With the global economy set for a significant reset, cutting costs has become essential to survival for many organisations. Yet, a short-term focus on cash flow and liquidity can hurt performance and long-term competitiveness. While cost consideration is only one aspect in the overall rewards and benefits strategy, how can HR leaders plan and direct a comprehensive company-wide cost-optimisation vision that integrates target setting and reward?

Charise Le, Chief Human Resources Officer - Member of the Executive Committee, Schneider Electric

The four dimensions of a wellbeing initiative involve physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. While most companies nowadays already offer traditional workplace wellness interventions such as disease management health risk assessments, there can be a lot more that modern companies can do to broaden the scope of holistic wellbeing for employees to engage them more, and better. Our speaker will share with us market-leading practices, and the journey their company has gone through and what insights it has to offer.

Elaine Lau, Chief Corporate Solutions Officer, AIA Hong Kong and Macau

The pandemic has brought unprecedented shock to the operation and profitability of corporates. Since the start of the pandemic, what changes have been in place in the executive compensation in both the short-term and long-term? How should HR leaders propose the review of the executive compensation to meet both the expectation of the executive and also the board? In the post-pandemic world, what additional parameters should be considered in measuring the performance of the executive on top of the financial results created?

Interviewer:

Robert Blain, Editor, Human Resources Magazine

Interviewee:

Robert Amos, Head of Executive Compensation, Jardine Matheson

Wellbeing strategies are an intrinsic part of our modern workplace culture. It is becoming even more prevalent after this pandemic crisis. With the rising employee expectations for greater care in holistic wellbeing at work, the benefits of a healthy workforce are manifold. On the other hand, HR leaders are facing business pressures in cost savings. How the employee wellbeing strategies will need to change to effectively address the health care needs of employees in cost containment settings? In uncertain times, creating a strong benefits strategy can help support employees and corporate development now and in the future.

Our panel today will discuss: 

• What are the approaches an organisation can take to control health care costs?
• How to justify the return of investment of workplace wellbeing interventions in the global downturn setting?
• The role of mental wellbeing and resilience in workplace that matters in the business continuity and recovery process.
• What should HR leaders expect to change in the new set of employers’ duties of care and protection in the near future?

Moderator:
John Lee,  Former Executive Director of Human Resources, Regional Head of Benefits and Wellness, J.P. Morgan

Panelists:
Dr. Christian Wards, Director of Group Healthcare, AIA Group
Tommy Fung, SVP, Head of Comp & Benefits Asia, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Leo Chan, Director, Human Resources, Microsoft Hong Kong

In today’s digital economy, transforming your workforce to adapt to the needs to Industry 4.0 becomes critical as organisations deal with the onslaught of technological disruptions. Organisations that are successful in digital transformation are the ones who are able to transform their culture and help their employees align to the organisation’s realigned values and purposes throughout the transformation journey. Culture is a vital component in the facilitation of organisational transformation.

Alignment of strategic rewards and benefits to the new culture that is needed for Industry 4.0 is an important ingredient to success. When we calibrate our benefits strategy to look at the workplace culture, workplace benefits and other incentives that can motivate and incentive new age workers, we have a good chance of success

In this talk, Dr Jaclyn Lee, Book Author of “Accelerating Organisation Culture Change” will share on three to four key ingredients of success needed to transform culture in Industry 4.0. She will share her research work on how companies like Google and Netflix as well as SUTD have been able to champion innovation and breakthroughs in their workplace as a result of good calibration of benefits strategy with organisational culture.

Dr. Jaclyn Lee (Singapore)
Chief Human Resources Officer, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Book Author, Accelerating Organisation Culture Change

Employee relations and communications are among the main factors that influence employee satisfaction and engagement. Higher Employee satisfaction and engagement boost employee productivity and thus, revenues and profits. In the post-pandemic virtual/hybrid workplace setting, being able to sustain trust and implement effective communication among leaders and employees is crucial for successful employee empowerment. Managers who trust their employees and communicate the company’s strategy and goals regularly, often have no problems giving more power to their employees and generate higher intrinsic motivation. How could HR leaders facilitate this process in the new setting of work?

• What are the challenges of creating and maintaining trust in the new virtual/hybrid workplace setting?
• What are / could be the rising issues triggered by the more intense computer-mediated communication instead of the in-person approach?
• How to sustain a culture of trust in a remote working environment?
• How to implement an employee relations plan that promotes trust and better communication across the organisation?

Moderator:
Ivan Yong, Angel Investor & Future of work advocate, Book Author, Department of Startup, Nanyang Angelz

Panelists:
Jenny Pong, Human Resources Director, Gammon Construction
Lipi Srivastava, Global VP of HR, Lynk
Stella Chiu, Internal Communication Head, Asia Pacific, Rockwell Automation
Philip Lee, Human Resources Director, Asia Pacific, The Clorox Company

Futurist Benjamin J Butler will map out the tumultuous 2020s and how organisations can build resilience to take advantage of the opportunities ahead. The world is facing unprecedented change, driven by tectonic shifts in the global economy, geopolitics, culture and the technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. AI will profoundly influence the businesses of the future, as much as the introduction of electricity. But that is not all; wave upon wave of change is upon us. Benjamin has studied and forecast change for the last 20 years. He will suggest ways to capitalise on these tectonic shifts including new forms of mindset and learning, new skills and also experimental forms of organisational structure that will re-shape the compensation and benefit strategies of organisations of the future.

Benjamin Butler
Futurist, Strategist, Philosopher

Member of Global Future Council on Quantum Computing, World Economic Forum
Futurist, UN’s Resilience Frontiers initiative
Futurist Board, Lifeboat Foundation
Member of the faculty of Futur/io, The European Institute of Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures