Employee Experience and HR Innovation: Redefining Human Resource Management through Design Thinking and Human-Centered Practices

Abstract

Employee Experience (EX) has emerged as the modern HR management model which converts procedural organizations into adaptive employee-focused operating systems (Maylett & Wride, 2017; Morgan, 2017). Through the convergence of human-centered innovation with design thinking the HR context transforms its operations by making employee needs and expectations and health the main factor in workplace strategy development (Chayutsahakij, 2000; Chilana et al., 2015). Employee lifecycle management received minimal attention from HR institutions since they focused solely on payroll administration and compliance enforcement throughout many years (Ferris et al., 1999; Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013). Employees of today need important work opportunities together with flexible options and mental safety while requiring easy performance of digital tasks (Guest, 1997; Harley et al., 2007). Organizations focusing on EX deliver tangible results through extended staff loyalty as well as better production levels together with brand enhancement (Soliman & Spooner, 2000; Wood, 1999). This research analyzes EX features structurally while showing implementation methods which use HR innovation and technology-based workplace designs (Kabene et al., 2006; Ståhlbröst, 2006). The HR professional development requires design thinking to help transition from policy administrators to experience architects according to both Chayutsahakij (2000) and Maglio et al. (2015). The paper examines organizational barriers to EX adoption which include resistance from leaders and departmental separation and difficulties in monitoring experiential results (Longwe et al., 2015; Roald & Edgren, 2001). EX development brings together AI capabilities for customized operations and recursive feedback methods and flexible work systems (Morgan, 2017; Rothe et al., 2015). Findings show that EX functions as a fundamental organizational necessity that surpasses basic HR functions because it drives competitive market success and recruitment of skilled talent (Maylett & Wride, 2017; Thompson, 1993).

Country : USA

1 Nazia Tasleem

  1. State University of New York, Buffalo, Tampa, Florida, USA

IRJIET, Volume 2, Issue 9, November 2018 pp. 32-43

doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2018.209007

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