Employee Development Using Social Media Tools

Research Paper (postgraduate) , 2009 , 14 Pages , Grade: 1,5

Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous

This assignment summarizes the most important aspects of the topic employee devel-opment within the human resource management area, and shows whether the task employee development can be improved when performed with the support of social media tools. Social media tools are interactive, often web based tools which help individual employees to manage their knowledge, connect with each other, and communicate. This assignment will show the immensely positive impact of social media tools in specifically employee development and training processes.

Content

1 Definitions
1.1 Applied Terminology

2 Social Media
2.1 Definition
2.2 History
2.3 The Term Social Web
2.4 The Term Wiki
2.5 Collective Intelligence

3 Employee Development
3.1 Training
3.2 Education
3.3 Development
3.4 Ramp-up

4 Employee Development using Social Media Tools
4.1 Training using Wiki based Knowledge Management
4.1.1 Why Knowledge Management
4.1.2 Knowledge Management using Wikis
4.1.3 Reasoning
4.2 Development using Social Webs
4.2.1 Networking as a Key Attribute
4.2.2 Networking for Career Boosts
4.2.3 Networking using a Social Web
4.2.4 Reasoning

5 Issues and Limitations
5.1 Social Web Tools
5.2 Knowledge Management Tools
5.3 Summary

6 Appendix - Sources:

• College: The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
• Grade: 1,5
• Author: Dominik Heinz (Author)
• Publication Year: 2009
• Pages: 14
• Catalog Number: V190433
• ISBN (eBook): 9783656148654
• ISBN (Book): 9783656149095
• Language: English
• Tags: employee, development, using, social, media, tools