Fergus Bary
Director

Fergus Barry has worked as Director of the Human Resource Management Programmes at the Irish Management Institute. In that role he developed the Diploma in Strategic Human Resource Management and the Essentials of Human Resource Management Programmes. He also developed and delivered Management Development and Human Resource Management Consultancy Programmes for a wide variety of Organisations in both the Private and Public sectors. He has delivered programmes for organisations such as General Electric, Pepsi, Boston Scientific, Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment, Department of Foreign Affairs,  Dairygold, Central Bank, Eagle Star, Kerry Group, Glaxo Smithkline and Fexco etc.  As Head of the School of Business and Humanities at the National College of Ireland he led the design, approval and launch of a new Masters Degree in Human Resource Management.  Fergus has lectured in Human Resource Management at both under graduate and post graduate levels.

Fergus has led recent research projects on Strategic Retention, Performance Management, Succession Planning and the usage of Competencies in industry. He is currently researching the Effective Management of Mergers and Acquisitions and his book on Strategic Human Resource Management will be published in Autumn 2004.

He is unique amongst Irish and UK consultants in that he has adapted the ‘best practice’ thinking from the USA and particularly the practical models and tools developed by Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank at Michigan and uses these to improve HR practice in client companies.  He has presented with Dave Ulrich and has brought the leading HR thought leaders such as Mike Beer (Harvard), Charles O’Reilly (Stanford), and Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford) to Ireland.

Prior to joining IMI he had over 17 years experience in the Human Resources area and has held key roles in:

• Job evaluation
• Pay and conditions administration
• Training and Development
• Staff communications
• Developing partnership processes and structure
• HR Strategy
• Benchmarking of competitor performance
• Industrial relations negotiations
• Internal consulting
• Management of change
• Business planning

Fergus has been Human Resources Manager for a number of key production units in ESB. 

In industry he has overseen the introduction of

• Management Development
• Major structural change
• Recruitment and Selection Systems
• Performance Management Systems
• Team-working
• Disciplinary and Grievance Processes

New reward systems :

• Partnership processes
• Downsizing
• Multi - skilling
• Bullying and harassment policies and procedures

He has completed strategic consultancy work at national and international level.

Fergus has delivered a number of papers at international conferences on topics such as Strategic Human Resource Management, Team Working and the Role of the Front Line Manager.  He has acted as lead tutor with the ‘Industry Matters’ training programme for post-graduate students.   He has also lectured at graduate and postgraduate level on topics such as Human Resource Management, Business Communications and Industrial Relations.

His major interest is in the development and implementation of Strategic Human Resource Management Policies and Procedures which maximise performance and improve business results.

Empower Solutions are now providing a fully integrated bespoke SHRM Service for a number of organisations which are designed to improve business performance. His professional qualifications are : Director, hSenid Software International
Managing Partner, Empower Solutions
BA (Management) (1st Class)
MSc (Organisational Behaviour)
Professional Member of the Society for
Human Resource Management (USA)
Strategic Human Resource Management Programme, University of Michigan
Strategic Human Resource Management Programme, Harvard Business School
Certificate in Training and Education Design, University of Southern California