Trends and Challenges in Human Resources
Trends and Challenges in Human Resources
Human resources (HR) departments face many existing and future challenges when working with employees such as diversity issues, turnover, health and safety, and benefits. These challenges will change as employees become more skillful and want more out of the company they work for to make them satisfied in the areas of pay and benefits. In this paper, reviewed will be the impact on HR regarding existing and future trends, existing and future challenges, advantages of turnover, performance appraisals, and safety and health in the workplace.
Existing trends in HR
Some of the major trends affecting human resource management today are the modern labor force, organizational strategy, growth, technology, and the changing nature of employment relationships. Companies struggle to determine who will participate in the workforce of the future. This can be done by examining the aging workforce, the diverse workforce, and the skill deficiencies of the workforce. Trends in organizational strategy include putting in the effort to maintain high-performance work systems that will develop changes in the organization’s size and structure. Today, human resource management has stepped up to play an important role in helping organizations. Human resource management’s goal is to gain and keep an advantage over competitors by simply developing into high-performance work systems. “Among the trends that are occurring in today’s high-performance work systems are reliance on knowledge workers; empowerment of employees to make decisions; and the use of teamwork (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhert, & Wright, 2003, p. 36).”
More than ever traditional managers are seeing that human resource management is playing a more central role rather than just an administrative function. Managers are looking at human resource management as a way to support a company’s strategy by helping to plan for meeting broad goals including profitability, quality and market
Human resources (HR) departments face many existing and future challenges when working with employees such as diversity issues, turnover, health and safety, and benefits. These challenges will change as employees become more skillful and want more out of the company they work for to make them satisfied in the areas of pay and benefits. In this paper, reviewed will be the impact on HR regarding existing and future trends, existing and future challenges, advantages of turnover, performance appraisals, and safety and health in the workplace.
Existing trends in HR
Some of the major trends affecting human resource management today are the modern labor force, organizational strategy, growth, technology, and the changing nature of employment relationships. Companies struggle to determine who will participate in the workforce of the future. This can be done by examining the aging workforce, the diverse workforce, and the skill deficiencies of the workforce. Trends in organizational strategy include putting in the effort to maintain high-performance work systems that will develop changes in the organization’s size and structure. Today, human resource management has stepped up to play an important role in helping organizations. Human resource management’s goal is to gain and keep an advantage over competitors by simply developing into high-performance work systems. “Among the trends that are occurring in today’s high-performance work systems are reliance on knowledge workers; empowerment of employees to make decisions; and the use of teamwork (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhert, & Wright, 2003, p. 36).”
More than ever traditional managers are seeing that human resource management is playing a more central role rather than just an administrative function. Managers are looking at human resource management as a way to support a company’s strategy by helping to plan for meeting broad goals including profitability, quality and market
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