Keynote: Walking the Talk

Event Overview

Organizations invest significant time and resources in the development of HR policies and programs. Yet follow-through to ensure effective implementation is often lacking. As a result, employees’ perceptions of and experiences with their organization’s HR policies can differ markedly from expectations set by the organization.

What can organizations do to close this gap between intended HR policies and the reality experienced by employees? In this Keynote, Professor Rebecca Kehoe, Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies at the Cornell ILR School, will discuss why this disconnect is so common and suggest steps that organizational leadership, HR managers, and front-line leaders can take to improve HR policy implementation and ensure that employees are experiencing HR policies as intended by their organization.

What You'll Learn

Why new HR policies often lack buy-in from front-line leaders
What effective HR policy implementation looks like and why good intentions aren’t enough
The value of a strong partnership between HR and front-line leaders
Why effective HR policy implementation begins with design
How the top leadership team can make or break the success of HR policies

Speaker

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Rebecca Kehoe

Professor

Cornell ILR School

Associate Professor of HR Studies, Cornell ILR School

Rebecca Kehoe is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her scholarship brings a strategic human resource management perspective to the interplay of human capital and the broader social and organizational contexts in which it is developed and employed. Professor Kehoe’s recent areas of focus have included star performers, alignment of HR systems and business strategy, and process-based perspectives of HR system design and implementation.

Professor Kehoe’s research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and ILR Review. She has served as a representative-at-large and on the leadership track for the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group within the Strategic Management Society and on the executive committee for the HR Division of the Academy of Management. Professor Kehoe is currently an Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology.

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