Programme

Sunday 16 October 2016

EVENING

18.00-19.00

Registration

19.00-21.00

Welcome reception

Monday 17 October 2016

MORNING

08.00-09.00

Registration

09.00-09.30

Conference opening ceremony

HE Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory, Vice-President, Republic of Mauritius

09.30-10.30

Keynote address

Challenges for tertiary education institutions: implications for the management of universities, The Hon Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun, Minister of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Mauritius

10.30-11.00

Refreshments

11.00-12.00

Round table discussion

What are the burning issues in HR in HE? What do we share and what is different?

Facilitated by Elizabeth Baré, Senior Fellow, LH Martin Institute for Leadership and Management in Higher Education, Australia

12.00-13.00

Keynote address

Gender and academia in the 21st century: what should HR do? Professor Helen Beebee, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK and Patron of the UK’s Equality Challenge Unit’s Athena SWAN Charter

13.00-14.00

Lunch

AFTERNOON

14.00-15.00

Concurrent sessions

• Transforming and modernising the HR function at the University of Calgary, Marcia Buchholz, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources, University of Calgary, Canada
• Achieving staff engagement: perspectives from an African university, Thompson Moyo, Senior Assistant Registrar, Human Resources (Academic), National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
• Managing teams and strategies for conflict management: critical tools for staff engagement in higher education institutions, Isaac Eliot Nyieku, Assistant Registrar, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
• All work equally well: face to face teams versus virtual teams, Shikha Gera, research scholar, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India

15.00-15.30

HRM Network

Jennifer Ellis, Institutional Research Specialist and HR Advisor, University of Technology, Jamaica, and Tarrance Ryder-Downes, Human Resource Manager, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK

15.30-16.00

Refreshments

16.00-17.00 or 16.00-18.00

Concurrent sessions

16.00-17.00

• Tertiary institutions require active leadership from HR during times of crisis, Amanda Glaeser, Executive Director Human Resources, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
• Excellence, innovation and wellness: a journey to workplace transformation, Dr Marilyn Thompson, Associate Provost, Human Resources, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Leadership at the top? The role of university governing board members, Professor Martin Broad, Head of Southampton Business School, Professorial Fellow, University of Southampton, UK and Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, UK

16.00-18.00

• The role of HR professionals and people managers in embedding gender equality and equity in universities, Professor Maithree Wickramasinghe, Professor of English, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Tuesday 18 October 2016

MORNING

09.00-10.00

Keynote address

What should a vice-chancellor expect from HR management? Reflections of a vice-chancellor in a multi-national university in a developing country, Professor Rajesh Chandra, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of the South Pacific

10.00-10.30

ACU programmes: what HR can contribute

The Revd Keith Stephenson, Director of Resources, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK

10.30-11.00

Refreshments

11.00-12.00

Concurrent sessions

• Transforming HR: ’Business Partner Model‘ as a vehicle to transformation, Chelepe David Mocwana, Senior Officer, Employee Relations Specialist, University of the Free State, South Africa
• Next generation of human resources governance: implications for HR executives in South African universities, Dr Matata Mokoele, Senior Director of Human Resources, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• An investigation of the impact of knowledge management-economy on knowledge technology-hub in challenging and competitive tertiary institutions: my personal experience to the Mauritian case study, Rajendra Gunputh, Associate Professor, University of Mauritius

12.15-13.15

Lunch

AFTERNOON

13.15-14.15

Concurrent sessions

• Stepping out (from the shadows), stepping on (the gas) and stepping up (to the plate): how the People Services team enabled transformational culture change at Glasgow Caledonian University, Alex Killick, Director of People, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
• Performance measurement and management in higher education institutions: a review and considerations for effective management, Professor Martin Broad, Head of Southampton Business School, Professorial Fellow, University of Southampton, UK
• Unveiling the veil: academic staff’s perceptions of human resource risk of a merged higher education institution in South Africa, Tebogo Molotsi, Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa

14.15-15.15

Concurrent sessions

• The importance of applying established website design principles on an online performance management system, Ronnie Brown, Lecturer: Computer Science and Informatics, University of the Free State, South Africa
• Developing the next generation of global researchers: the critical role of HR governance frameworks and leadership in institutional research capacity building, Dr Indi Seerha, Director of Human Resources, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• The creeping history of regulation of academic work: academic workload models and the implications for HR, Elizabeth Baré, Senior Fellow, LH Martin Institute for Leadership and Management in Higher Education, Australia
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  Academic workloads, Mary Tizikara, Director of Human Resources, Makerere University, Uganda

15.15-15.45

Refreshments

15.45-16.45

Concurrent sessions

• An academic perspective on the reality of academic workloads at the University of the Free State and the effect thereof on teaching and research, with specific reference to managing productivity in the light of differentiation and as part of an overall HR, Anita Lombard, Assistant Director and CEO, University of the Free State Personnel Union (UVPERSU), South Africa, Professor Johan Grobbelaar, Senior Professor (Plant Science), University of the Free State, South Africa, and Chelepe David Mocwana, Senior Officer, Employee Relations Specialist, University of the Free State, South Africa
• Research output in the tertiary education sector in Mauritius: academics' perspective of knowledge transfer from university to industry, Ansuya Sobhee, Programme Officer, Tertiary Education Commission, Mauritius, and Indeeren Vencatachellum, Senior Lecturer, University of Mauritius
• HRM reforms and governance of public sector universities in Pakistan, Professor Nasira Jabeen, Dean (Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences) and Director, Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

18.15

Departure from Le Méridien Ile Maurice Resort to Domaine Anna, Flic-en-Flac

19.30-23.30

Gala dinner and cultural show, Domaine Anna, Flic-en-Flac

23.30

Departure to Le Méridien Ile Maurice Resort

Wednesday 19 October 2016

MORNING

09.00-10.00

Keynote address

Human Resources – no need to transform just perform! Dave van Eeden, Executive: People and Organisation, Libstar, South Africa

10.00-11.00

Future of the HRM Network

Jennifer Ellis, Institutional Research Specialist and HR Advisor, University of Technology, Jamaica, and Tarrance Ryder-Downes, Human Resource Manager, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK

11.00-11.20

Refreshments

11.20-12.05

HR in HE: what have we learned?

Elizabeth Baré, Senior Fellow, LH Martin Institute for Leadership and Management in Higher Education, Australia

12.05-12.15

Conference close

12.15-13.00

Lunch

AFTERNOON

13.00-19.00

Island tour