Human Resource Management in 21st Century: Issues & Challenges & Possible Solutions to Attain Competitiveness
The modern business can not effectively operate in the business world if the human force not well equipped with the latest technology and techniques. This is the responsibility of the human force manager to properly train the work force and to see what is the basic need for the human force to achieve the competitive advantages of business in 21st century. Great debates on this topic going on form several years and no doubts human is an important part of any organization but due to rapid changes in the business world, globalization, change in customer taste and habits, new techniques of production, human in the organization now facing different kind of problems, to cope this situation the today’s HR manager also facing a variety of issues and challenges that how they can best mange and solve all these issues and challenges with splendid ways. HR manager facing a variety of challenges to meet these challenges for the future, tomorrow HR manager or department must be much sophisticated than their
predecessors (Byers and Rue, 2006). Because a one international or multinational organization can not perform their activities well when their HR manager knows the diversity of technique to hack it with these issues and to how they can prepared a unobjectionable force for the organization to face the rapid competitive business word and to operate in the situation. All the organizations should prepare their human resources people keeping in view the global environment or market place to ensure competitive advantage. Human resource manager will have to build or developed such a frame work that allows flexibility to develop such a workforce that will be the work force for tomorrow. (Andries du plessis, 2008).The main aim of the paper is to address the HR issues and challenges in the light of variety of literature work by different authors.
2.1 Technology
Another HRM challenge is the technology. Technology means the ways and methods of living and work. These methods and ways have been changed by the modern technology. The information technology has changed everything. It touches such information and ideas which are essential for the economy. Economy has large amount of capital that resides in people. There are some other assets which are physically owned by the people but Human Resource as an essential asset has no true ownership. The only way to develop and retain such human resources is create such an environment which compete them to stay in the organization and it is a main challenge for HRM.