HR Technology

These two videos highlight various aspects of the uses of gamification that may be applicable to HR leaders.

Epic ELearning's Director of Learning Imogen Casebourne and Barclaycard's eLearning Manager Sam Taylor explore the theory behind a new mobile learning game currently in development.

Benefit portals and websites now include a variety of online tools to help employees shape up.

HR leaders are about to be deluged with gimmicks that try to motivate employees by using fake money, fake status and fake accomplishment. There may be important lessons to be found in game mechanics, but it's not an idea that will be useful in most places.

This article accompanies Let's Play!

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While predicting the future of technology is never easy, the harder part of that process is actually predicting how technology will change behavior.

Vic Buzachero's business-centered approach to human capital management and support of metrics and accountability at Scripps Health put him heads above others who are still doing HR the old way.

We are at the tail end of an era that has focused almost entirely on the innovation of products and services, and we are at the beginning of a new era that focuses on the innovation of what I like to call "behavioral business models."

Gabe Zichermann, chair of the Gamification Summit where top thought leaders in the industry gather to share knowledge and insight, talks about gamification for HR and beyond.

Zichermann is also an author, public speaker and entrepreneur whose best-selling book "Gamification by Design" looks at the technical and architectural considerations for designing engagement using games concepts.

This article accompanies Let's Play!

Increasingly, HR is using elements of game playing to motivate employees and change their attitudes about training.

Cloud Computing, social-enterprise tools, analytics and mobile solutions are just a few of the topics to be explored at 15th Annual HR Technology® Conference & Exposition, which will be held Oct. 8 to Oct. 10 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

That's what the HR department should have done at Aviva Investors when it accidentally fired more than 1,300 employees. Yikes!

Just like the baseball owners of years past, many human resource professionals and line managers are making mistakes in assembling their teams -- by misvaluing their employees. Now, more than ever, a holistic approach is needed to ensure that the right data is being selected, tracked, reported on, compared and used to improve talent management.

Most employers are not ready to take advantage of an anticipated surge in recruiting. Their career websites are not enticing or easy to use. And their employee value propositions are murky.

Employers continue to look for guidance on issues related to the evolving use of social media by employees. Creating an appropriate policy remains difficult, but the authors offer some expert advice that may help.

Not everyone is convinced that the cloud is where the future of technology lies. Possible risks include a vendor's financial stability and potential security issues involved with having sensitive company data residing on outside servers.