HR & Social Media is Featured on Mashable.com

Nov/10

HR & Social Media is featured on Mashable.com

by ReThinkHR.org | Leadership, Work, HR & Inspiration by @BenjaminMcCall under Contributors, Guest Post, Human Resources, Leadership, Learning, Social Networking

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I believe that it is the time for Human Resources. The time that many companies, people, employees, vendors and executives are seeing the need of the people who represent and lead the roles to add value to the overall effectiveness in the organization.

mashable logo HR & Social Media is featured on Mashable.com HR is showing up more and more. This is evidenced through publications like BNet.com and other national papers and blogs. Mashable is no exception and they have talked about Social Media in the workplace context for awhile.

I am happy we as a profession are getting more recognition. It is just more reinforcement for us as professionals. We have more tools and encouragement to be champions for our function as well as advertise that passion. I am very excited to be included in an article on Mashable.com. It was written by a great advocate for the field Sharlyn Lauby and includes some great contributors to the convo! I invite you to add to the discussion in the Mashable article entitied ”The Future of HR & SocialMedia” http://t.co/gv8xkyI - Leave your thoughts.

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http://twitter.com/garelaos Gareth Jones

Hi Ben. Bit of both! Mainly chastising organisations and leaders, not really HR, although i think a few people in HR have the heads too far up their backsides trying to justify themselves with a ‘business’ focus. But its a good time - great opportunity for HR. Time to make organisations truly human and social!
Anonymous

Wow, that was a mouthful. Can’t tell if you are chastising HR or pointing out the slow positives. Thanks for contributing the opinion!
http://twitter.com/garelaos Gareth Jones

The future of successful organisations is simply down to the quality, and more importantly the motivation of the people within them. Forget technology or product - none of them provide any medium or long term competitive advantage. In the end, the only point of difference is the people you employ.

For way too long, organisations and especially the leaders that inhabit the comfy executive offices have totally disregarded this fact, despite trotting out the usual hollow and insincere statements about “our people being our most important asset” in the annual report. Total BS.

Incredibly, HR (and many of the professionals in the function) has also tried to distance itself from the ‘people’, preferring to refer to them as ‘capital’ or ‘resources’ in a vain attempt to present themselves as more business savvy. Its just wrong. And before anyone throws a rock at me, i say these words as an HR professional myself who has, in the past, been guilty of them all.

But along the way i have wised up. And social media is going to force one helluva wising up across the globe, in all organisations. If, as a leader, you think you can ignore this trend, this social tsunami then you are very much mistaken. I feel for you and your ignorance, I really do.

It seems to me that HR are, for once, perfectly positioned as the ‘human’ force within an organisation to embrace this phenomenon, this desire, this urge - call it what you like. Organisations that get it will, I believe, transform the way they operate and HR could be right at the centre of that transformation.