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Challenges of Human Resource Management
Dr. Kulbir Singh
Associate Professor, Deptt. Of Commerce
C R Kisan College, Jind(Haryana)
Abstract:
In the recent years ,significant changes have been taken place in the economic, social,
technological and political environment of business in india as well as world place. This paper
analysis the emerging challenges in the field of HRM. The great challenge of HRM is to attract
,retain and nurture talented employees. These changes can not be ignored by the organizations,
rather the human resource manager have to plan and implement a innovative mechanism, such as
performance appraisal ,training etc. for human resources to prepare them to accept the emerging
challenges and also for developing the skills and competencies in human resources.
Human resource management is concerned with the human resources in an organization. When
individuals come to a work place , they come with not only technical skills ,knowledge
,experience etc. but also with their feelings ,perception, desires ,motives, attitude, values etc.
Today, the role of HR has widen up because of globalization and removal of line of alignment
between two countries which has facilitated a person to do job in other country. So HR managers
will have to act as change agents or change facilitators. They will have to make effective use of
HRD mechanism and will have to build up ‘ learning organizations ‘ for greater organizational
effectiveness.
Literature review
The world federation of personnel mgt
association (WFPMA,2009) survey
pointed out the most important top 10 HR
challenges are leadership development ,
organizational effectiveness, change mgt.
,compensation, health and safety, staff
retention , learning and development ,
succession planning, staffing, recruitment
and skill labour .
Decenzo and robins (2001) Discussed the
most important challenges of HRM are
technology ,e-commerce ,workforce
diversity, globalization and ethical
consideration of the org which may directly
or indirectly affect the organization .
Objectives of the study:
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To study the HR issues and
challenges of present business
scenario.
To find out the most influencing
human resource management
challenges.
Methodology: The study is secondary in
nature and the content of the research paper
has been collected through various sources
as, journals, books and various website from
the internet.
Challenges of HRM
These challenges can be studied as follows:
Globalization Movement:
globalization is the tendency of the
organizations to extend their sales or
business to new markets at world
level and for business everywhere.
personnel managers are required to
play a challenging role as to capture
the ability to exploit profitable
opportunities, thereby, to maximize
its return on investment in this new
worldwide competitive market. To
this effect , new globalized firms are
reorganizing their operations and
refocusing their energies around
their crucial areas of competency .
for example: Infosys ,NIIT ,
Ranbaxy ,Dr. laboratories have
created such global operations long
back to explore overseas markets
and exploit available profitable
opportunities.
Change In legal environment:
There are also many changes have
been taken in the legal framework of
the industrial policy. Human
resource manger should keep an eye
side by side to make necessary
adjustments within the organization
so that effective utilization of human
resources can be achieved. The
managers also have to anticipate the
changes and prepare the
organization to face the changes
without any interruption in the
functioning.
Change In Political Environment:
Changes in political and legal
environment means changes in
political parties and rules regulation
due to which new laws are
introduced by the new parties and
you have to follow all laws while
doing business. Government
interferes in the business to
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safeguard the interest of the
workers, consumers and the public
at large. Government participation
in trade ,commerce and industry
poses many challenges before the
management.It is the responsibility
of Human Resource manager to
anticipate the changes and prepare
organization to face them without
any breakdown in its normal
functioning
Change In Social Environment:
Now a days the society is becoming
very demanding. All the goods and
services are provided according to
the expectations of the consumers.
Social impacts have to be carefully
evaluated before undertaking any
action programme by the business so
that society,s needs can be fulfilled.
Change In Technological
Environment: Today, with the
technological advancement,
automation and computerization are
taking place which are making the
jobs very complicated which
requires the skilled labour. No one
can survive with old technology in
this competitive environment. So it
is the duty of HR managers to
introduce employees with new
technology by providing training
and also by developing new
programmes. The development of
executives has also become the most
important tasks of the HRM.
Leadership Development:
Developing the right soft skills to
give shape to the future leaders along
with knowledge, experience and
expertise is also a necessary task of
the HR managers. Since the global
economic and industrial scenario is
very volatile and dynamic, what is
required now is a skill set in yhe
workforce which distinguishes them
as team leaders.
Change Management: Response of
the business to the changing external
and internal environment is known
as change management. Today’s
industrial growth scenario demands
that there should be change brought
about within all circles of the
industry but there are some forces
which resist the change. It is a huge
challenge before the HR managers to
influence the resisting forces with
the organizations , manage internal
conflicts, motivate them to face
changes and implement the changes.
