{"id":5569,"date":"2014-12-30T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/the-best-hr-and-tech-articles-of-2014\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:40:13","slug":"the-best-hr-and-tech-articles-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/en\/the-best-hr-and-tech-articles-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best HR And Tech Articles Of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bersin.com\/blog\/post\/2014\/05\/Its-Time-to-Redesign-HR.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s Time to Redesign HR<\/a>, by John Bersin in Bersin.com<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People love to write insulting articles about Human Resources. The most famous was \u201cWhy We Hate HR\u201d from FastCompany in 2005. A recent one here in LinkedIn comes from Bernard Marr, who dislikes the title of the department and then talks about why we need \u201cpeople analytics.\u201d An article in the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted companies that have chosen to do away with the function entirely\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlnt.com\/2014\/08\/08\/why-arent-we-training-more-managers-to-manage-virtual-teams\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tlnt+%28TLNT%3A+The+Business+of+HR%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Aren\u2019t We Training More Managers to Manage Virtual Teams?<\/a>, by John Zappe in TLNT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notwithstanding Yahoo\u2019s end to employee telecommuting, the global trend toward virtual workplaces is accelerating. Surveys vary widely on the percentage of companies with remote workers \u2014 from about 30 percent in some surveys up to SHRM\u2019s finding that nearly half (46 percent) of all companies have at least some contractors, freelancers, or remote workers who rarely, if ever, come into the office\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/katrina-pugh\/how-to-create-social-impa_b_4986848.html?utm_hp_ref=impactx&amp;utm_content=bufferc5987&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=plus.google.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Create Social Impact Through Thoughtful Networks<\/a>, by Katrina Pugh in The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first century after Darwin published the Origin of the Species in 1859, sociologists and biologists claimed that we act as self-serving individuals. They pointed to Darwin\u2019s \u201csurvival of the fittest\u201d and prevalence of competition in our markets and hierarchies. Yet in the 1970s researchers such as Steven Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and others exposed new dynamics of human culture\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jarche.com\/2014\/01\/working-socially\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working socially<\/a>, by Harold Jarche, Life in Perpetual Beta<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why should I, as an OD\/HR\/L&amp;D professional, concerned with the human aspects of organizations, have to understand social media and enterprise social networks? Saying we don\u2019t need to understand social media is like saying we didn\u2019t need to understand speaking, reading or writing to do our jobs before\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeannemeister\/2014\/04\/30\/the-time-is-now-to-re-think-your-future-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Time Is Now To Re-Think Your Workplace<\/a>, by Jeanne Meister, in&nbsp; Forbes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, the concept of work and the workplace has remained much the same: eight hours a day, in cubicles, and marked by performance reviews just once per year. But now, the workplace has evolved. It has become something that companies no longer take for granted, but rather see as a nexus of innovation, collaboration and a way to attract and retain top talent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fistfuloftalent.com\/2014\/03\/oops-deleted-hr-department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oops\u2013I Deleted the HR Department<\/a>, by William Tincup in Fistfuloftalent.com<\/p>\n<p>Last night, during a routine server swap, John Davies, IT Director at Kapper Media, inadvertently deleted the company\u2019s entire HR department, sources confirm. \u201cAll the files, all the data, and all the software, they\u2019re all gone,\u201d reports one employee, who spoke withreporters under the condition of anonymity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianclive.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/13\/realigning-performance-management-with-business-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Realigning Performance Management with Business Reality!<\/a>, by Ian Welsh in his blog<\/p>\n<p>The times they are a changing and our workforces also. New generations of employees are seeking better and more real time performance feedback from their supervisors. A program based on annual reviews is no longer appropriate. With the increasing use of freelancers (contract employees) and outsourcing, many workers will not be associated with a company for as long as a year, but their contribution to company results is critical. A new approach to performance management is essential to match the business dynamics<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/louiscolumbus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">84% Of Enterprises See Big Data Analytics Changing Their Industries&#8217;<\/a>,&nbsp;Competitive Landscapes In The Next Year, by Louis Columbus in Forbes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">87% of enterprises believe Big Data analytics will redefine the competitive landscape of their industries within the next three years. 89% believe that companies that do not adopt a Big Data analytics strategy in the next year risk losing market share and momentum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>By Irene Gim\u00e9nez, Content Management Specialist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get extra-knowledge from the experts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[84,267,240,274,77,286],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-trends","tag-big-data","tag-collaborative-organization","tag-hr-innovation","tag-hr-predictive-analytics","tag-hr-trends","tag-performance-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.1 - 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