The Future of HRD in a Post-Pandemic World: Insights from Dr Wilson Wong
This chapter is an interview with Dr Wilson Wong. He is Head of Insight and Futures at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Chair of the Human Capital Standards Committee at the British Standards Institution (BSI). Wilson share
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1 Introduction Dr Wilson Wong is Head of Insight and Futures at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Independent Chair of the Human Capital Standards Committee (HCS/1) and Deputy Chair of the Knowledge Management Standards Committee (KMS/1) at the British Standards Institution (BSI). Wilson leads the Institute’s futures and foresight capability. He has been involved in futures research since 2000. His most recent publication with the Malaysian government was ‘The Future of Talent in Malaysia 2035’ and is co-editor of Human Capital Management Standards: A Complete Guide. His career has spanned academia, corporate finance and national ICT development policy. Wilson’s PhD in Economic Psychology (Behavioural Economics) was on opportunity recognition. He is on the Board of the International Journal of Human Resource Development: Practice, Policy and Research (sponsored by the World M. Loon (*) Bath Spa University, Bath, UK e-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s) 2020 M. Loon et al. (eds.), The Future of HRD, Volume I, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52410-4_10
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Federation of People Management Association, European Associations of People Management and University Forum for Human Resource Development), Editorial Board of Human Resource Development Quarterly journal (HRDQ) and Advisory Boards at Nottingham Business School (NBS) and the Work and Equality Institute. He is Visiting Professor at NBS and Visiting Faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). A member of the International Association of Applied Psychology and an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, he was called to the English Bar in 1990. Prior to his role at the CIPD, he worked in technology policy and financial/investment research. Given his in-depth experience and expertise in futures research that has taken him around the world, we sought Wilson’s critical perspectives on the future of human resource development (HRD). The views in this interview are entirely his own. Dr Wilson Wong was interviewed by Dr Mark Loon.
10.2 Interview Transcript 10.2.1 The Pandemic Dr Wong, thank you very much for giving us your time to share with us your experience and insights to what may be in store for us in general and what you see as the future for human resource development. But let’s start with the big trends, things that you think that we need to pay attention to and then ultimately, how that impacts HR and HRD. Wilson: Let us start with what’s uppermost in everybody’s mind which is this pandemic. Pandemics or epidemics have been part of the scenarios in Futures work at least from the ’90s. These are understood to be inevitable events, of uncertain time frame but when it happens will have a huge impact on human communities. Futures work recognised the effects of globalization and a confluence of other factors that could exarcebate these event, and that the risks were significantly high. However, with exceptions, corporate leaders and
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