They will also need to build a common work culture, encompassing similar ethics and values, among people who hail from very different cultures.
HR will need to become better integrated into their firm’s overall risk-management and business-continuity planning. Specifically, it will have to be more involved in assessing, and preparing for, disruptive events, such as natural disasters, IT-system or operations outages, and interruptions to increasingly global and complex supply chains. With regard to supply chains, HR will have to be more attuned to corporate social-responsibility practices. As the number of global suppliers and subcontractors increases along both the production and distribution chain, HR will need to understand and anticipate the types of risks that could have a negative impact on the firm’s brand and company image.
HR managers will need to find sufficiently reliable data and analytics to make sound strategic business decisions, and minimize risk