HDA Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24

Workforce strategy is driven through the assessment of the HR and skills demand plans to determine staffing needs, both in numbers and skills, maintaining competitive pay and benefits, and supporting the performance management and career development process. This includes current and future needs. The skills demand plan indicates the significance of the following skills:

HR technology: HR has introduced an e-induction portal and is on the brink of implementing e-recruitment. The employee assistance programme is driven cost-effectively with payroll being implemented via the Sage 300 people system. HR Priorities and Impact

Priority

Impact

Core

Support

Improve culture and build a recognisable employer brand

• Implementation of an HDA wide change management programme to build the HDA brand. • Clear key drivers of engagement • Summarised Employee Value Proposition • Revised workforce skills and annual training plan • Implementation of the following executive management development • Incorporate values in the performance contract for all employees below management committee level • Forecasted performance view/graph by a bell curve programme and the graduate programme

Built environment engineering Development implementation and packaging Land management and acquisition Project and programme management

Facilities, Occupational Health and Safety Financial Management, Procurement and Project Finance

Legal Services

Strategy and Programme Planning and Performance

Development of efficient learning and development strategy

Subsidiary and beneficiary management

Monitoring and Evaluation

Town planning

People Management Marketing and Communication

Re-enforce a high performance culture

Organisational design is based on the regulatory framework the HDA complies with in respect of the Constitution Section 26, Housing Act, Housing Code, Special Planning & Land Use Management Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Labour Relations Act, Employment Equity Act, Skills Development Act and Compensation for Occupational Injuries Act amongst others. It also considers the organisational strategy to package performance components required to implement the HDA mandate as elaborated in the annual performance plan. Human Resources services: HR research is being conducted consistently to improve upon the delivery of HR services according to the basic HR value chain and implementation of career counselling to better guide the career journeys of talented staff.

Improve human resources governance systems

• Talent attraction and acquisition strategy • Approved Standard Operations Procedure Manual • HR modernisation • Revised Remuneration Strategy and related processes.

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