Does it scare you a little to know that according to a survey by Nucleus Research, an IT research company, 77% of workers who have a Facebook account use it during work hours, with 87% saying they had no clear business reason for using the site? Not sure what to do about it? Technology for HR will explain the benefits and drawbacks of Facebook in the workplace and give you options for dealing with it. And it doesn’t stop with Facebook . . .

Technology for HR is for intelligent people who are probably unfamiliar with most workplace technologies but are eager to learn more about them and how they work. It is written to help you understand technology without bombarding you without a whole lot of technical jargon.

In using this book, you’ll see that it brings the best of the instructional book elements under one umbrella. It combines the show me how it’s done approach with the how does this apply to HR approach in order to give you straightforward answers about technology’s intersection with the world of HR.

Technology for HR eases you into the world of technology by introducing various tools, how they work, how your employees are using them, and how you can make them work for you, including:

• e-mail;
• intranet;
• mobile technology;
• blogs;
• microblogs;
• social networks;
• wikis;
• online videos and podcasts; and
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

Next, Technology for HR shows you how to use those tools to:

• recruit and hire employees;
• retain and engage employees;
• increase productivity; and
• train employees.

Afraid that even after you learn all these great ways to use technology that you might not be able to make the sale to the C-Suite? Technology for HR walks you through that as well as offering guidance on communicating with your IT department.

Finally, Technology for HR takes and in-depth look at the legal issues and challenges associated with using technology in the workplace, paying special attention to electronic data issue and how to build strong technology-related policies.

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