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BBA Discussion Forum / Challenges in HRM
« on: February 23, 2013, 01:51:55 PM »
Contemporary Challenges in Human Resource Management
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1. Workforce Diversity
• Life style and life circumstances are changing.
-Growing single parent family.
- increasing working couples,
• Women workers are growing.
-demands for flexible work hours,
- demands for daycare centers,
-inhibition to organizational ability to transfer or
recruit.
- equal pay for comparable work.
• Increasing minorities
• Increasing old age workers.
• Cultural diversity and valuing diversity of workforce.
2. Social and cultural expectations of workforce
i) Increasing education of workers.
ii) Demand for participation in decision making.
iii) Collective action.
iv) Demand for due process.
v) Increasing layoff
vi) Environmental pressure.
3. Quality of Work Life (QWL) of workforce
Criteria for analyzing the QWL in an organization:
1. Adequate and fair compensation.
2. Safe and healthy working conditions.
3. Opportunity to use and develop human capacity.
• Whole task rather than fragmentation of a task.
• Substantial autonomy and self control.
• Ample opportunity to use a wide range of skills.
4. Opportunity for continued growth and security.
• Scope for training and development,
• job security
• Advancement .
5. Social integration in the work organization.
• Group support.
• Sense of community.
• Freedom from prejudice and opportunity for upward mobility.
6. Constitutionalism.
7. Balanced role of work.
• Balance between work life and other spheres of lives of employees.
8. Socially beneficial and responsible work.
4. Technological change and the workforce
5. Influence of the External Environment
a) Economic and political conditions.
b) Globalization.
c) Differential industry growth
d) Quality and Productivity concerns.
e) Innovations in management and technology.
6. Regulatory Measures and Affirmative Actions
a) Major laws.
b) Minorities and affirmative action.
c) Women’s benefit and right.
d) Pension with disabilities.
e) Immigration.
f) Labour relations and plant closing.
g) Polygraph testing.
h) Drug abuse.
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1. Workforce Diversity
• Life style and life circumstances are changing.
-Growing single parent family.
- increasing working couples,
• Women workers are growing.
-demands for flexible work hours,
- demands for daycare centers,
-inhibition to organizational ability to transfer or
recruit.
- equal pay for comparable work.
• Increasing minorities
• Increasing old age workers.
• Cultural diversity and valuing diversity of workforce.
2. Social and cultural expectations of workforce
i) Increasing education of workers.
ii) Demand for participation in decision making.
iii) Collective action.
iv) Demand for due process.
v) Increasing layoff
vi) Environmental pressure.
3. Quality of Work Life (QWL) of workforce
Criteria for analyzing the QWL in an organization:
1. Adequate and fair compensation.
2. Safe and healthy working conditions.
3. Opportunity to use and develop human capacity.
• Whole task rather than fragmentation of a task.
• Substantial autonomy and self control.
• Ample opportunity to use a wide range of skills.
4. Opportunity for continued growth and security.
• Scope for training and development,
• job security
• Advancement .
5. Social integration in the work organization.
• Group support.
• Sense of community.
• Freedom from prejudice and opportunity for upward mobility.
6. Constitutionalism.
7. Balanced role of work.
• Balance between work life and other spheres of lives of employees.
8. Socially beneficial and responsible work.
4. Technological change and the workforce
5. Influence of the External Environment
a) Economic and political conditions.
b) Globalization.
c) Differential industry growth
d) Quality and Productivity concerns.
e) Innovations in management and technology.
6. Regulatory Measures and Affirmative Actions
a) Major laws.
b) Minorities and affirmative action.
c) Women’s benefit and right.
d) Pension with disabilities.
e) Immigration.
f) Labour relations and plant closing.
g) Polygraph testing.
h) Drug abuse.