Contemporary Issues in HRM

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Saumya
Prakhar
Anil Yadav
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Contemporary Issues in HRM

Human resource managers face a myriad challenges with
todays workforce.
There are issues concerning the diverse workforce, legislation
affecting the workplace and technology matters that rise to
the top of the list of challenges.
Major Contemporary issues in HRM are:
International Human Resource

Management (IHRM)
International Human Resource Management
is the process of procuring, allocating and
effectively utilising human resources in an
international business.
Models of IHRM
Characteristics of IHRM
More HR activities
Need for a broader perspective
More involvement in employee
personal lives
Equal treatment to
different nationalities
Basic Steps in IHRM
Reasons for Growing Interest in

IHRM
Strategic Human Resource

Management (SHRM)
Strategic human resource management
Formulating and executing HR systems that produce the employee

competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its
strategic aims
Taking a strategic HRM approach means:
Making human resources management a top priority

Integrating HRM with the companys strategy, mission, and goals
HRM can make significant contributions if included

in the strategic planning process from the outset.
The strategic management process helps determine:

What must be done to achieve priority objectives
How they will be achieved
SHRM: A Key to Success
Three levels of strategy apply to HRM activities:
The HRM activities involved are:
SHRM: A Key to Success
Strategic HRM planning leads to:

Growth
Profits
Survival
Planning also:
Expands
awareness of possibilities
Identifies strengths and weaknesses
Reveals opportunities
Points to the need to evaluate the impact of internal
and external forces
Traditional HRM v.s. SHRM

Point of distinction
Traditional HR
Strategic HR
Focus
Employee Relations
Partnerships with internal and

external customers
Role of HR
Transactional change
follower and
respondent
Transformational change
leader and initiator.
Initiatives
Slow, reactive,
fragmented
Fast, proactive and integrated
Time horizon
Short-term
Short, medium and long (as

required)
Control
Bureaucratic-roles,
policies, procedures
Organic-flexible, whatever is
necessary to succeed
Job design
Tight division of labor;

independence,
specialization
Broad, flexible, cross-training

teams
Key investments
Accountability
Responsibility for HR
Capital, products
Cost centre
Staff specialists
People, knowledge
Investment centre
Line managers
Shifts in HR management in India

Emerging HR practice
Traditional HR practice
Administrative role
Reactive
Separate, isolated from
Strategic role
Proactive
Key part of organizational

mission
company mission
Production focus
Functional organization
Individuals encouraged,
Service focus
Process-based organization
Cross-functional teams,
teamwork most important
singled out for praise, rewards

People as expenses
People as key
investments/assets
Human Resource Management
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Strategic Management Process
HR Role in Strategic Management

In strategy formulation
HR manager supplies competitive intelligence
that is useful
In strategy implementation
Encouraging proactive behavior
Explicit communication goals
Stimulate critical thinking
Productivity
Quality and Service
Proficient strategic management
Types of Strategies
HR PRACTICES LINKED WITH

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
The Matching Model
The Control Based Models
The Resource based Model
The Integrative Model
Green Human Resource

Management (GHRM)
Green HR is one which involves two
essential elements: environmentally friendly
HR practices and the preservation of
knowledge capital.Green HR involves
reducing your carbon footprint via less
printing of paper, video conferencing and
interviews, etc.
The kinds of action taken within green HRM

initiatives include educating employees about
climate change and other environmental issues,
training in working methods that reduce the use
of energy and other resources, promoting and
incentivizing more sustainable means of travel
to work (e.g. car sharing, cycling, public
transport), and auditing employee benefits to
eliminate those that are environmentally
damaging (e.g. unnecessary provision of a high
powered company car)
Essential Green HR
Activities
Impact of Green HRM

Gaining perception, reputation and good will.
Economically useful, hence direct impact on
profit and enhances the return on
investments.
Better Power Utility
Better Utilization of Resources
Cost Effective
Smarter Performance translated into
Cheaper Products.
During the past 2 decades, a worldwide consensus

has begun to emerge around the need for proactive environmental management.in Response ,
scholars from management systems as diverse as
accounting , marketing and Supply-chain
Management have been analyzing how managerial
practices in these areas can contribute to
environmental management Goals.
Companies who Have adopted

GREEN HRM

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Contemporary Issues in HRM

International Human Resource

Basic Steps in IHRM

Reasons for Growing Interest in

Strategic Human Resource

Formulating and executing HR systems that produce the employee

Taking a strategic HRM approach means:

Making human resources management a top priority

HRM can make significant contributions if included

The strategic management process helps determine:

SHRM: A Key to Success

Three levels of strategy apply to HRM activities:

The HRM activities involved are:

SHRM: A Key to Success

Strategic HRM planning leads to:

Traditional HRM v.s. SHRM

Partnerships with internal and

Fast, proactive and integrated

Short, medium and long (as

Tight division of labor;

Broad, flexible, cross-training

Shifts in HR management in India

Key part of organizational

singled out for praise, rewards

Human Resource Management

Strategic Management Process

HR Role in Strategic Management

HR PRACTICES LINKED WITH

The Matching Model

The Control Based Models

The Resource based Model

The Integrative Model

Green Human Resource

The kinds of action taken within green HRM

Impact of Green HRM

During the past 2 decades, a worldwide consensus

Companies who Have adopted

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