Emerging trends in HRM

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Change in the Labor Force

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 Skill Deficiencies of the
Workforce
• Today, employers are • The gap between
looking for: skills needed and
– mathematical skills skills available has
– verbal skills decreased companies
– interpersonal skills ability to compete.
– computer skills • They sometimes lack
the capacity to
upgrade technology,
reorganize work, and
empower employees.
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 High-Performance Work Systems

• Organizations that have the best possible fit

between their:
– social system (people and how they interact);
and
– technical system (equipment and processes).
• Key trends occurring in today’s high-
performance work systems:
– reliance on knowledge workers
– the empowerment of employees to make
decisions
– the use of teamwork
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 Knowledge Workers
• Employees whose • They are especially
contribution to the needed for jobs in:
organization is – health services
specialized – business services
knowledge, such as: – social services
– knowledge of – engineering
customers – management
– knowledge of a
process
– knowledge of a
profession
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Top 10
Occupations
for Job
Growth

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Strategic Business Issues
Affecting HRM

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Change in the Employment
Relationship

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