Humanizing HR: Is Technology the Answer?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The buzz: "While efficiency…is important…[the HR] function has to think of itself as talent consultants not service deliverers."" (Josh Bersin, Forbes.com) HR evolved in Europe during the Industrial Revolution from an idea by Robert Owen and Charles Babbage to structure, organize, pay and develop the people who lead and execute on business strategy. Fast-forward. The advent of technology and the need to scale have management evaluating HR with a focus on efficiencies, more than people. Now the workforce is demanding HR put the 'human' back into Human Resources. The experts speak. Tim Aldrich, EY: "If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I would do is to join a union" (F.D. Roosevelt). James Sinclair, EnterpriseJungle: Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration and 2% attention to detail (Phil Dunphy). Dr. Patti Fletcher, SAP SuccessFactors: "if it doesn't make the world a better place, don't do it" (Kid President). Join us for Humanizing HR: Is Technology the Answer?

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1:02.1	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
1:04.4	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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1:09.1	We always say it.
1:09.8	We always mean it.
1:10.7	And from what we hear, it's true. So let's see what the buzz is today. Oh, my interesting topic.
1:15.8	So I have a quote here from Josh Burson, who has been on our show a couple of years ago. He was
1:21.3	writing in Forbes recently, and the article was entitled, Why Does HR Get So Much Grief?
1:31.8	You can pull a couple of buzzwords out of that and get an idea what we're talking about,
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