Finnish Study Shows That Majority of HR Departments in Finnish Organizations Are Unfamiliar with Social Networking and New Collaboration Technologies
Summary
A recent two year benchmarking study conducted among 720 global companies confirms that the decades-old “HR generalist” model is less effective and that key competencies that drive business results today are HR’s familiarity with integrated talent management, understanding of strategic workforce planning, and comfort with social networking and HR collaboration technology.“Surprisingly it seems to be a challenge for HR in Finnish organizations to live up to the increased expectations to drive business results through a combination of people & culture, processes and technology.Ethos Technologies has been recently acquired by Symbio Oy, and the new and combined offering is one-stop solution to create advanced cloud and social & collaborative applications and services which support all major mobile platforms, ensuring fully optimized user experiences across any Internet-enabled device.The traditional approach of creating employee performance plans, goal setting, succession plans, and 360 degree assessments are not going away, but it must build into the more agile and networked nature of organizations,” says Leena Malin, Managing Director of HENRY ry.A recent two year benchmarking study conducted among 720 global companies confirms that the decades-old “HR generalist” model is less effective and that key competencies that drive business results today are HR’s familiarity with integrated talent management, understanding of strategic workforce planning, and comfort with social networking and HR collaboration technology.“Surprisingly it seems to be a challenge for HR in Finnish organizations to live up to the increased expectations to drive business results through a combination of people & culture, processes and technology.Ethos Technologies has been recently acquired by Symbio Oy, and the new and combined offering is one-stop solution to create advanced cloud and social & collaborative applications and services which support all major mobile platforms, ensuring fully optimized user experiences across any Internet-enabled device.