Are you using Social Media to foster and enhance employee engagement?
Angela Scappatura, with Canadian HR Reporter TV, has a 5 minute conversation on social media and employee engagement with Jennifer Rock, director of employee communications (U.S.) for Best Buy. This is an informative interview outlining the benefits of social media adoption from Best Buy’s perspective.
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Interesting Questions! On the topic of Gen Y I came across a video post “Jack in the Box” by Vineet Nayar, he asks if our organisations today are ready for this new generations. You might be interested to see this. http://www.vineetnayar.com/jack-in-the-box/
Great interview. Great points that every HR should follow. I posted on this very same topic on my blog about a month or so ago. I approached it from the angle that HR needs to stop POLICING social media/social networks and start embracing them as a way to 1) engage the employee and 2) improve HR overall.
I think it is interesting that in HR academia the idea of social networks and how to build them in a company and share information and all that jazz has been a buzz for about a decade, but corporate HR is so reluctant to embrace platforms that allow people to do just that. While I agree that there are some HR drawbacks to the possible reputation risk of social media/social networking sites… I argue that it is no worse than pre-social media days. That belief that just because it is on the internet it must be true is definitely going away.
I applaud Best Buy, but then they pride themselves on being cutting edge HR people (see FLEX TIME!).
Nice post.