Trends and future challenges of HRM in global context

  Post covid 19 pandemic employee well-being became area of concern in most of the organizations. The increase in stress, fear and uncertainty due to pandemic situation, social isolation due to remote working has decrease the employee productivity. Domestic violence, home schooling, working remotely has led to tremendous impact on employee mental health and well-being impacting on employee productivity and absenteeism. Due to these reasons, HR had to pay special attention to the well-being of the employees, enable them to deliver more productive output for the organization and for employees to have balanced work-life and more healthy personal life. As per Grant et.al., 2007 there are three dimensions in well-being, psychological, physical and social. Let's look at each in detail; 1. Psychological well-being   Refers to job satisfaction, presence of positive feelings at work, balance between positive and negative thinking, fulfillment of potential.  2. Physical well-be...

Today's workforce is consisting of four main generations, Baby boomers, Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z. These four generations are segregated based on the born year and it is said that each group share the same qualities, requirements and working patterns based on the life experiences they took. Their personal values, communication styles, how they approach work, language and perception of each other may vary from each group. To effectively manage and recruit a multigenerational workforce it is important to be aware of these characteristics as these make conflicts in the workplace (Dwyer, 2009). Hence managing these four groups’ needs as per their group requirements and carefully designing the interactions between four groups to achieve organizational goals as one team will be one of the future challenges for human resource management. According to Dwyer (2009) and Gabrielova and Buchko (2021) below Figure 1 summarize the different age cohorts in today’s workforc...

                                               The covid-19 pandemic has created a new normal life for both people and organizations despite the dynamic changes taking place in the organizational environment due to emerging sophisticated technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, cloud computing, data driven culture and much more. The new operating models have been created for today and future by this sudden unexpected Covid – 19 pandemic, making plans made prior 2019 outdated. (Przytuła, S.  et al , 2020) The follow-up survey done based on 80,000 Fujitsu’s Japan based employees revealed that 55% of them preferred a mix of home and office working model after they were working from home for two and half months despite the fact that 74% employees considered the office to be the best place to work not long before the pan...