A Consideration of Human Resource Management future: It’s time to unleash HR 's full potential
Introduction
Human Resource Management involves the recruitment and management of the people who work in an organization. The focus of Human Resource Management is to attract, select, train, motivate and compensate employees, while making sure that they comply with employment and labor laws. In the stressful environment of today 's businesses, organizations and managers are faced with numerous challenges. Technological change and innovation in product on one hand and the management complexity, on the other hand, make managers rely on human capital. Due to the changing business environment, human resource management also does undeniably need to change to respond to changes. The future is unpredictable and difficult to determine. As a result, the flexibility and business knowledge towards responding to this uncertainty is important. Today, the strategic challenges in the field of human resources are not limited only to administrative matters, but at the same time attention should be given to the four criteria:
1) Human resources development infrastructure should be maintained,
2) Employees` commitment should be engineered,
3) Human resource professionals are strategic partners of the organizations and,
4) HR professionals as internal consultants handle their change management.
Literature Review
Researchers and theorists have different views about what will happen to human resource function in future. Most research has been done on topics of technology, intellectual capital, and government regulation, workforce demographic changes, shrinking organizations, international management and globalization. It is evident that all the issues mentioned play a very important role in human resource management over the coming decades, and some are clearly more effective than others, but very broad issues like the Future of human resource
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