With the rise in involvement of technology in every organization irrespective the type of business activity, the HR department is also evolving to keep in line with the technological development.
Here are few HR tools and ideas of the digital age which are re-shaping the workplace and the workforce.
In earlier days, employees learned to gain skills for getting a job, in today’s world the career itself is a continuous journey of learning. Today, organizations can compete based on the skill levels of employees and adaptation of new technologies. The organizations try hard to keep themselves and their staff updated by providing continuous learning opportunities and a deeply embedded culture of development. The new age learning tools with use of content, video, and mobile learning applications are much in demand.
The new age recruitment tools have enabled two-way communication between recruiters and candidates. The tools not only allow recruiters to reach and research their candidates through social media, it allows candidates also to learn more about companies and organizations online and fount about their employee policies and culture. The innovative methods in talent acquisition like experimentation with tech solutions, finding candidates through cognitive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine learning, or robotic process automation are bringing disruption in the recruitment techniques.
The new tools for developing and building culture, employee engagement are bringing the employees closer to the organization. Many organizations are aiming to improve the employee experience to keep the employees more connected and active. Today’s employees want to work in a culture which is more engaging, productive, and enjoyable. Keeping the employees as the biggest critic and appreciator, the organizations are using tools based on feedback. HR tools focused on wellness and fitness apps, employee self-service technologies on utilized to build programs, teams, and strategies that improve the overall employee experience.
The age new technologies have forced the organizations to change the way they evaluate, measure and recognize employee performance. New practices with much clarity in processes and more standardized approach to goal management, continuous feedback, leave management and reward systems are making it easy to keep record of every employee.
With growth in technological disruptions and increase in competitions, organizations are looking for leaders who are completely different from yesteryears leaders and those who are adaptable to fastest changing ways of working. The leadership development tools with real life experiments, and with feedback evaluation systems are gaining more advantage. Organizations are looking for leaders who are who can build teams, keep the team connected, build a culture of innovation and promote continuous improvement in work methods. In view of this Leadership development tools are becoming more popular.
Apart from tools for analyzing sales and revenue, the analytics tools that are in trend are related to People analytics. These tools help in analaying behavior patterns, improvements after training programs, feedback from employee engagement programs, impact of performance assessment and helps in strategizing future for the workforce. Tools related to workforce planning, talent management, and operational improvement and much in demand whereas the People analytics tools are enabling organizations to conduct real-time analysis and arrive at conclusions on real time basis.
The digitation should not be limited to sales and business processing departments. The digitization is equally important in Human Resources department, which simplifies the people management processes and helps in retention of the best employees. If the HR department is not equipped with digitized tools and technologies, they would be falling short to match up with the employees’ expectations and they may even fall short in attracting new talents. Digital transformation is important to develop ways of working which further implemented into organizations to streamline their protocols and processes both internally and externally.
With all the new age tools and changes in technologies, the organizations have to reconsider and match up about how they design jobs, organize work, and plan for future growth. The new terminology related to the advanced workforce management is nothing but ‘the augmented workforce.’ With every passing days technology is evolving and forcing to bring changes in professions, workforce management, employee attraction and retention tools. The evolvement in technology is making the organizations rethink the roles their employees will play in the future as employees are becoming the role models for the organizations in the digital age.
The importance of technology in business growth and success cannot be ruled out, similarly importance of technology in human resource management is unavoidable. The organizations which are keeping the HR team updated with the latest HR tools and techniques are able to compete and succeed in the long run. The HR department is also playing important role in developing leaders and making employees as their role models in front of their competitors. It is a known fact that, happy employees give higher productivity and to keep the employees happy, the HR department needs to be advanced and digitized.