HR indaba kicks off today

Professor Dave Ulrich will be held in Harare today at the Celebration Centre.
The one-day event, which is running under the theme: “Your people are your business,” has drawn the interest of many business leaders in Zimbabwe.
The event will comprise of two sessions.
The morning session will focus on approaches to being a leader and building leadership through the leadership code and the leadership brand.
The afternoon session will address issues of transforming the HR function for organisational success. Organisers Industrial Psychology Consultants (Pvt) Ltd managing consultant Mr Memory Nguwi said Professor Ulrich was expected to arrive in the country last evening.
Prof Ulrich is a professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organisations and leaders deliver value.
The Regional Human Resources Summit comes at a time when Zimbabwean organisations have been facing challenges in respect of its human capital base including issues around remuneration, prevailing low production capacity levels, skills flight, limited training budgets and low levels of employee engagement among others.
Prof Ulrich believes that the performance of any organisation’s employees is based on the calibre of leadership in the organisation.
“Leaders who create meaning for themselves and those they lead will shift from going through the motions of leadership to bringing emotion and thereby meaning into their organisation,” he says.
Prof. Ulrich has published over 175 articles and book chapters and 23 books.
He edited the scholarly book Human Resource Management (1990-1999), served on editorial boards of four journals, on the board of directors for Herman Miller, and board of trustees at Southern Virginia University, and is a fellow at the National Academy of Human Resources (United States).
Last year, the same organisers hosted international leadership speaker Dr Stephen Covey at the same venue for a leadership summit that was well received by the country’s business leaders.