Emerging trends in HR

Rashmi Kumari
 Overview of HR in respect to
present times

Over the years, Indian

Human resource The role of highly skilled and organizations are
management is HR manager knowledge based also witnessing a
a process of is shifting jobs are change in
bringing people increasing while systems,
from that of a
and low skilled jobs management
organizations
protector and are decreasing. cultures and
together so that screener to the This calls for philosophy due to
the goals of role of a future skill the global
planner and mapping through alignment of
each other are
proper HRM Indian
met change agent initiatives organizations

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 Need for new trends in HR
Globalizat ●
●More competition
●Increased use of outsourcing (off shoring) of jobs
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ion trends ●Mergers & Acquisitions

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Technolog ●

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Internet and PDA
Communication media
ical trends ●
Automation

Trends in the
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●High-tech jobs, Service jobs
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●
Increased demand for work/life balance
nature of job ●
●
Six Sigma performance expectation

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 The Top Seven People-Related HR
Issues According to CEOs
Retaining Talent

Attracting Talent with Critical Skills

Improving Workplace Performance

Gaining Control of Health Care Costs

Using the Web Effectively for Information/Service Delivery

Creating “People Measures” for a Balanced Scorecard

Building New Workforce Skills for the Next Round of Growth

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 Changes implemented to tackle
the HR issues
Investing more in training and development
to boost skills levels of employees

Succession planning
Changing employment practices to avoid charges
of discrimination [Race, Sex or Ethnicity].

Increased use of HR technology

Linking employee performance and its

impact on organization’s business goals

Develop retention strategies for current and

future workforce

Promoting corporate ethics/corporate social

responsibility

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 Present trends in training

Simulator training Self help training Virtual classroom

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 New trend in HR training
Voluntary
enrollment
training
●
When an employee feels the
lack of knowledge\skills.
He\she can enroll to the desired
training program through the
company employee’s website.
●
Self help
●
Instructor led

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 Latest trends in HR maintenance
& retention of employees
Applicatio
ns like
SAP [HR
instance]

Six Sigma,
Kaizen
gaining more
& more
importance
Payroll and other
related manual work
outsourced in order to
give more time to HR
personnel for strategic
decision making

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 What Are the Main Reasons
Employees Resign?
• Poor Behavior and Supervisions Skills of Front-Line
Managers
• Lack of Growth Potential
• Unable to Speak Freely About Concerns
• Lack of Recognition
• Don’t Like the Work
• Inadequate Pay
• Lack of Work/Life Balance

“People quit their manager, not their company.”

- Marcus Buckingham
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 Trends in retention
We have heard about selection interview.
Interview at the time of appraisal as well as
exit interview. However nowadays there is
trend of Stay interview coming up in the
industry. Where HR interview there
employee and understand the level of
satisfaction among them.

Trends such as outsourcing the

human resource (HR) function,
flexible work timings and job
sharing, no more restricted
only to the west

The trend of Work From Home

facility made available in service
industries to make sure the
employees have a better Work-Life
balance as well as it saves the time of
employee.

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 HR Managers today are focusing
attention on the following
HR
HR policies
policies based
based on
on trust,
trust, openness,
openness, equity
equity and
and consensus.
consensus. Open
Open door
door
Policies policy
policy

Create
Create conditions
conditions in
in which
which people
people are
are willing
willing to
to work
work with
with zeal,
zeal,
Motivation initiative
initiative and
and enthusiasm;
enthusiasm; make
make people
people feel
feel like
like winners.
winners.

Fair
Fair treatment
treatment of
of people
people and
and prompt
prompt redressal
redressal of
of grievances
grievances would
would pave
Relations the
the way
way for
for healthy
healthy work-place
work-place relations.
relations.
pave

Change agent Prepare

Prepare workers
workers to
to accept
accept technological
technological changes
changes by
by clarifying
clarifying doubts.
doubts.

Commitment
Commitment to
to quality
quality in
in all
all aspects
aspects of
of personnel
personnel administration
administration will
Quality Consciousness ensure
ensure success.
success.
will

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 Indian IT & ITES…..!
• Good pay, New experiences.
• Onsite, Over seas business.
• High targets, Hi bonuses.
• Large number of unemployed qualified
youth.

Even then attrition rate…. 50%.....!!!!!

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 THANK YOU

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