A Changing HR Environment

• Globalization
• Technological Advances
• The Nature of Work
• Workforce Demographics
• Government Legislation

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A Changing HR
Environment
 Globalization

 Extend business to new markets abroad

 More pressure to be world-class

 Companies have work harder and

smarter than they did without
globalization
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A Changing HR
Environment
• Technological Advances
• increase in technical/professional jobs
• decrease in traditional blue-collar jobs
• Continuous updated labor force
• concern about job displacement and health
hazards.
• right to privacy and ethical issues
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A Changing HR
Environment
• Nature of Job
• High-tech jobs
• Service jobs
• growth of the service sector and the
concept of ‘human capital’ (knowledge,
education, training, skills and expertise of
a firm’s workers)
• use of contingent and part-time
employees.
• Outsourcing the jobs

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A Changing HR
Environment
 Workforce Demographic Trends
 diversity
 people retire later
 more women in the workplace
 Change in age, education etc.
 Persons with disability

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 A Changing HR Environment

Government

- ensure policies and practices comply with new and

changing laws covering:

-human rights

-pay equity and employment equity

-occupational health and safety

Trends So Companies HR Managers will
Globalization Must be therefore need new
Technological competencies to
• More
Advances
competitive • Focus more on Strategic,
The Nature of • Faster and
Work Big-Picture Issues
More • Use new ways to provide
Workforce responsive
Demographics HR services
• More cost • Create High
Government effective
Legislation Performance Work
• Human Capital System
Oriented • Use Evidence-Based
HRM
Strategic Human Resource
Management

Formulating and executing human resource policies

and practices that produce the employee

competencies and behaviors the company needs to

achieve its strategic aims.

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New Ways to Provide HR Services
• Example-
 Facebook Recruiting
 Online testing
 Using Different Software
High-Performance Work Systems

• Increase productivity and performance by:

• Recruiting, screening and hiring more effectively
• Providing more and better training
• Paying higher wages
• Providing a safer work environment
• Linking pay to performance

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Evidence-based HRM

• The deliberate use of the best available

evidence in making decisions about the

human resource management practices.

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