Transcript HR as a strategic driver by Nazeema Mohamed, Wits

Positioning HR as a Strategic Driver
for HEI Workplace Programme
By
Dr Ashraf Mohammed: HOD HIV/AIDS Unit, CPUT
Ms. Nazeema Mohamed: Transformation Director, Wits
University
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Structure of Presentation
• An overview of workplace programmes in higher education
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Higher Education
Programmes
• Social Justice Policies and the role of HR
• Recommendations
An overview of workplace
programmes
• Seroprevalence Results: an overview;
• The peculiar nature of higher education – the challenges in
implementing a human rights agenda;
• The challenges in attending to HIV and AIDS as a workplace
concern – governance and issues of class and race in terms
of staffing profiles;
• The statusquo at national and institutional levels;
• Legislation and compliance – failing to comply and commit
or trying to comply and commit – where are we?
Strengths and Weaknesses of HE
Programmes in relation to:
• Strategic leadership, decision-making and coordination;
• Research and Analysis;
• Workplace HIV and AIDS Policy;
• Workplace HIV and AIDS Prevention Programmes;
• Workplace Treatment and Care Statagies;
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Resources
Human Resource Departments
• Governance and Management
• HIV and AIDS – whose responsibility - Student Affairs, Human Resources Departments or Transformation Offices –
ownership challenges
- What are the lessons around governance? What arrangements currently
work and why?
- Where do silos exist, how do we break out of these and build the
appropriate partnerships and relationships?
• Are institutional governance concerns that are reflected in
the workplace report mirrored at a national level?
• What are the risk factors economically and socially?
• What role should HEIs play in the public health agenda?
Conclusions
• HEAIDS to work collaboratively with the HESA HR Directors
Forum and HESA Transformation Director’s Forum to
highlight the areas of concern reflected in the HEAIDS
Research and at SAHARA;
• HEAIDS, HR Directors’ Forum and Transformation Directors’
Forum to draft recommendations to the HESA Board on a
way forward;
• HEAIDS on the mandate of HESA Board works with DHET
and HEQC on a memorandum of understanding on how
HEIs will support the objectives of the NHP