The President for Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (IHRMP) in Ghana, Edward Kwapong has called on the government to pass a Human Resource Bill in Ghana.
According to Dr Kwapong, the passage of the bill will enable the Human Resource institution to attain the status of a charter and be recognized by law to regulate activities of HR in the country.
“When the institution gets the chartered status, our students will become chartered HR practitioners and this is will help regulate activities of our people and also ensure that they know their members to enforce the standard code of ethics.”
“This code of ethics will regulate the practice of HR right from recruitment, through training, performance management, reward management, career development standards and companies will follow these standards”
Speaking at a graduation ceremony of Tullow Human Resource and Monitoring programme at Marriot Hotel on Tuesday, Dr Kwapong explained the passage will also help eject practitioners without certification and license from the system.
“Formerly, anybody at all could branch into HR after tertiary education and begin to practice but now, we are running professional HR programs for practitioners to be certified in order for that person to be recognized as licensed by the only HR institute in the country.”
He added that Dr Kwapong added that they are bench marking against the best practices around the world in Kenya, Nigeria and U.K. CIPD.
He stated the HR bill which has gone through the legal processes was submitted to Parliament before the recess and the institute is hoping that it would be passed by mid-2019.
Twenty-four mentees graduated at the ceremony after a successful training by Tullow Oil Ghana and the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners launched an HR programme last year.