What HR Executives are Wishing for in 2017

What HR Executives are Wishing for in 2017What HR Executives are Wishing for in 2017What HR Executives are Wishing for in 2017 RossheimWhat do human resources leaders wish they could bring to their organizations in the New Year? We asked, and they and their advisors answered.HR professionals wish they couldGet rid of the tech glitches in the recruitment experience. There is acontinuous stream of innovations from makers of HR software, ranging from mobile apps toenterprise CRM. Yet ansicht upgrades often bring related bugs and integration issues during the integration process. HR leaders wish they could eliminate these issues, which adversely impact user adoption.HR executives want to streamline the whole application and recruiting experienceinto a seamless ecosystem, says Kevin Mulcahy, a partner with Future Workplace and co-author with Jeanne Meister of The Future Workplace Experience.Use mobile technology to streamline recruitment. Recruiters, hiring managers and job candidates wis h they could keep up with search-and-recruitment transactions as they move through their days. Thats why 46 percent of retail hiring managers wish they had a mobile app for hiring 47 percent want a mobile job application for prospective employees, according to a survey by iCIMS.Find out what different groups of employees want. In times when many niche labor markets are seeing a significantskills gap, HR yearns to segment the market to recruit more successfully.Companies want to understand the demographics of their employee segments, by generation, by geography, by skill set, and by full-time employees versus gig workers, says Meister, a partner with Future Workplace.Market the employment value proposition to Generation Z. By one definition, Generation Zs oldest members are beginning to graduate from college. Forward-thinking HR leaders know that now is the time to learn how to recruit and retain the post-Millennial generation.They want to appeal to Generation Z as they enter the wor kplace, says Mulcahy. Gen Z seeks experiences, theyre oriented more to visuals than text. To attract them, companies need to offer Gen Zers room to experiment they want to try things and make mistakes.Take a best-practices approach to the standardization of onboarding. HR leaders wish their lines of business could agree on how to give new employees the best possible start at the company.Some organizations are streamlining onboarding and delivering a better experience in the process, says Elissa Tucker, research program manager for human capital management at APQC, a non-profit HR benchmarking organization. Theyre looking at how its done in different parts of the organization and taking the best of each.Given the obstacle that people want to stick with what theyre doing, adds Tucker, its good to start by getting feedback from stakeholders about what they think needs improvement.Use data to better understand and manage people. Human resources professionals wish they had better visibil ity into the data that correlates with employee behavior.HR people want to use data-driven human capital management to help them make decisions about where to focus, what types of talent will turn out to be successful candidates and who on your team is at risk of leaving if you dont give them new challenges, says Tucker. Having datahelps HR leaders get other executives to listen.Institutionalize better dialog between supervisors and employees. HR folks wish top management would take the lead in demonstrating that frequent and meaningful employee feedback is the norm.My no. 1 wish for 2017 is to have much improved, more frequent and regular ongoing steady dialog between managers and their employees consistent, regular, meaningful, helpful, good feedback, both positive and developmental, says Richard Morgan, senior vice president of human resources at Rocket Software.Distinguish performance evaluations form career development. Its difficult for many employees to listen to what their manager has to say about their professional future when minutes earlier, they were having an intense discussion in their performance review about how they measured up. Each manager should meet with each employee twice per cycle, first to do a performance review and then a few weeks later to keep it separate to discuss career development, says Morgan.Stand by the companys deeply held values. Finally, Mulcahy wishes that companies will adhere to their core values and workplace ethics, come what may.The president-elect has done many workplaces a favor by reminding managers that companies can have corporate values that are different from whats going on outside the organization, says Mulcahy. We elected a candidate whose behavior and words would have violated fruchtwein HR policies.