Mr Malik revealed that there were concerns about financial and HR issues at the organisation.
However, changes in technology is taking this beyond the closed doors and locked databases of what HR understands about any individual, into the open field of social business.
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When HR hears about a manager who is doing things a little bit differently their first reaction all too often is to want to kill it outright or wrap it in a deadly python of bureaucracy.
We're not talking about back office here - HR, payroll and so on.
Just 40% of employees feel well-informed about the benefits their companies offer, and less than half (46%) feel their HR departments are extremely or very knowledgeable about those benefits, Aflac found.
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We see the market opportunity at about 2 times larger than for HR.
Almost every corporate HR guide has information about harassment and unacceptable behavior.
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If the HR professional had known about the Asian plans, she might have been able to delegate or even pass the headquarters assignment off to a colleague.
Kenexa, which provides HR management software, has about 2, 800 employees in 21 countries.
This creates a key opportunity for vendors but the issue remains on lack of awareness about social business in the field of HR.
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Using HR as talent spotters makes about as much sense as asking the florist for help filling out the roster on your basketball team.
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But at its core, HR has, almost secretly, been about communication and collaboration.
Until now, the systems HR has been offered have been more about recordkeeping and documenting the arduous annual or semi-annual review cycles than about speeding results and pushing boundaries.
This weekend I met another HR professional, and I spoke with her about her experience with these kinds of surveys.
In addition to employee self-service, enabling HR to transition to a more strategic role is also about simply streamlining as much as possible.
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It is likely such scrutiny would include auditing by persons who know very little about human capital management, yet would grow more suspicious the more HR had to explain itself.
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In the last two years National Public Radio has held six "Serendipity Days" in which about 50 employees from different departments, including digital, engineering, HR and news, volunteer to come together and think of new ideas and projects over a two-day period.
One is that many HR professionals grow up in a quasi-legal world where their job is all about ensuring the organization does not fall foul of labor laws.
Meghan is an author, speaker, blogger and mentor, passionate about the subjects of leadership, career, recruiting, workplace culture, community, branding, and social media in HR.
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