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Impact of Digitalization on Employees and HRM Responsibility

 



What is Digitization at the Workplace?

Digitalization as the path in which numerous spaces of social life are rebuilt around digital correspondence and media frameworks.

What would be the approach from employees’ perspective?

While directors realize that representatives won't be driven by mysterious powers encouraging them to receive new computerized activities, they frequently don't give the kind of time, support, and inspiration to embrace that they know would be vital in different settings. Rather, organizations frequently invest significant time, cash, and vitality executing advanced stages, expecting that the estimation of these computerized apparatuses will turn out to be so obvious to representatives that they will be attracted normally to them to play out their work. Organizations that essentially anticipate that workers will receive by and large accentuate the mechanical side of advanced usage and regularly execute that usage well, yet then neglect to go with the new computerized foundation with the authoritative change administration activities required. 

How does Digitalization is being captivated by Organizations?

Not exclusively do representatives should be prepared to utilize new computerized apparatuses, yet they likewise should be offered time to make sense of how to synchronize these tools into their work. In examine led with Lynn Wu of Wharton, we found that reception of another computerized stage really prevented representative execution for the initial couple of months after appropriation. It was simply after around a half year of utilization that associations watched huge execution enhancements.
Adroit associations have perceived that bringing innovation into the working environment isn't all about equipment or programming but it's about wetware, otherwise called individuals. On the off chance that you need to be the sort of deft business that can benefit as much as possible from progressive influxes of tech development, you require people who can adjust to change.

That implies preparing every individual in your venture with the aptitudes and outlook that will help them effectively adjust at whatever point you present new instruments like Slack, Base-camp, or even Google Drive into your work environment. In any case, what precisely are these computerized abilities? They might be more natural and low-tech than you might suspect. 

How does Digitalization is impacting Employees

Cultivating digital culture may create employee redundancy at workplace due to process automation. It makes the scarcity among employees whilst imposing threat on employee retention. It’s important to identify the adoption of Digitalization in correct manner before it disrupt the workplace by tarnishing organization goals.

HRM to recognize the existing talent and ensure to develop the employees who need to be develop with well executed plan. Drive awareness campaigns to educate employees on Digitalization to avoid misunderstanding and to secure employee retention.  

Reference List;

Alexandra Samuel (2020) The Soft Skills of Great Digital Organizations [online]. Available at https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-soft-skills-of-great-digital-organizations. Accessed on 30th December 2020.  

Lynn Wu, Gerald C. Kane (2020) Network-biased Technical Change: How Social Media Tools Disproportionately Affect Employee Performance [online]. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2433113. Accessed on 30th December 2020.

Margaret Rouse (2007) digitalization [online]. Available at http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digitization. Accessed on 30th December 2020.

Comments

  1. Anushka JayasekaraJanuary 28, 2021 at 6:20 AM

    Interesting article. Thanks you author for sharing.

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    1. Amila AbeyrathnaJanuary 30, 2021 at 9:37 AM

      Thank you..Everything is changing, and new economic paradigms and scenarios are cropping up. For example, new trends are emerging on the job market, such as on-demand work and smart working. These trends require different skills and abilities of companies, HR professionals and jobseekers wishing to survive in an increasingly competitive market

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  2. Ganga PathirajaJanuary 30, 2021 at 6:23 AM

    Digitalization in the workplace can have positive effects on personnel productivity. Where as in contrast, it also has negative impacts on culture and security issues if not managed well.

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    1. Amila AbeyrathnaJanuary 30, 2021 at 10:12 AM

      Yes, but the new digital world of work is further fueling changes. We have to have transform new digital world. If now we cant survive with the world. For example in Banking industry they introducing number of tools to enhance they productivity (ATM, CDM, CRM, Internet banking, Mobile banking, online banking solutions, virtual banking, etc..) not only but also they improve their security systems (introducing new security features finger prints, eye recognition system,etc..) like and change customer attitudes parallel these changes. if not they will fail.

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  3. Kavindi Nadeera 20039081January 30, 2021 at 9:02 PM

    Digitalization of HRM process unable to remote many routine tasks, to reduce the risk of human error and empower experts to solve important issues enabling them to use their knowledge and skills more effectively in solving business problems

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  4. ISHANI19030135February 2, 2021 at 11:07 AM

    Cultivating digital culture may create employee redundancy at workplace due to process automation. It makes the scarcity among employees whilst imposing threat on employee retention.

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  5. ISHANI19030135February 3, 2021 at 1:26 AM

    very useful article

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