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\"Human<\/a>In today\u2019s organizational environment, human resources (or personnel as it was once referred to) is being asked to do much more than simply recruit talented employees, oversee benefits, and maintain personnel records.\u00a0 They are now responsible for 1) legal compliance as it relates to maintaining those employee records, 2) managing employee leave in accordance with legal statutes, 3) establishing and monitoring organizational policy, 4) administering complex labor agreements, and 5) handling workplace conduct issues.\u00a0 In addition, Human Resources (HR) is responsible for designing effective human capital management plans, workforce reductions, and dealing with potentially intense labor negotiations and benefits administration often across multiple bargaining groups.\u00a0 While this list is by no means exhaustive, it is easy to see that the current human resources professional could benefit from automation.\u00a0 The key, however, is not to simply automate a process.\u00a0 Rather, it is far more important to enhance, optimize, and streamline these processes first and then deploy the best and most appropriate technology tool to that highly efficient process.<\/p>\n

While Information Technology (IT) serves as the hub of the proverbial wheel in virtually all industries, HR serves as the spokes providing and maintaining the human capital necessary to run the proverbial machine.\u00a0 Without effective human capital, an organization will not function well if at all.\u00a0 The problem-solving methodologies coupled with technology-centric tools that IT professionals implement could dramatically alter the business process effectiveness of the HR operation.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s the use of a simple fillable<\/i> employment application or a completely automated, Web-based process that captures each and every component of an applicant\u2019s relevant personal data, employment history, education, etc., IT can provide highly effective HR-centric solutions.<\/p>\n

The important first step is to understand HR\u2019s goals, objectives, responsibilities, and how these fit into the overall architecture of the organization. \u00a0\u00a0Once these are in place (and agreed upon by executive management), the HR department can move on to the next step, which is to understand the challenges facing HR.\u00a0 These include employee relations, effective strategies for human resource management (e.g., the nurturing and enhancement of the employee to obtain greater levels of productivity), and the need for policy creation, implementation, and adherence.\u00a0 The third step is to understand what drives value in the organization and where HR fits in.\u00a0 This is typically found in decreased voluntary turnover, better alignment of the workforce with the organization\u2019s strategy and objectives, and an overall increase in workforce productivity (both from new employees getting up to speed and existing employees continuing to forge ahead).\u00a0 Finally, the fourth step is to understand the future of the HR function and how it will likely change over time within the organization. \u00a0These areas include emerging trends in social media, new theories of organizational design, the use of effective learning management systems, and the need to attract a new breed of talent that is innovative, technically savvy, a quick study, and ambitious.<\/p>\n

To accomplish these steps will require reliance on IT and the tools it brings.\u00a0 These tools include constantly updated and information-centric employee intranets, self-service benefits administration for simple modifications and updates, and effective communication mechanisms that go beyond just e-mail and text messaging.\u00a0 All in all, the new workplace is knowledge-centric.\u00a0 As such, HR\u2019s role must shift toward effectively managing the trends of this new environment, and to do, it must embrace IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s organizational environment, human resources (or personnel as it was once referred to) is being asked to do much more than simply recruit talented employees, oversee benefits, and maintain personnel records.\u00a0 They are now responsible for 1) legal compliance as it relates to maintaining those employee records, 2) managing employee leave in accordance with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[604,39],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-gov","category-overview","tag-information-technology","tag-innovations-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow Can IT Professionals Assist H.R. 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In 2013, Dr. Falkow earned his Master of Arts in Security Studies, Homeland Defense and Security from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey where he received the Outstanding Thesis Award for his thesis entitled, Does Homeland Security Constitute an Emerging Academic Discipline? Finally, Dr. Falkow recently earned his Doctorate in Policy, Planning and Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California in December of 2020 where he published his dissertation entitled, A Framework for Good Local Governance: Achieving Prosperity in an Increasingly Complex Environment. www.falkow.com","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.falkow.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mdfalkow","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michael-falkow-39906b1\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mfalkow"],"url":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/author\/mfalkow\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}