career, Nick met many different types of organizations, public, private, international, … but that had common challenges. They all wanted to modernize learning, but were not sure how to go about it. This very interactive AHRMIO seminar started by immediately applying Nick’s main focus: user-centricity! Participants…