The HR managers further nominate in order of relevance:
- The ensuring of an even balance between work and private life to attract and retain talent;
- the controlling of expatriates;
- the new regulation of the financial sector and its influence on remuneration structures;
- multinationals as a cross-border source for regulation of human resources such as rules of behaviour with regard to good employment practices and international framework agreements;
- the question of whether hrm-strategies will be faced with increasing international and employment legislation;
- the fight against discrimination (such as because of gender, age and religion) and the impact thereof on the establishment of (worldwide) corporate cultures;
- the rise of a new networking generation of employees and the limitations of continuing communication in the workplace (such as the use of internet and social networks).
- the need for an international view on new ways to shape employee participation and collective negotiations