National Human Resource Management Standard

Excellence Through People is Ireland's national standard for human resource management. 
Since its development, the Standard has grown in popularity with industry, both services and manufacturing sectors and also public sector organisations.

Excellence Through People provides a recognised framework for organisations to enhance performance and relise strategies through the management and development of their people.  The focus of the Standard is to get organisations to look at their people as a key source of competitive advantage.

Excellence Through People is the only quality standard dedicated to the role of people and their impact on business.  Excellence Through People is available to all organisations, regardless of size oe sector.  More than 700 organisations use the Excellence Through People Roadmap to business improvement. 

The two main objectives to the standard are:

• To act as a business improvement tool as well as being a driver for change and innovation;
• To promote employee learning, development and involvement in line with the organisation’s goals. 

"Excellence Through People is a roadmap and guideline for organisations to achieve World Class standards in people management and so deliver World Class results"

Chairman Excellence Through People Approvals Board

For more information about the Excellence Through People standard, contact your local Services to Business Office or the dedicatedExcellence Through People Unit.or visit  www.excellencethroughpeople.ie