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HR Tech Trends

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  Introduction There are lots of business organizations that utilize technology inappropriately in personnel management and personnel operations. For example, the famous incident where Amazon Inc had biased recruiting algorithms and Uber’s facial recognition feature supposedly discriminating towards racial or marginalized ethnic group drivers demonstrate that technology should be used wisely in people operations. (Butler 2021; Dastin 2018). Considering all departments of an organization, HR should drive the ethical implementation of technology. HR Tech is a common term used for comprehensive hardware and software employed to facilitate automation in human resources (ChangeBoard Team 2020). Today, more Human resources departments utilize technology to recruit talent (ex-55% HR departments in the USA) and other personnel purposes (ex-upskilling existing personnel through Artificial Intelligence). Hence, it is paramount for HR departments to ensure that HR tech delivers the intended...
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Redefining work environment

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  Introduction HR landscape has seen a significant stream of changes. The emergence of technology has transformed where work takes place and how work is accomplished. More specifically, the Covid-19 pandemic has urged HRs to adopt technology-centric work practices (Totah 2021). If the pandemic informed us of any one thing, it is that organizations have to transform in order to survive inevitably. This pertains to devising a digital transfiguration strategy that will endure, more essentially, elongates beyond technicalities to confront personnel-centered issues (Boland et al. 2021). As stated by David Millner (Founder-HR Curator), new technology application is about culture calibration, talent protocols, structures, and procedures to equilibrium efficacy and innovation scopes, emphasized on assuring there exists a capability to offer an apparent, sustainable, gaugable influence on the entity since it continually evolves (Lam 2021). However, the application of new technologies is...
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Redefining Employee Experience in the New Normal

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  Introduction Employee experience encloses things personnel encounter and note across their stint at an institution ( Lee n.d. ). Before Covid-19 hit hard on the world, personnel were customarily present physically in the office where they carried out work and onboarding, and training. Due to Covid-19, human resources departments were forced to confront every facet of the employee experience and implement cybernetic programs (Maltese 2021). Source: https://www.talentmgt.com/articles/2021/07/26/redefining-employee-performance-for-a-post-covid-era-2/ Redefining Employee Experience This entails reconsidering or assessing: Personnel Onboarding Induction is a crucial facet in the personnel lifecycle. This pandemic has urged human resources to reconsider and invest in distinct induction plans according to each employee type (ex- 30-days, 60-days, 90-days, etc.).   Organizational culture It is pivotal that the approach organizations bear cultural facets of the induction procedures...
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The Role of HR in Work Stress Management

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  Introduction Difficult in balancing work and life develop work stress. Work stress can be caused by different factors pertaining to the workplace (ex-operational process changes, strategy changes, institutional restructuring, work obligation changes, work description changes, work associations alterations, novel technologies, equipment dearth, work conditions, etc.) as well as non-work life (ex-individual attributes changes, health concerns, debt burden, family committals, etc.) (‘Workplace Stress: A 21 st Century Health Epidemic’ 2018). Source: http://www.peopleventure.org.in/steps-to-manage-stress-at-work/ The Role of HR in Work Stress Management Effective situation handling The existing corporate environment is altering continually. Hence, novel organizational procedures and ideologies are surfaced to entities and personnel. Human resources are required to be thoroughly conscious regarding amendments, change buy-in strategies (for resisting personnel), and efficacious chang...
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Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Elevation

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  Introduction It is important to note that diversity, equality, and inclusion are turning into a sprouting focus domain for companies recently. Distinct movements (ex-Black lives matter, #Metoo, LGBTQ, etc.) have augmented and feigned companies to provide a higher position to diversity, equality, and inclusion ( Owen 2021 ). In return, several organizations (ex-Google, Nielsen, etc.) are offering more emphasis to diversity, equality, and inclusion compared to former times ( Totah 2020 ). At present, organizations are embedding diversity, equality, and inclusion in most organizational components such as personnel engagement reviews, recruitment, and providing a higher voice for all employees' ideas, etc. Source: https://www.bnl.gov/do/id/ Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Trends   Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion discussion pervadation Discussions taking place outside an organization regarding diversity, equality, and inclusion are augmenting the need for human resour...
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Work-Life Balance Maintenance

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  Work-Life Balance Maintenance Introduction Individuals are contented according to distinct factors and distinct levels. In particular, a particular group of individuals considers personal committals as the primary content factor whilst another group of individuals consider work as the principal content factor.   Moreover, Generation X employees ascertain work as a method for fulfilling ends, and generation Y personnel contemplates the profession as a core-life activity ( Wedgwood 2019, para.7 ) . Work-life balance is identified as a fitting technique in systematizing work and non-work which contains career aspirations and life extraneous to work (personal committals, recreation, pleasure, spiritualism, etc.) (Beauregard & Henry 2009). Figure 1 : Work Life Balance Source: https://www.versoaltima.com/work-life-balance/ Work-Life Balance Maintenance 1.      Schedules of work The focal emphasis of work-life balance is balancing job obligation...
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