Trends and Challenges of Human Resources
Human resources departments have existed for approximately 100 years. Previously known as personnel departments, organizations' departments specializing in the management of people assets have evolved through the years to address many issues. Change in labor laws, introduction and advancement in technology, and the way humankind has evolved has forced many trend changes in human resources management (HRM). In today's organizations, HRM has many functions and roles (Brannen, 2000). According to Dalton E. Brannen, Professor of Management in the college of business administration at Augusta State University, human resources management departments include the administrative role of processing benefits keeping employee records (Brannen, 2000). HRM also "
is required to develop and operate training, recruitment and safety programs." (Brannen, 2000, pp. 1-3). With the many changes that have occurred throughout the years, HRM challenges for effectiveness and efficiency have also multiplied. This study will address four important topics HRM departments face in today's organizations: how a complete performance management system is differs from an annual performance appraisals; advantages of managing turnover in companies; contemporary safety and health management issues, and future trends and challenges in the workplace will be discussed.
The process of analyzing employee performance has been a source for companies to determine how well an employee is performing at his job. This is how raises, promotions, and whether to keep an employee or let them go can be decided. Traditionally employee evaluations are done by managers or supervisors who annually assess the performance of employees o...
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Whether an organization consists of five or 25,000 employees, human resources management is vital to the success of the organization. HR is important to all managers because it provides managers with the resources – the employees – necessary to produce the work for the managers and the organization. Beyond this role, HR is capable of becoming a strong strategic partner when it comes to “establishing the overall direction and objectives of key areas of human resource management in order to ensure that they not only are consistent with but also support the achievement of business goals.” (Massey, 1994, p. 27)
With the 21st century in motion human resource management will face some of the old struggles and HR will be forced to face many new challenges. The main objective of HR is to recruit, retain, train, retrain and keep workers satisfied. Indeed, these responsibilities can be challenging in the 21st century, especially with changing roles, a multi-generational workforce, and globalization.