The Challenges of Human Resources

1.
 
The Challenge of the Global Community2.
 
The Stockholders Challenge
.
 
Stakeholders
 are the customers, employeesand the community where the enterpriseoperates.
3.
 
The Challenge for Productivity
.
 
Human resources became
“smarterworkers”
 with the aid of computer-aidedmachines, internets, and expert systems.
 
.
 
The links of high productivity are:
 
a.
 
Human resources and capabilities
 b.
 
New technology and opportunities
c.
 
Efficient work structure andcompany policies allow employeesand technology to
interact
 
The organization’s competitive advantage depends on
the strength of the above linkage
Contributing Growth Factors
1.
 
Increasing complexity of business operations
.
 
Personnel specialist
 was called upon to
formulate and carry out the organization’s
personnel policies and programs
 
2.
 
Government regularizations and labor lawspromulgated in recent years
.
 
In order
to safeguard the workers’ interests,
especially those related to wages, workingconditions, job security and health,
thegovernment deemed it wise to enact severallaws and government regulations.
 
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Labor Code of the Philippines (November 1,1974)
 
˚
 
Women and Child Labor Law
 
˚
 
The Minimum Wage Law
 
˚
 
The Eight-hour Labor Law
 
˚
 
Industrial Peace Act of 1953
 
3.
 
Growth of Labor Unions
.
 
Industrial Peace Act of 1953
˚
 
Magna Carta of Labor
˚
 
Triggered the organization of Laborunions and the strengthening the
workers’ bargaining power
4.
 
Influx of new concepts in management
 
.
 
The employee welfare concept is not new,but its nature has changed from one of
paternalism to that of employee’s right
through practices that have become