Human Resource Management

Challenges (HR Challenges)

Submitted by-
Vedant Kanwate, Gunjan Rokade
To
Dr. Vijay Kulkarni
Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune
28th January, 2020 “We build brand first with
our people, not customers,
we invested in employees.”
Schultz H (2005)
 Table of Contents
• Glimpse of philosophy
• Understanding Human Resource
• Human Resource Management Challenges
• Environmental Challenges
• Organizational Challenges
• Individual Challenges
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
 Glimpse of philosophy
• The purpose of HRM is to ensure that the employees of an
organization are used in such a way that the employer obtains
the greatest possible benefit from their abilities and the
employees obtain both material and psychological rewards
from their work (Graham, 1978).

• HRM is a managerial perspective which argues the need to

establish an integrated series of personnel policies to support
organizational strategy. (Buchanan and Huczynski, 2004).
 Understanding Human Resource

Human resources is the department

within a business that is responsible
for all things worker-related. That
includes recruiting, vetting,
selecting, hiring, onboarding,
training, promoting, paying, and
firing employees and independent
contractors.
 Human Resource Management
Challenges
1. Environmental Challenges
2. Organizational Challenges
3. Individual Challenges
 Environmental Challenges

• The environmental challenges are related to the external forces

that exist in the outside environment of an organization & can
influence the performance of the management of the
organization.

1. Rapid Change
2. Work Force Diversity
3. Globalization
4. Legislation
5. Technology
6. Job & Family Roles
7. Lack of Skills
 Organizational Challenges

• The organizational challenges for the HRM are related to the

factors that are located inside the organization

1. Controlling Costs
2. Improving Quality
3. Developing
Distinctive
Capabilities
4. Restructuring
 Individual Challenges
• The decisions related to the specific individual employees are
included in the individual challenges for the HRM. The
organizational issues are also affected by the fact that how
employees are treated within the organizations.

01- Productivity
02- Empowerment
03- Brain drain
04- Ethics & social
responsibility
05- Job insecurity
06- Matching people &
organization
 Conclusion
• HRM is a mighty disciplinary subject. It includes the study of
management psychology communication, economics and
sociology.
• The employee must be given adequate training and knowledge
regarding his job and responsibilities, which includes technical
knowledge, decision-making skills and group process skills.
• Human Resource Mangers should also emerge as Counselors
as Mental Illness and addiction seems to on constant rise in the
organizations
 Bibliography
• Dave Bookbinder, The New Roi: Return on Individuals

• Graham, H.T. (1978) Human Resource Management, 2 nded. Plymouth:

MacDonald & Evans

• Buchanan, D. and Huczynski, A. (2004) Organizational Behaviour: An

Introductory Text. 5 thed. Harlow: Prentice Hall.

• https://www.businessstudynotes.com/hrm/human-resource-management-
challenges/

• challenges of Human Resource Management in Borderless world- Parag A.

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