Some firms check social media postings before deciding which employee candidates to hire. Thus, they can exclude less suitable candidates.

You may want to look into e-leadership research. Some colleagues and I recently published a handbook chapter relating to e-leadership and education that touches on social media use, and there are a few references that relate to manegement in a more general sense that may be of interest:

Chapter E-Leadership and Teacher Development Using ICT

Organizations can use social media for developing and growing relationships with customers and influencers, engaging in real-time two-way interaction with people, including answering queries, publishing and distributing original content that demonstrates your expertise and for sharing curated links to relevant information that adds value to the lives of your customers.

Social media applications include sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Yelp, Flickr, Second Life, Yahoo groups, Wordpress and ZoomInfo present great opportunities for businesses in the areas of public relations, internal and external communications, recruiting, organizational learning and collaboration

Presence of an organization on ocial media has the following advantages

• Facilitates open communication, leading to enhanced information discovery and delivery.
• Allows employees to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions and share links.
• Provides an opportunity to widen business contacts.
• Targets a wide audience, making it a useful and effective recruitment tool.
• Improves business reputation and client base with minimal use of advertising.
• Promotes diversity and inclusion. 
• Expands market research, implements marketing campaigns, delivers communications and directs interested people to specific websites.

http://www.shrm.org/templatestools/toolkits/pages/managingsocialmedia.aspx

http://www.business.vic.gov.au/marketing-sales-and-online/online-business-and-technology/social-media-for-business/using-social-media-to-boost-business

Some firms check social media postings before deciding which employee candidates to hire. Thus, they can exclude less suitable candidates.

In situation where we at Chennai are today, affected by floods, many displaced, many loss of life and properties.... social media (FB) is used most to inform others of the reality, seek help, provide help, update situations etc.,

Hotel GRT Offers help through FB

In situation where we at Chennai are today, affected by floods, many displaced, many loss of life and properties.... social media (FB) is used most to inform others of the reality, seek help, provide help, update situations etc.,

Hotel GRT Offers help through FB

Debi:

Perhaps, social media can be used to help to promote the organization's Employee of the Month campaign by having others vote thru social media for the employee, then have others share their experiences of that employee during the month of celebration. Hopefully, other employees would be motivated by the outstanding employee's traits, which usually include punctuality, responsibility, and integrity that are all needed for flow and continuity within the organization. I've also included a link to related studies in RG.

Many thanks,

Debra

https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Social+media+for+people+management&search-abstract=&search=Search

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Here are 7 Ways Social Media Can Make You More Productive:

http://timemanagementninja.com/2013/01/7-ways-social-media-can-make-you-more-productive/

Although I do not have accounts in social media such as FB & Twitter so far, but I saw their good contribution last week. Our students are generally "addicted" to these social media and when I needed to announce few things , I contacted the students' representatives who, in turn, posted these announcements. I was surprised that all the concerned students knew these things. I think that this has served the interests of students at our university (i.e. there was better management helped by social media). Advertisements at boards in the campus are too many so the students may not read what target them specifically.

Leading enterprises are increasingly turning to enterprise social networking tools like SharePoint 2013, NewsGator, Office 365 and Yammer. The organizations  continue to become flatter, so social networks may create bottom-up organization that makes top down business goals successful. Further more, social networks may be beneficial to amplify social business practices and represent the future of enterprise knowledge management, communication, and collaboration, though some are concerned about their security and privacy.

Some hints are given in the following site:

https://blog.imason.com/4-ways-enterprise-social-networks-can-transform-your-organization/

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Here are 10 benefits of social media for business

1. Social media is an easy way to learn about your audience.

2. Social media helps target audiences more effectively.

3. Social media helps find new customers and expand your audience.

4. Social media allows you to receive instant feedback from your customers’ perspective.

5. Improve market intelligence and get ahead of your competitors with social media.

6. Social media can help increase website traffic and search ranking.

7. Share content easier and faster with social media.

8. Social media helps generate leads for one third of the cost.

9. Create meaningful relationships with customers through social media.

10. Social media lets you increase brand awareness and reach with little to no budget."....

Please, see the link for details:

http://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-for-business/

Social media is an avenue to express one's ideas, feelings, understanding of situations and interacting with number of people at a time. Many companies today scan through the profile and interactions of a person on social media to understand the personality and psyche of the person before hiring. Social media is now useful in all aspects of management. Human resource management requires the understanding of pulse and psyche of the people. social media has become a tool for this purpose.

Dear Debi. Because "People are dying for the metal". This aria Mephistopheles Gounod's "Faust." Hence the media because of the profit will inevitably attract psychologists, managers to "brainwash" readers. Of course, through the media imposed from childhood certain stereotypes, dominant ... People are transformed into a kind of social robots. So I do not read newspapers and magazines from a young age. News cursory look through the Internet and critical (ie, perceive the contrary said).

Social Media is very helpful in HRIS, communication, assigning work, hiring, training, reporting, etc.

Dear Debi et all,

..and social media is what we are doing here in RG..sharing knowledge, communication, that will help us to decide better in this global world.

Have a nice time

Helena

knowledge sharing

Good article from Harvard Business Reveiw

The best companies are building up their social media capabilities to capture value by focusing on doing two things well: building a social media CRM to increase relevance and focusing on complete customer care.

The most successful social media interactions are personal, genuine, and relevant. To scale that connectivity requires integrating social media data into your CRM system. Some retailers have been able to increase sales conversions 10-15% by tailoring their social media content based on customers’ previous purchases, according to McKinsey research.

Gather and track the right information. Social media is in effect a massive focus group that can provide intelligence about brand perception, services, competitors, and potentially disruptive trends.

https://hbr.org/2015/07/your-company-should-be-helping-customers-on-social

I ma not sure that social media can help manage the people within the organization in any way since most companies actually find social media used by their employees to be a problem rather than help. Thus if employees are discouraged from the use of social medial it cannot help manage the people. Now social media CAN help the people to advertise company products and services very successfully but by its nature, social media is open to all (except private closed groups on Facebook) and so internal corporate affairs cannot be discussed online. It is not secure. 

Dear Colleagues,

Good day,

"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."

                                               -----   Gary Vaynerchuk

For the use of social media to be of benefit within an organisation it is important to understand what is the fundamental aim of going down this particular path.

One good article on this topic talks about the importance of building emotional capital and how this then drives improved communication (& engagement)-

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-key-to-social-media-success-within-organizations/

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

"Social media can play a vital role in how a company goes about its change management decisions – it can be an important “vehicle” to facilitate better and faster change management:

• Internal social media can help flatten the organization and drive transparent dialogue across levels, functions, and geographies
• Internal social networks help companies engage people in defining the go-forward plan by asking for smart ideas that can be put to use to support the transformation
• Transitions often require a corresponding change in employee behavior, whether it’s adopting a new set of values as part of a cultural evolution or working differently to support a new leader’s vision for the company. Social media and internal apps offer leaders and employees a way to recognize and reward each other"..... 

Please, see the link for more details.....

http://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/change-management/top-10-ways-social-media-can-facilitate-change-management/

Dear colleagues,  First of all, thanks a lot for your very insightful answers; they would be of great help in articulating issues. When I used the words "in better people management," Brenda thought that social media can not help in people mgt. But  what I meant was in terms of performing different functions of management in relation to people. That would include people-mgt planning, organization of recruiting people, developing people, motivating people, rewarding people and assessing performance of people. Organizations are heavily relying on social media in many of these spheres, but more on some than others. So the idea was to know all possibilities in this regard.

I think so but excessive is bad one. There is no qualitative to on it

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Good question, Dear Debi. The potential looks in fact enormous. However a culture of education and responsibility is required. Information, if duly filtered, only can be good, and the internet and social media is a much fast path for access of information and communication. Nevertheless, a biased person or a bad manager with bad practices will not become better just because can access to more information and can communicate faster.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Please, see ...

Very interesting Hussain: it is most importatn what we think you are than what you really are, ...and this is the truth.

Have a nice New year

Helena

Dear colleagues, okay, I have gotten contact with you and before and I have written, where I mentioned above. Our people say: time is money! ... While social media sometimes is the trick of virtual living, it is to spend (lose) the time when not assess it properly. Social media, as a virtual living often has its advantages helping the poeple management and often has its disadvantages that does not help the people managment. 

Advantages and disadvantages of using social media

Too many businesses enter into social media because it's 'the done thing' - they feel they should have a presence purely because their competitors do. There are a number of real benefits to getting involved with social media, provided it is properly planned and executed.

Business advantages of effective social media use include:

compelling and relevant content will grab the attention of potential customers and increase brand visibility

you can respond almost instantly to industry developments and become heard in your field

it can be much cheaper than traditional advertising and promotional activities

social content can indirectly boost links to website content by appearing in universal search results, improving search traffic and online sales

you can deliver improved customer service and respond effectively to feedback

customers can find you through new channels, generating more leads

increased loyalty and advocacy from the customers you've connected with

Disadvantages include:

you will need to commit resources to managing your social media presence, responding to feedback and producing new content

it can be difficult to quantify the return on investment and the value of one channel over another

ineffective use - for example, using the network to push for sales without engaging with customers, or failing to respond to negative feedback - may damage your reputation

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Please, let us not forget that above all social medias work for profit, for money and serves retail, notwithstanding that supposedly rumored that works for the majority, as I said before. This is the reality so far, based on data of social objectively verifiable indicators.

My personal opinion, but it is the temporary: Social media alone or together is/are often in the same time is/are a necessary evil and / or often a good necessary, in support of sustainable socio-economic development and protection of the environment, in any place or places, where to develop their activity in different types with different functions to separate or mixed. The time has come to be, but controls must be strengthened, the monitoring carried out, ranging from the identification of owners and customers, as they in lot of cases is not known. Let us hope to work better with / in social media!