The Challenges of Human Resource Management
7 The Challenges of Human Resource Management
Organizations that do not put their emphasis on attracting and retaining talents may find themselves in dire consequences, as their competitors may be outplaying them in the strategic employment of their human resources.
With the increase in competition, locally or globally, organizations must become more adaptable, resilient, agile, and customer-focused to succeed. And within this change in environment, the HR professional has to evolve to become a strategic partner, an employee sponsor or advocate, and a change mentor within the organization. In order to succeed, HR must be a business driven function with a thorough understanding of the organizations big picture and be able to influence key decisions and policies. In general, the focus of todays HR Manager is on strategic personnel retention and talents development. HR professionals will be coaches, counselors, mentors, and succession planners to help motivate organizations members and their loyalty. The HR manager will also promote and fight for values, ethics, beliefs, and spirituality within their organizations, especially in the management of workplace diversity.
This paper will highlight on how a HR manager can meet the challenges of workplace diversity, how to motivate employees through gain-sharing and executive information system through proper planning, organizing, leading and controlling their human resources.
7.1 Workplace Diversity
According to Thomas (1992), dimensions of workplace diversity include, but are not limited to: age, ethnicity, ancestry, gender, physical abilities/qualities, race, sexual orientation, educational background, geographic location, income, marital status, military experience, religious beliefs, parental status, and work experience.
7.2 The Challenges of Workplace Diversity
The future success of any organizations relies on
the ability to manage a diverse body of talent that can bring innovative ideas,
perspectives and views to their work. The challenge and problems faced of
workplace diversity can be turned into a strategic organizational asset if an
organization is able to capitalize on this melting pot of diverse talents. With
the mixture of talents of diverse cultural backgrounds, genders, ages and
lifestyles, an organization can respond to business opportunities more rapidly
and creatively, especially in the global arena (Cox, 1993), which must be one
of the important organizational goals to be attained. More importantly, if the
organizational environment does not support diversity broadly, one risks losing
talent to competitors.
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ReplyDeleteLakmal,Do you think current Sri Lankan industries have enough capable to face these challenges
ReplyDeleteYes Buddima,With the development of the modern technology and the advancement of the young generation's knowledge,I believe that the industries are capable of facing the challenges.So it will be needed to recruit the right people to the right job.
DeleteDo you believe HR people really want to mitigate these challenges..?
ReplyDeleteDear Roshan,I don't think that the HR people want to mitigate these challenges as it harms the entire process of the organization.Anyhow they have to solve the problems in order to achieve the short and long-term goals and objectives.
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