Guidance

Global HR Design

Developed by Government People Group, the Global HR Design sets the standard for user centric HR services for the public sector, with a focus on UK Government.

From:
Civil Service and Government People Group
Published
31 May 2018
Last updated
31 July 2024 — See all updates

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Global HR Design Principles 2024 (PDF)

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Developed by Government People Group (GPG) working cross-functionally through the Functional Convergence Programme, to deliver consistent single Global Design artefacts for HR, Finance, Commercial and Grants Management.

All UK Government departments, and shared service models are formally required to converge on this Global Design for HR and is underpinned by the Government Functional Standard GovS 003: Human Resources (PDF, 364KB). The design may equally be used across the wider public sector.

The single Global Design product for HR, Finance, Commercial and Grants Management, is the NOVA: The Functional Reference Model.

NOVA is a leading practice design for corporate services, intended to be used as a design schematic for technology or system design, particularly, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planner) design. Its purpose is to introduce standardisation to the design of future government technology deployments, therein driving system/functional interoperability.

NOVA provides for HR, Finance, Commercial and Grants Management functions an integrated and comprehensive set of assets split into 5 categories:

  • PROCESS: Functional Taxonomies, L1-L4/L5 Process Maps detailing roles, activities, and decision points and a common Business Glossary - providing core definitions and terms.
  • DATA: Data Standards with core Data Attributes, categorised by Functional and Cross Functional.
  • PERFORMANCE: Standardised catalogue of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) & Process Performance Indicators (PPIs)
  • LEADING PRACTICES: Leading Practices, Controls and Policies libraries aligned to each process area
  • TECHNOLOGY: Technology & System Overlays for ERP vendors; Data Mapping technology overview; application architecture and data flow diagrams

For more information on NOVA, or access to the full suite of data standards within the Data Dictionary, please visit the NOVA gov.uk page.

Updates to this page

Published 31 May 2018
Last updated 31 July 2024 + show all updates

  1. Replaced existing documents with an updated version that consolidates them together.

  2. Updated the contact email address

  3. The initial publication of the full priority datasets that Functions and Clusters need to focus on to prepare their systems and procurements for the standardisation that will enable integration, interoperability and cross-Government analytics.

  4. Some attachments have now been withdrawn.

  5. Leading Practice attachment updated

  6. First published.

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