{"id":7010,"date":"2019-07-29T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:10:54","slug":"hr-trends-for-small-and-midsized-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/hr-trends-for-small-and-midsized-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"7 HR Trends for Small and Midsized Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hrNearly 20,000 HR professionals attended this year\u2019s annual SHRM conference<\/a> in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme for the conference was \u201cCreating Better Workplaces.\u201d The sessions themselves covered a range of topics across the HR landscape. A lot of important work is being done to improve HR departments and workplaces around the world. People are eager to share their ideas and learn from those around them. Out of many discussions came these seven HR trends for small and midsized businesses.<\/p>\n

1. Technology<\/h3>\n

Employers are facing exponential changes in technology, and many of them are underusing the technology they have. Technology can free up a lot of HR\u2019s time<\/a> for other meaningful activities and enable employers to stand above the crowd, but only if it\u2019s used effectively. Organizations that don\u2019t adapt to technological changes risk wasting valuable resources and spending significantly more money on tasks that their competitors do on the cheap.<\/p>\n

2. Distrust and Drama<\/h3>\n

Distrust and drama are a death sentence to collaboration and communication and will cause innovation and creativity to dry up. Fortunately for businesses of all sizes, you don\u2019t need a huge budget or costly program to counter distrust and drama in the workplace. In their respective sessions, Cy Wakeman and Sarah Noll Wilson each showed attendees how self-reflection, shared accountability, and setting others up for success alleviate the stressors that bring us down, cause us to distrust one another, and clog up our day with unnecessary drama. People are the hardest part of work, Bren\u00e9 Brown noted in her keynote, but people are all we have.<\/p>\n

3. Employee Expectations<\/h3>\n

Employees, especially younger ones, expect more from their employers. They want to work for mission-driven people who understand their needs and the needs of society. In fact, they expect business leaders to help right the wrongs in society and take a public stand against problems like pay inequality, extreme poverty, and unconscious bias. For these employees, compliance isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

4. Manager Expectations<\/h3>\n

Expectations are also changing for managers, who are more and more expected to be attentive. The best managers today understand human psychology. They\u2019re able to read emotional cues and spot signs of stress<\/a>. And they have the people skills to help employees navigate strong emotions and uncertain situations.<\/p>\n

5. Company Branding<\/h3>\n

Multiple speakers recommended that HR and Marketing departments should work together to improve their company\u2019s employer brand\u2014the image that prospective employees have of the company. Every employer has a brand. It\u2019s the internal culture of the organization<\/a> as seen from outside the organization. Job postings, social media activity, and online employee reviews each shape the employer brand, and that brand plays a big role in every organization\u2019s recruitment efforts.<\/p>\n

6. Harassment Prevention<\/h3>\n

Sexual harassment prevention<\/a> efforts took on greater urgency following the #MeToo movement, and now companies are looking to improve and expand their harassment prevention efforts to combat other forms of unwelcome conduct that\u2019s based on a protected class.<\/p>\n

7. Collaboration<\/h3>\n

There\u2019s an exciting, collaborative spirit in the HR world. You could feel it in the sessions, witness it in the hallway conversations, see it on full display in the expo hall, and follow it in all the social media discussions. Recruiters, specialists, generalists, directors, and other HR professionals want to connect, learn, and grow together.<\/p>\n

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