On October 11, 2016, Tom Haak of the HR Trend Institute gave a lecture on HR Trends for the students of the minor Managing International Teams and Organisations of the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. These are the slides he used.

1. HR Trends
11 oktober , 2016

4. Question: what do you think of this
product/ service?

5. My background in HR

6. 9 trend
areas
Short desciption
From hierarchy to network / from closed to open
The invasion of smart tech
Globalisation/ Localisation
From X to Y to Z: more generations in the workforce
Making fun is serious business
Purpose before pecunia
Increasing speed: fast eats slow
From Big Bang change programs to small experiments
From intuitive HR to evidence/ fact based HR
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7. From hierarchy to network

8. Kotter: Accelerate
8

9. Different talent sources
Internal talent
pool
Online
Intermediary
Alumni
Start-ups Self employed
Talent Sharing

10. Job crafting
10

11. Job Piling
11

12. From Individuals to
individuals + their
Network

17. 17

19. 19

20. Explore your potential

22. The invasion of smart tech

26. Hitachi Business Microscope
26

28. Joy & pride

35. Jimmy, Intel’s 3D
printed robot

38. Digital Intelligent Assistants

43. Globalisation/ Localisation

46. From X to Y to Z:
more generations in the workforce

47. 47

48. Individualisation
• Not: one size fits all
• Big Data enables individualisation
• HR using marketing techniques

49. Making fun is serious business

51. 51

52. 52

53. 53

54. 54

56. 56

59. Purpose before pecunia

63. At AMAZON
meetings
start with
30 minutes
silence

64. Zappos HQ in
downtown Las Vegas
“Casual Colision”
64

66. Sitting is the new smoking
Visser, Rietveld
& Rietveld

69. Increasing speed: fast eats slow

70. Recruitment proces often too slow
Profile Recruitment Selection
Offer Onboarding Start

72. Performance management trends
Process
• Faster feedback
• No more annual reviews
• No performance ratings
• Accenture, Deloitte, Nokia
Measurement
• How to measure
performance?
• How to predict top
performers?
Performance
Consulting

73. Performance: not a Bell curve,
but a Power Law distribution
Performance
Number of people

76. Would you hire this person again?

79. 79

80. 80

81. From Big Bang change programs
to small experiments

82. 82

83. Tribes/ Chapters/ Squads

85. From intuitive HR to
evidence/ fact based HR

87. 87

90. The Vitesse example

91. Accenture Sweden: Diversity

92. Some final remarks

93. Human nature does not change (so fast)
What are people looking for?
• Security
• A sense of belonging
• Clear goals
• Being heard
• Challenges
• Success
• Support from the top
• Attention
• ……..
• ……..

94. Success!
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95. Trend area More detail
From Hierachy to network
From closed to open organisatons; the borders of organisations become more blurry. More
people in the flexible workforce. Increasing importance of communities. Information travels
fast. Transparency key.
The invasion of smart tech
Big data. Data science. The internet of things. Robotisation. Self driving cars. Renewable
energy. Artificial intelligence (machine learning). Wearables. 3D printing. Smart offices.
Globalisation/ localisation
World more connected. Countertrend: consumers want local products. For some
professions (design, software) from local to global market. Urbanisation.
From X to Y to Z: more
generations in the workfoce
Different generations with different needs and expectations. Gen Y (millennials) will be a
substantial part of the wokforce. As people work longer more generations work together.
Diversity.
Making fun is serious business
Work and fun used to be separated. Today the expectaion is that work should be fun.
Gamification is entering work.
Purpose before pecunia
People are looking for organisations that do good in the world. Just Corporate Social
Responsibility is nog enough. Sustainability. Sharing economy. Diconnecting (information
overload).
Increasing speed: fast eats slow
Technology/ Internet enable new business models. Big organisations do not need many
people. New entrants can capture the market fast. Exponentiality.
From big bang change programs
to small experiments
Also fueled by technlogy. Experimenting has become easier. Learning by doing. Moving and
learning is better that standing still. A-B testing. Agility. Scrum. Traditional change
management too slow.
From intuitive HR to evidence/
fact based HR
HR/ people analytics. Big data entering HR. Not all new: scientific knowledge is often poorly
applied in organisations. HR can learn from marketing. HR: understand data + people.Version 2.0 | copyright HR Trend Institute