Changing Trends in HRM the Global Perspective

People and Organisations: Principles and Practice in Global Contexts

Changing Trends in HRM the Global Perspective

Human resource management is a process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each are met. It is a function in the organizations designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives. The world of work is rapidly changing. As a part of organization, Human Resource Management (HRM) must be prepared to deal with effects of changing world of work. Kaur, (2017).

One of the famous trends in the global context is workforce diversity, which means similarities and differences among employees in terms of age, cultural background, physical abilities and disabilities, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. No two humans are alike. Diversity is critically linked to the organization’s strategic direction (bedi et al., 2014). AT&T Company believes that their success begins with their people, and a diverse and inclusive workforce benefits their business, employees, customers, investors and communities. With a diverse workforce, they can better understand the different needs of their customers and can deliver products and services that enable them to do more. Anon., (2017).

Cloud computing has also been introduced in the field of human resource management for achieving innovative solutions for organization’s sustainability. Normally, human resources of an organization are located in diversified location, and this leads to communication gap that may be related to communicating with the team members or inefficiency in timely access of required information, or monitoring of the uploaded information by the other departments of the organizations. Bhadani, (2014). IBM private clouds can provide the reliability, security, and content protection media companies expect. Despite the issues and challenges, media companies continue to adopt clouds, and the cloud provider business continues to grow and mature. Given the risks—stolen content, lost revenue, reuse of content in inappropriate ways and the potential impact on brand, the growing consensus on the part of media companies is that they must take a pragmatic, incremental approach IBM, (2010).

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The challenges are equally copious. Organizations need to deal with an ageing workforce; they must attract, integrate and maintain multicultural employment pools. As a rule human resource management has to venture into new trends in order to remain relevant corporate development partner. Jose & pillai, (2015)

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Kaur, S., 2017. RECENT TRENDS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering, science and Management, 6(1), pp.375-77.