Pay and Workforce Strategy The First Review

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Pay and Workforce Strategy The First Review

• Katie de Bourcier
• Head of Workforce Planning Team
• Ministry of Defence

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MOD Civilian Pay and Workforce Strategy

• The journey so far
• Where we started
• A new vision for civilian people management
• Critical success factors
• Where we are now
• The six month review
• The road ahead
• Plans and challenges

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MOD Context

• Big 90,000 civil servants 200,000 military
• But smaller since the Cold War
• Civil servants down 40, military 33 since 1990
• Complex
• 11 major business units 31 agencies 5 trading
  funds
• Integrated
• Many civil servants in military commands many
  Service personnel in Head Office, etc

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PWS Where we started

• Clear focus on our front line and delivering
  success in operations
• Two different workforces two parallel workforce
  strategies
• New civilian HR strategy agreed by Defence Board
  November 2002
• Under-developed workforce planning capability
• Appetite for change and improvement

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A new vision for people management

• Enabling MOD civilians to make the best possible
  contribution to defence capability through
• Better integration of people management with
  business management
• Improved HR service delivery
• Equipping and enabling line managers
• Raising employee capability and performance

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Critical Success Factors

• Stronger corporate leadership
• Knowing what we need for the future
• Focus on performance
• Streamlined services
• Transforming the role of the line manager

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Where we are now the six month review

• HR transformation programme established
• New performance management arrangements in place
• Key development projects underway
• Improving our workforce data
• Better engagement with the business
• Lyons and Efficiency Reviews

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The road ahead plans and challenges

• Greater engagement in business planning
• Improving workforce planning, at corporate and
  business unit levels
• Better skills planning
• Future reward strategy
• Workforce development initiatives
• Legislative and demographic changes
• The next big date July 2004

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Lessons learnt

• Our workforce strategy has to be
• Business-focused
• Honest
• Practical
• Flexible
• Evolving and developing
• The journey never ends!