Editor’s Note

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a part of our lives today and there is no denying of the fact. The positives and negatives of AI is a much-discussed topic. Like it or not, AI is transforming the workplace and the workforce in a tremendous way.

Will A Robot Be Your Manager By 2025?: AI is transforming the workplace and the workforce

​​​​​​​Intelligence is no longer exclusively to humans; the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is transforming the business landscape and the workplace. Machines are present in healthcare, security, manufacturing, neuro-technology, education, and marketing, to cite just some examples. They can now recognize a human face, drive a car, assist students, and even hack your brain!

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Featured Research - HR and Talent Management Benchmarks 2018

HR practitioners use benchmarks and trend data for a variety of reasons: to get an up-to-date snapshot of the profession, to compare their departmental operations to averages, to guide HR staffing and workforce planning, and more. In some cases, benchmarks can also be used to connect specific HR practices to overall HR performance.  

6 Things High-Performing Managers Do Right: What you can do to become a high-performing manager

For several decades, Root has both studied and counseled prominent organizations around the world. Leading companies – regardless of industry – have many things in common. But the one that stands out the most and has the highest probability of making a significant impact is the presence of high-performing managers.

The Annual Performance Review Is Dead: Here’s what’s replacing it

​​​​​​​It’s no mystery that the annual performance review is failing as a tool for providing a picture of employee performance and as a tool for benchmarking that can lead to promotion. There’s little disagreement about its inadequacy, yet HR departments aren’t setting it aside in favor of a more effective solution. Why?

5 Resolutions For HR Professionals: Creating a better workplace

We’re barely a month and a half into the New Year, and most of us are trying very hard to stick to the resolutions we set ourselves. Apart from personal growth and goals, it’s important that we look at our workplace and resolve to make it better for both our employees and ourselves. Let’s look at the top 5 resolutions that every HR professional should make, as well as try and achieve this year:

Reduce The Impact Of Employee Turnover: 3 key concepts

Employee turnover is an element of corporate administration that impacts every company, regardless of size. Conventional wisdom on reducing employee turnover is well known. Make sure you are hiring the right people, get creative with benefits, manage employee engagement levels and give appropriate recognition and praise.

The Price Of Productivity Problems And How To Solve Them

Are high-performing organizations simply blessed with finding the most productive people to work for them? The short answer is no, so we’re going to look more in-depth at the long answer – how they bypass the problems of low productivity by empowering employees to want to be more productive.

Culture Lessons From Building A Chatbot

Is there another way that we can do this? That was the question that ultimately led to the most pivotal project of my career. Together with some of my HR colleagues, we found a more efficient way to answer IBMers’ questions about the company’s new approach to performance management – Checkpoint.