Critical Issues in Hrm

Organizations are continuously developing and growing which bring several challenges to human resources managers. Human Resources Managers will experience issues involving diversity, training, globalization, e-commerce, and every day ups and down changes of the business market. HR Managers must be prepared to handle these issues. This paper will look at critical issues affecting human resources management and effective ways to handle these issues.

Global and Economic Changes

To stay competitive more organizations are taking their companies global. Overseas importing and exporting, new international factories, and business agreements and mergers with foreign companies are trending in many markets. Organization expansion creates competition and changes. Human resources are experiencing global challenges and thereby must provide rationale for changes that can be adopted within all regions of the organization. Globally the biggest challenges HR faces are change management, leadership development, and measurement of HR effectiveness. Change management skill are different in different regions, competency dealing with change management is a common skill needed for HR professionals. Human resources managers and staff have to find a way to be more consistent in training and development of its professionals so they can be well equipped to deal with change management.

Globally, leadership development has proven to be a challenge for human resources. HR Managers have issues trying to best understand ways to keep leadership in the pipeline and develop leaders for succession planning. If HR professionals were to become strategic business partners they need to provide essential framework, tools, and innovative views needed for selection and development of leaders and future leaders.

Challenges also facing organizations and human resources management globally and economically is the increased competitive of among firms. Nayab (2010) “Human resources now plays an increasingly strategic role to ensure that an organization has the right talent to meet the high demand of global competition and exploit opportunities” (Understanding Global and Economic Changes to Human Resource Management, Para 2). Human resource management must adopt a market-driven approach in functional activities, mentor change and offer ways to cope with change, implement motivational approaches to the workforce, manage the talent and match the organizational mission with employee interest, and develop innovative leadership styles that can transform the organization into a global competitor.

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