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2022, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2975 – 2979

The Emerging Challenges of Human Resource Management

1G. Divya, 2Komal Gupta

1
Faculty of Commerce and Management, Kalinga University, Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India,
[email protected]
2
Faculty of Commerce and Management, Kalinga University, Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India,
[email protected]

Abstract
Every organization’s realization about human resources being the most valuable asset has led to the
acceptance of policies like competence building, job rotation, performance-linked pay, etc. It is to
promote the overall development of human resources. A lot of attention is also being given to employee
welfare and social security. Post-retirement benefits are also offered along with health insurance,
provident fund, pension etc. A vital role is played by HR in acquisition, preparation and maintenance
of human resources for addressing various challenges. Changing market conditions also pose a major
challenge to organizations. Market inflations, and downfalls, each add up to the challenges. Candidates'
reaction to situation varies even under the most likely circumstances. These are blockers to human
resource management. It has to be pro-actively dealt with and necessary steps need to be taken for
affection human resource function.

Keywords: Technology Innovation, Globalization Strategic Partners, Challenges of Talented

Attraction and Retention, diversity Culture and roles of Professional Personal.

INTRODUCTION position(vacancy) that is the reason it takes few

months to find the eligible and the right person
Organizations nowadays are receiving for the right job. As in many places mentioned
applications and complains from their personnel that human resource management (HRM) is one
and labours, from various departments like of the management functions and which is
finance, management and even from CEO of the generating wonderful change in the new
organization. The Human Resource millenary. As passing of the years we know that
Management (HRM) manager of the company is there is a shift in HRM manager’s
most likely to hear the complaints about their responsibilities from quite handing personnel
related job such as the recruitment and selection issues to designing the implementation of the
in the future and now the HRM in organizations complication strategy for organization and
face the great challenges and these challenges company.
are as advancement of technology, globalization
of business, strategic partner, and change in Aim:
rules and regulations, political changes,
attraction and talent challenges, cultural, The main aim and purpose of this paper is to
diversitical, payment system, and the discover the HR problems, issues and emerging
environment changes and the role of experiences challenges to find some practical solutions.
and professional personnel. The unemployment Human Resource Management (HRM):
is overhung on the economy and the
organizations are mournful that they aren’t able HRM is one of the management functions and it
to find suitable and skilled employees is defined as the process of doing the right things
sometimes to fulfill even a single and directing the personnel. Or
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Human Resource Management (HRM) is the These challenges of the management are one of
process of recruiting, selecting, placement, the huge challenges of today’s era that is why
promoting, transferring, firing, training, and today globalization is welcoming various
development, motivating employees, business firms to expand globally which is vital
compensation & benefits and the selections of and adding value to the national and
right person for the right job. HRM (human international income.
resource management) is the combinations of
some functions as the following… Emerging Challenges:
One of the most important and critical activity
⮚ Planning
for HR manager is the planning of HR.
⮚ Organizing According to the 21st century the firms have to
change from behind the visible aspect to the
⮚ Directing critical seeming differentiators of business. The
firms or organizations should adopt the changes
⮚ Controlling of globalization like: the new technology,
selection & recruiting skills, knowledge and
⮚ Staffing suitable manpower. The manpower of
Human resource management is an management is hiring one of the exasperate task
interdisciplinary subject of the organization. The and for which it requires specialized skills and
main reason of HRM is expected for utilization knowledge. In the past few years, numerous
of existing knowledgeable and skills workforce. changes have taken place due to the rise in
In this 21st century nationally and several discharge of employees and personnel.
internationally the human resource management Number of people lost their job and it is a huge
(HRM) is trying to utilize the knowledge, skills pressure on the organization’s management that
and expertise of the employees and labors as which is putting the organization in a serious
much as possible. Efficiently and effectively to situation to follow the procedure and strategy of
meet the organizational target and goal, HRM discussing the following challenges faced by HR
(human resource management) is focusing of the which is identified through reviewing of
importance of workforce and employee’s literature.
compensation and benefits to concerns as Challenges of Technology Advancement:
employees are playing a vital role in the
organization targeting its objectives to be The world of business is going to change. The
successful. The organizations around the globe main source of these changes is the fast
are recently going through some challenges of advancement of the technology. The
the dynamic environment to which the organizations and firms should adopt these
companies are required to adopt new changes changes for their businesses otherwise the
and apply effort for the profit of the competition in the national & international
organization. Nowadays the firms are coming market will be difficult and for that purpose the
across various challenges and the HR trying to harshest challenges which is going to be faced in
overcome these challenges and these challenges the organization is HR because the change in
are…. technology and machinery itself means the
change in the nature of work process itself and
⮚ Globalization. numerous of employees and labors will be
displaced by the advanced technology. These
⮚ Technological advancement. positive changes are good and necessary for the
⮚ Everyday innovation. business firms to exist and remain competitive
in the market. But it can be a red light or a
⮚ Political as well as economic instability. serious error to ignore the employees. These
changes have an impact on the workforce the
⮚ Ethical and ecological challenges. advancement of the technology which reduces
various jobs which requires little knowledge and
⮚ Skills workforces. skills but it is increasing the number of jobs
which are requiring considerable high-profile
⮚ Environment challenges.
skills & knowledge. The work process moving
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from hardware to software means from the touch according to Thomas it’s not limited to the
of labour to the required knowledge and skills of following...
the demanding work. The situation is tough but
the organization has to change the technology. ⮚ Age
The advance and new technology will be
⮚ Gender
increasing unemployment and there would be
shortage of knowledgeable and skilled ⮚ Ethnicity
employees. Technology besides of various
facilities, it also brings challenges and ⮚ Ancestry
difficulties in the organization.
⮚ Physical abilities
Modern Globalization Challenges in the HRM:
⮚ Race
First of all it is need to know about globalization
and its meaning. Globalization is the process of ⮚ Educational background
interconnection of various parts of the world
through your business. The main aim or ⮚ Sexual orientation
objective of globalization is to secure socio-
economic integration and development of all the ⮚ Income
people of the world through a free flow of goods,
services, information, knowledge and people ⮚ Marital statue
across all boundaries. As we know globalization ⮚ Geographic location
meaning is going beyond the national borders
for the same product market force which ⮚ Military experience
operates the economic activities for the
countries at all level and is showing the unity of ⮚ Religious believes
trade world and its financial market as well.
Growing of globalization and ⮚ Parental statue
internationalization has the major impact on the
⮚ Values
HRM in the following terms…….

⮚ Attitude ⮚ Work experiences

In some articles there is mentioned just eight of
⮚ Languages these major factors, but for better understanding
⮚ Law the ability of differentiation and success or
evaluation of information which is related to the
⮚ Practices culture and human diversity is needed.

⮚ Work ethics Change in Political and Legal Environment:

There are 195 countries in the world but each
⮚ Unfamiliar competition
one has its own rules and regulations.
⮚ Management style Sometimes these rules and regulations are
changing due to some political issues and there
⮚ Political issues may be some changes in the political parties.
The firms or organizations should be always
The above challenges are the huge concerned for ready for the unexpected changes and adopt it
the human resource manager because the HRM without any breakdown in its operational mode.
recently daily faces number of such issues in the It is the responsibility and duty of HRM
organizations on a daily basis. department and an industrial relations executive
Diversity Culture and Role of Professional to completely survey the implication of these
Personnel: mentioned changes which brings the necessary
adjustment in the organization, so that later the
Diversity defined as a scope of workplace goal of HR can be achieved.
regarding Thomas (1992) or can define as
dimension of workplace including diversity and
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Recruitment and Selection: Conclusion:

Recruitment- It is a complete cycle of In concluding section, it can be said that HR
identifying and attracting potential employees. It (human resource) practices are becoming day -
is followed by interviewing, selecting, hiring, by – day a more and more challenging and the
and onboarding them. It is an end-to-end process HR department shall be facing a lot of issues and
of identification of candidates to fill the problems. The challenges which the HR have to
vacancy. face are like attraction of employees, dealing
with various culture, retention, managing
Based on organization size, the recruitment workforce diversity, technology and
process require a team of workers. Larger information innovation and to overcome with
organization tend to have a talent acquisition these mentioned challenges training is vital and
team in contrast to smaller organizations having necessary for HR people to reduce this mobility
only one recruiter. While some organization of the workforce and professional personnel. HR
choose to have a hiring manager for recruitment, have to reward them and motivate the personnel
some outsource it to third party firms. by monetary rewards, and non- monetary
Recruitment information is advertised via job rewards. For these issues there is a proper need
boards, social media sites, career sites etc. The of performance evaluation and analysis system
utilization of recruitment software’s has also and the proper career development system plans
become popular leading to more efficient should be used in the organization to reduce the
shortlisting of candidates. professional mobility.
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