Organisations need to master strategic thinking on capability building: Peter Cheese
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eter Cheese is the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He writes and speaks widely on the development of HR, the future of work, and the key issues of leadership, culture, and organisation, people, and skills. Peter is a Fellow of the CIPD, a Fellow of AHRI (the Australian HR Institute), and the Academy of
Social Sciences. He’s also a Companion of the Institute of Leadership and Management, the Chartered Management Institute, and the British Academy of Management. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Lancaster and sits on the Advisory Board for the University of Bath Management School. Here are the excerpts of the interview.
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By Mastufa Ahmed
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We should train managers across levels in how to manage more diverse teams and ways of working, to maintain connections and to demonstrate empathy, as well as fairness in how people are treated, says Peter Cheese, Chief Executive of CIPD
Workers globally are making it clear that they want more from their employers. In fact, millions of employees are hunting for better opportunities leading to an intensifying war for talent. How do you see this phenomenon? There has been much talk of significant movement of people across jobs, and what some have termed the ‘great resignation’. Several things are happening. The economic impact of lockdowns has affected different sectors in very different ways, some booming and others struggling. That creates differing demands for people and as job protection schemes unwind in those sectors with reduced demand, more are likely to find themselves without a job and seeking new opportunities. There could be some significant shifts of people across sectors, and employers should be looking beyond their own sectors in terms of experience as they seek to recruit. The time of the pandemic has also been a time of a lot of reflection for people, including about their jobs september 2021 |
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