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As employers continue to struggle to fill the expanding talent gap, training has become more important than ever. However, 43 percent of employees report that they found their employer’s training program to be ineffective. Training can become ineffective due to lack of employee engagement, failure to resonate with employees, and inflexibility. The fuel to the fire on these potential issues? The use of traditional classroom training.
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The perception that a small business tends to care more about its employees than does a large corporation may generally be true. But during Small Business Week, the concept of showing empathy toward employees is one that entrepreneurs should review. Implementing and maintaining empathy could form one of their company’s greatest strengths.
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Millennials and Gen Z are notorious for their digital fluency. They are the first generations who struggle to remember a time without instantaneous communication and access to information. With that kind of digital confidence, Millennials and Gen Z must be bringing a new wave of innovation to the workplace, right?
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Pay parity is all about ensuring that women and men earn the same pay for the same work, yet the gender pay gap is still alive and well. Sources vary but one estimate put it at 11% back in 2016 (source). For every dollar a man earns, a woman earns 89 cents. But can an artificially intelligent system that makes decisions without bias or regard for someone’s gender solve this problem? For example, if you could design a system that schedules work shifts and pay rates based on a blind algorithm that does not factor gender into the decision, you would logically expect to find that men and women earn the same in such a system, correct?
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Based on inputs from speakers at the NASSCOM HR Summit 2018 held in Chennai, India recently. Insightful discussions on the changing face of HR, interesting perspectives on the future of workforce and workplace, fascinating anecdotes from the experts, talks on AI, machine learning, blockchain technologies, and multigenerational workforces - the NASSCOM HR Summit that recently took place at ITC Grand Chola in Chennai, India delivered more than what it promised.
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Every organization has to figure out how to make meetings productive. It’s a complex challenge. To be effective, each meeting needs to engage the individual talents of the people involved, work to achieve the organization’s specific goals for the moment, and do so in a way that’s both culturally relevant and contextually sensitive to the world around it. Not an easy feat.
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A recent Gallup poll reported that selecting employees who psychologically “fit” their jobs can reap retention gains—these companies saw a 20 – 40% decrease in managers, skilled, and semi-skilled employees leaving for greener pastures1. In purpose-driven companies, part of that psychological profile has to be alignment with the company’s beliefs and behaviors—and reinforcement of overall purpose has to be evident at every step of the hiring process, from recruiting to training to retaining.
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The beginning of this year saw a lot of debate on automation in enterprises & its consequences. Against this backdrop, organizations are struggling to come up with transformation strategies that take into account these different perspectives on how best to achieve human resource & organizational development in a technologically driven climate. But as a handful of top organizations are discovering today, it is possible to achieve big gains in productivity & growth with the right approach.
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Every year there are tons of articles released about the latest office design trends, each promising to boost employee productivity, performance and happiness. Nevertheless, only about one-third of all employees in the United States are engaged at work – a number which has remained mostly flat over recent years.
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