EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN A DIGITAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

 

Digitalization of work and the process of work environment is a decisive factor in increased long term employee wellbeing and organizational competitiveness (  Preda, Crisan, and Stanica ,2014).

 

Parry and Stefan (2014) define that digital technology and its sectors plays an important role in both human resource management (HRM), which has an indirect impact on employee life style and organizational behaviors. It focuses on the impact of these changes on HRM in terms of changes in the workforce, especially with respect to the use of technology in conducting HRM activities. According to Weldon (2018), the main challenges to becoming a digital organization are:

  • Lot of discussions pertaining to ownership and control of different processes
  • A change resisting culture
  • Need to know that digitalization not suitable for every part of the business
  • Handling talent gaps also poses challengers for workplace behavior
  • Complex and existing processes may not work under digital environment
  • Creating a digital platform is very difficult task and very costly, because creating a network ecosystem can be time consuming and costly. 

Many factors can affect the digital workplaces. Some of these are the lack of thought leadership or stakeholder involvement with in the organization, the inability to guarantee that the digitalization happening in workplace initiative is in line with the company strategy and/or company vision, worker resistance to change and a clear or definable return on investment (Melissa Gwaldiis, 2019).Furthermore you can eliminate these restrictions  and increase the adoption rate across your workplace n using the following process (Melissa Gwaldiis,2019).

  • Find how employees work and how digital workplaces can support their different roles
  • Decide which skills needed to support workplace transformation and identify gaps
  • Realize Internal champions, change leaders and define required roles of responsibilities
  • Improve and communicate yours cooperate vision and digital workplace strategy to define milestone for digital workplace initiatives
  • Empower employees to implement the company’s vision and strategy through cultural change and design thinking
  • Choose the correct technologies, tools and services to the organization 
  • Apply a monitoring solution to ensure that everything is doing what you intended and identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce cost
  • Develop appropriate development/development strategies and integrate technology as needed
  • Execute correct type of change management
  • Report the digital organizational success across the company/organization

                                                            
                                                                   

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Sources: Muhammad, S.M, Mohamed,F.A (2021) 


Figure 1.0 shows Conceptual framework showing the relationship between human resource digitization and employee performance.


References

 Melissa Gwaldiis,(2019). The Digital workplace : The key to going to your business.

 
Muhammad, S.M, Mohamed,F.A (2021): Human Resource digitalization and employee performance
 
Preda, A., Crisan, D,(2014). The impact of ICT on innovation performance in Europe. Case of Romania. Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management.
 
Parry, S.E. Dr. & Stefan, Prof. (2014). HRM in the digital age – digital changes and challenges of the HR profession.
 
Weldon, D. (2018). 6 top challenges to becoming a digital organization












Comments

  1. Gihan AmaratungaDecember 15, 2021 at 1:08 AM

    Hi Upeksha. Agree with you. Marr (2019) mentions that, using Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and Automation of tasks have hugely spread throughout different industries. In the current business scenario, it is important to recruit a workforce with frequently updating skills in order to get adjusted quickly with the changing technologies (Nazareno & Schiff, 2021).

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    1. Upeksha PathiranaDecember 22, 2021 at 7:45 AM

      Thanx for the comment Gihan. Information sharing , Innovation, creative collaboration , open interaction and flexibility: the role of technology in employee engagement is essentially limitless and will likely continue to evolve and expand (Nouha Blagui,2020).

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  2. Surangi PereraDecember 24, 2021 at 6:27 PM

    Well detailed blog, Further The workplace today is always connected and instantly accessible, There are exceptional ways in which communication and teamwork among employees occur. (D’Alessandro, 2008)

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    1. Upeksha PathiranaDecember 25, 2021 at 7:10 PM

      Thank you for the comment Surangi. Information sharing, innovation, creative collaboration, open interaction and flexibility: the role of technology in employee engagement is essentially limitless and will likely continue to evolve and expand (Nouha Blagui, 2020).

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  3. Deshani RodrigoDecember 25, 2021 at 11:14 PM

    Hi Upeksha, Well explained. It is important to continue the process of employee engagement where it is pandemic or not to drive towards to achieve the goal of the organization (Colbert, Yee and George, 2016). However there are some other simple facts that also be used for continuation as such real time appreciation, hosting virtual activities, provide toolkits to every employees considering the safety of the loved once, schedule more audio and video calls to build the relationship is also used in order to keep the momentum (Sahni, 2021).

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    1. Upeksha PathiranaDecember 26, 2021 at 1:28 AM

      Thank you for the comment. While technology itself cannot solely solve the problem of how to better engage with your employees and get the best outcomes, it nevertheless can help in significant ways (Nouha Blagul,2020).

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  4. Team BondingApril 22, 2022 at 4:33 AM

    Are you planning to arrange an Online Karaoke Party in Office? Here are a few creative and great party ideas for you to consider. It will be simple to keep it engaging and enjoyable.

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  5. Digital jyotiJune 21, 2022 at 1:59 AM

    Nice piece of information! We also bring the best indoor employee engagement activities to help team employees get to know one another. These indoor activities not only boost employee morale but also essential for their team building as well.

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