John Moalusi continued from 'Organisational Leadership' to the topic 'Maximising Human Capital'.
By going through the notes of the previous day (the manual that was handed to us) I was really so impressed about the quality of the manual and the effort that went into compiling such a manual, after each set of ppt slides was a more comprehensive summary in theory what the consisted of. The characteristics of a good leader were also summarized with the most important elements and with a vision one can excite people to achieve the impossible! This is also the crux of today’s lecture - people and their role in the organisation. All the people in the organisational departments and units are strategically important - the company will not function and performing functionally if this structure is not in place.
Many aspects of human capital were touched on, the roles of the employers and employees, when the culture in the organisation is right, non-performers will also stand out.
What was of interest to me (and I actually never thought of it in this way) is the levels of law that come into play in an organisation and that a leader should familiarise him/herself with.
1 Constitution - this is the basis of the culture of this country - this is the framework.
2 Labour Relations Act & agreement and determinations controlled by this act - this is where Unions come in.
3 Basic Conditions of Employment Act -conditions under which people must work, training issues etc.
4 Contract of Employment - this need to be reviewed from time to time.
5 Common Law - about people rights.
Recommended: signing a code of conduct / ethics at least once a year (and especially in the supply chain).
We had group assignments - case studies the groups had to look at and report back on.
Performance Management and the key principles of performance management were discussed as well as conflict management, training and skills development. Somewhere in all of this I got completely lost as these topics wondered off into unstructured storytelling by John. At the end of the day this just felt too a long day, being it the second full day with the same person.
24 March 2011
Want to report back in retrospect with lectures we had later in the course, there were very interesting lectures but because of the time constraint were packed and these lectures could have benefitted with some of the time spent on this day that was to my opinion not fully used for the purpose. (e.g. Derick de Jongh and Deon Rossouw's lectures that could have some more time allocated)
