HR

We have been discussing innovations in the HR Tech space. Key benefits include the reduction in costs, raising productivity and improving employee retention amongst many others. Overall, one of the biggest advantages is that it helps HR become far more strategic. A strategic HR function entails increasing employee productivity and using HR to implement strategies over a period of time with the agenda of creating an organization ready for the future.

How does AI help formulate a Strategic HR function?

There’s a good deal of commentary and discussion about the impostor phenomenon appearing in social media and the popular press recently. However, there’s an absence of appropriate scrutiny of how workplace structures and leadership behaviours impact and exacerbate the experience of intellectual fraudulence.

My work aims to change the perception that the impostor phenomenon be considered an individual experience, dealt with in isolation from the workplace and structures we all encounter as part of our usual work activity.

Given that AI and machine learning are permeating through all facets of an organisation, it is only natural to expect that Culture Building would be one of the key areas that stand to benefit.

How does the deployment of emerging AI digital technologies help build Culture?

The sleek and smart setting at the Haymarket Hotel was the perfect compliment to a night of thought leadership and industry defining conversation, led by HR executives from a fantastic variety of industries and backgrounds.

The agenda focused on:

• The shift from HR to People

• HR Automation & AI

• Employee Engagement

• The People Experience

To give 2018 a proper sendoff, we’ve collected seven of the year’s most impactful pieces of thought leadership, which equip you with insight, information and best practices to help you assess and advance your own efforts. This collection of research reports, case studies, webinars, blogs and videos featured topics like Total Talent Acquisition, candidate experience, employer brand, recruitment technology, and these pieces will give you strong building blocks for the year to come:

Professor Dave Ulrich recently produced a video on the Future of HR (Outside/In) which emphasised the need for HR Strategy and Processes to be aimed at providing a service to the Investor, Customer and to Society.

Digital disruption has overhauled the rules of employee engagement amongst many other aspects in the employee and talent space. Businesses understand the importance of engaged employees and its effect on their productivity and commitment levels. They now need to leverage AI based digital advancements to help their employees collaborate, connect and communicate with a prime focus on keeping them happy and lowering the attrition rate.

As discussed earlier, digital disruption affects all aspects  of the the Employee and Talent agenda . However, the challenge facing every organization is to also find the right balance between return on investment and cost involved in using technology .

How does deployment of Emerging AI digital technologies improve Costs and Productivity?

We have been talking about the impact of disruption on the Employee and Talent agenda. Today, everyone is used to being treated as a ‘Customer’ and the same expectation carries through when people enter an organisation. The growth of technology organisations (the world’s 5 biggest businesses are all technology based) and the benchmark they have set around how employees get treated (flexibility, free food & drink, personal perks, great decor & design etc) have raised the bar for other organisations.

Recently, The Business Transformation Network hosted an event on “HR TechOps - Bridging the Gap between HR Tech and Operational Excellence”, which is a topic of growing importance in business today. The main questions the conversation revolved around were:

1.     What HR Technology platforms are being implemented and how is the implementation process going?

2.     How can HR technology be used to improve efficiency and employee experience?