Challenges facing human resources

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25 April 2009

Challenges Facing Human Resources

Introduction

Under the pressure of the current economic crisis and in the light of the growing globalization trends , organizations and their human resources are increasingly concerned about the challenges they have to face in the process of their organizational performance . The changing demographics , outsourcing , the deteriorating quality of workforce and the shifts in motivation and learning - all these necessarily result in the broader contextual changes , to which HR professionals need to adjust . Here

, issues of diversity and technological change seem to have produced the major impacts on the quality and structure of the major HRM strategies . As a result , whether organizations are prepared to tackling with these complexities depends on their ability to promote flexibility of their HR approaches and to work in ways that would help employees and HR professionals timely adjust to the changeable organizational environments

To begin with , diversity can be defined as the state of being diverse , that is , different , unlike various . Diversity in today 's society encompasses culture , gender , nationality , sexual orientation physical abilities , social class , age , socioeconomic status , and religion (Sadri Tran 227 . It appears that in the light of the growing globalization trends , weaker immigration restrictions , increased outsourcing opportunities and blurred cultural barriers , diversity is becoming the major challenge organizations face on their way to achieving strategic organizational objectives . It should be noted , that the issue of workforce diversity is not new to organizations , but for numerous reasons small...