The Business Problem

Your Human Resources department manages your most valued assets—the people who work for you and collectively contribute to achieving your business objectives.  Rising costs, increased competition and the time required to hire and train new talent have made retaining your top performers a growing challenge. Effective human resources management increases employee morale and overall productivity. Engaged, productive employees are essential to any company that wants to outperform its competition.

The IGLOO Software Solution

Using IGLOO to create a corporate social network for Human Resources is a cost effective way for you to
acquire the best talent, improve corporate communications and drive employee engagement and
well being. Within a corporate social network, you can securely coordinate, manage and monitor employee processes, interactions and activities, including:

• Expertise location and record of talent
• Recruitment—job descriptions, resumes and internal postings
• Hiring process
• Employee orientation
• Policies and procedures—NDA’s, confidentiality agreements, time-off request forms, etc.
• Benefits plans–enrollment form, insurance claims form (health and dental)
• Performance Reviews
• Best practices
• Staff Directory 
• Calendar of holidays, corporate events, birthdays, and more

Manage and Retain Talent

Your employees can be organized into specific groups, teams and roles which mirror your current organizational chart. Based on their specific role, employees in your organization can create and update their own professional profile, outlining specific knowledge, skills and expertise related to their work. Using the Member Directory, staff can quickly and easily find the experts with the skill sets they need, discover new team members in other locations and bookmark team members as peers and knowledge resources—all from a private LinkedIn-like social directory. By clicking on a profile, managers can view the most recent contributions made by an employee.

Manage Your Corporate Knowledge

Use IGLOO’s powerful content management functionality to create a centralized and secure HR repository, where staff members have access to documentation on the various areas covered by Human Resources including: FAQs, Benefits, Personnel Policies, Organizational Charts, Notices and other information that pertains to Human Resources.

All information within your HR corporate social network can be searched, bookmarked, commented on,
downloaded, tagged, edited, emailed, rated, shared and subscribed to (email or RSS) by any authorized
person. Employees can set notifications and be sent alerts when relevant information—such as a claims form—changes. New employees can access an orientation folder that contains everything they need— parking policies, phone support, system configuration, contacts—everything they need to ramp up as quickly as possible.

Blogs and forums are highly effective communications tools to push information to all employees, including new policies, practices and corporate news. Employees can be encouraged to create their own blog on a specific topic and/or comment and pose questions to other bloggers within your organization—a great way to share ideas, engage employees and build staff morale.

Integrated Calendar functionality can be added to coordinate, organize and track a yearly calendar of corporate events and holidays. Employees can subscribe to the calendar and receive email updates (instantly, daily, weekly or monthly) when new events are added.

Helpful Links to recruiting sites, relevant organizations and more can be added to the HR network.

Corporate data is protected and monitored by the system, preventing knowledge leakage. The transparency of the system reveals who has completed specific activities to protect against litigation: 

• Regulatory compliance
• Sarbanes Oxley
• Health & Safety
• Fraud
• Intellectual property
• Copyright infringement
• Patent claims 
  
  View our presentation: Corporate Social Networking for Human Resources