How can HR use Technology to Drive Business Impact?

Our guest on this week’s episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, speaking to David Green, is none other than Dave Ulrich, the renowned university professor, author, speaker, coach and co-founder of The RBL Group. In this extract taken from their conversation they discuss how HR can use technology to drive business impact and whether the hype that surrounds Digital HR is just that – hype. If you’re interested in learning more about the how the role of the HR Business Partner is evolving in a digital age, then I urge you to listen to this podcast / read this blog post.

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Five Steps to Crafting Your Perfect Role

Hanadi El Sayyed discusses the impact job crafting can have on self fulfilment, job satisfaction and whether employees feel they’re carrying out meaningful work. For organisations keen on creating workplace environments where employees thrive and perform at their best, job crafting is a powerful tool for employee engagement and wellness if implemented and managed effectively.

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How Do You Create a Culture That Supports Employee Experience?

Mark Levy and Volker Jacobs continue to explore the depths of employee experience. In previous articles they’ve studied how HR as EX facilitators can work with business managers owning most of the actual employee experience, how to implement EX in a transformative way, how to measure it and how to drive conclusions from benchmarking and analysing EX data. What they now focus on is the data models - specifically what data models should be used to focus the efforts of the entire organisation on employee experience to track and benchmark it over time?

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Why should Employee Experience be part of your 2020 HR Budget?

Mark Levy and Volker Jacobs examine the business benefits that their clients have gained as a result of their Employee Experience investments. Looking at Employee Experience from almost each HR angle, and you will find a very compelling use case for EX management - a logical bridge can easily be built between the core ‘products’ of HR teams offered to the business and the management of employee experience. Mark and Volker explore whether employee experience is the umbrella under which HR practitioners of the world shall unite?

Customer Experience of HRVolker Jacobs15 August 2019Employee Experience, EX Comment

Is HR Ready for the Future of Work?

In a research study conducted by Florian Fleischmann, Maximilian Tallgauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Festing, more than 120,000 HR job postings from nine countries have been leveraged to evaluate how HR departments are adapting to the changing business environment. The results reveal a lot about the challenges HR should address to lead the digital transformation.

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The Best HR and People Analytics Articles of July 2019

In his monthly round-up of data-driven HR articles for July, David features a selection of data infused articles covering topics such as Employee Experience, Organisational Network Analysis, Workforce Planning and People Analytics. There’s a special on how data and technology is helping drive initiatives in Diversity and Inclusion. Featured authors include John Boudreau, Lexy Martin, Dave Ulrich, Littal Shemar Haim and the article of the month by Joe Freed.

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Why you can’t afford to NOT do Strategic Workforce Planning

Continuing on from her last great article, which details the plight of Strategic Workforce Planning, Alicia Roach puts forward a compelling case for why its imperative that organisations invest in building a solid strategic workforce plan that is not only aligned to their business strategy but underpins it. She examines some of the core elements that need to considered when driving a culture of strategic workforce planning throughout the organisation, this extends beyond just technology to culture and leadership.

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How to Prepare for the Pitfalls in Employee Experience Transformation

As Employee Experience continues to gain more traction and importance and becomes an ever increasing priority for Chief HR Officers, as a HR function we don’t have a clear plan on how to execute on it. The TI People along with 20 HR leaders from across the United States spent two days breaking down the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of sustainable EX improvement and co-creating solutions to the pitfalls, they’ve seen unstick the best of intentions in EX.

How Can You Use Technology to Support a Culture of Inclusion and Diversity?

The case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace is compelling – not just because it is the right thing to do, but because numerous studies suggest it can drive better business performance too. With advances in technology and the growth of people analytics, HR increasingly has the tools it needs to promote and embed diversity and inclusion initiatives, and perhaps most critically prove that it can be a significant driver of business performance. In David Green’s latest expert interview he speaks to Stacia Garr co-founder and principal analyst at RedThread Research about the exciting and insightful research they’ve been conducting in the D&I space.

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How Nestlé uses People Analytics to Measure Gender Pay Gap and Equity

In this video clip and transcript from this week’s Digital HR Leaders podcast, Jordan Pettman and David Green discuss how Nestlé is using people analytics to understand and measure gender pay gap and equity. Jordan gives some great examples of how Nestlé has built a model to understand pay and to enable members of the broader HR community to self-serve the analytics and insights themselves. If you’re interested in learning more about the People Analytics journey at Nestlé, then I urge you to watch this video/read this blog with Jordan.

People AnalyticsDavid Green23 July 2019gender pay, People Analytics, DiversityComment