“Knowledge into Practice, Practice into Knowledge”

A One Day Conference on Research and Practice in HRM Friday 15 June 2007

The School of Management, Gateway Building, University of St Andrews

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

0930: Registration, tea/coffee 1000: Welcome, Lecture room 4 Level 1

Mr Martin Dowling and Professor Nic Beech, School of Management Liz Jackson, Vice-Chair CIPD Scottish Partnership

1010: Keynote Address, Lecture room 4 level 1

Mark Butler, Secretary and Registrar, University of St Andrews, Spanning Two Towers: The Interplay of Knowledge and Practice in HRM

1045: Parallel Sessions, Level 1 Time Stream A:

Seminar Room 1 Resourcing and Skills Chair: Alasdair Galloway

Stream B: Seminar Room 2 Performance and Partnership Chair: Mike Donnelly

Stream C: Seminar Room 3 Development and Learning Chair: Moira Bailey

Stream D: Seminar Room 4 Strategy and Change Chair: Craig Littler

1045 Maureen Douglas, Forster Roofing Specialists, Rhetoric vs Reality: Resourcing the Human Challenge in Construction

Tony Axon, Deborah Shepherd and Tom McDonnell, UCU Scotland, Higher Education Pay Bargaining and the Framework Agreement – An Example of Partnership?

Jackie Connon and Carol Walker, The Robert Gordon University, Formal Mentoring: A Tool to Support the Career Development of Women

Liz Jackson, Henderson Loggie, Managing the Migrant Workforce

1115 Mike Danson and Karen Gilmore, University of Paisley, Employing the Unemployable? Evidence from an EQUAL-Funded Project

Alan Murdoch and Graham Tran, Murdoch-Macmillan Associates and Amicus, Participation and Employment Relations in the Offshore Oil Industry

Norah Jones, University of Glamorgan, Blended Learning Solutions for Education and HRD

Sabine Hotho and Martin Dowling, University of Abertay Dundee and University of St Andrews “But how can we become a learning organisation?” Leadership Development and the Role of Change Commissioners

1145 Gill Maxwell, E. Williamson and Dorothy Macfarlane, Glasgow Caledonian University,“Stakeholder Expectations and Experiences of Employability Skills on Postgraduate Programmes

Nic Beech, University of St Andrews, Employee Identity and Change Management

Dorothy Macfarlane and Judith Mackinnon, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Scottish Association for Mental Health, Organisational and Personal Learning from the Development of a Competency Framework: Insights into the Scottish Association for Mental Health

Debbie Donald and Alan Boyter, NHS Tayside, Workforce Development and Governance

1215: Lunch, Atrium Level 1

1300: Keynote Address, Lecture room 4 Level 1 Toni McAlindin, CCIPD, Barrister-at-Law, “Employment Law: What’s New?”

1400: Parallel Sessions, Level 1

Time Stream A: Resourcing and Skills Chair: Karen Gilmore

Stream B: Performance and Partnership Chair: Nic Beech

Stream C: Development and Learning Chair: Norah Jones

Stream D: Strategy and Change Chair: Rosemary Rushmer

1400 Chris Horne, Head Consulting, Managing Diversity: Practical Lessons from a Current Case

Ian Peart and Drew Cassidy, Michelin plc, The Michelin Global Performance Review System

Moira Bailey, Mary Brown and Anne Stevenson, The Robert Gordon University, Towards a Three-Factor Life and Career Development Model of Women’s Networks in Nth East Scotland

Jane Harte, University of Aberdeen, Leadership and Workforce Retention: Some Lessons for Managers

1430 Graeme Martin, University of Glasgow, Employer Branding: time for some long and ‘hard’ reflections?

Charles Lovatt, Cacophony Music, Investing in Creative Capacity

Iain Henderson and Martin Dowling, Heriot-Watt University and University of St Andrews, Managerial Competencies for the HR Professional: A Framework for Analysis

Harry Staines, University of Abertay Dundee, Conducting An Employee Attitude Survey: Getting It Right First Time

1500 Alasdair Galloway, University of Paisley, The Assembly Line: Changing Career is More than Shootie In

Mike Donnelly, Queen Margaret University, Ministers and Managers: making a compact based on mutual expectations

Sabina Siebert and Vince Mills, Glasgow Caledonian University, The Role of the University, the Employer and the Professional Institution in Work Based Learning

Rosemary Rushmer, University of Dundee/ University of St Andrews, Scottish Dimensions of Health Initiative, Quality Improvements in Hospital Care: The Safer Patients Initiative in Tayside

1530: Tea, Atrium Level 1 1545: Parallel Sessions, Level 1

Time Stream A: Resourcing and Skills Chair: Gill Maxwell

Stream B: Performance and Partnership Chair: Iain Henderson

Stream C: Development and Learning Chair: Sabina Siebert

Stream D: Strategy and Change Chair: Harry Staines

1545 Mohamed Branine, University of Abertay Dundee, Graduate Recruitment and Selection in the UK: Evidence of Recent Trends and Development

Danny O’Brien, BAE Systems, Strategic Management Implementation and HRM

Moira Bailey, The Robert Gordon University, Reflective CPD: From Theory to Practice – A Concept Paper

Craig Littler, University of St Andrews, Challenges for HRM over the Next 10 Years

1615 Isabelle Cochrane and Nicki Gautier-Hughes, Tesco plc, Recruitment and Selection Processes in a Call Centre Environment

Ron Skea, Velux Ltd,

Changing the Change

Managers: How

Leaders Interpret and

React to a New Leadership Paradigm

Martin Dowling and Anne Hesketh, University of St Andrews and NHS Education for Scotland, Developing Managerial Competencies Among Health Care Professionals

Sabine Hotho, University of Abertay Dundee, “I don’t think that it is necessarily the fault of the NHS” Understanding, Gaining and Maintaining Commitment in the NHS

1645: Plenary Discussion, Lecture room 4 Level 1

Led by Craig Littler and Ron Skea: (School of Management and Velux Ltd): Lessons and Conclusions

1730: Conference Closes