The sphere of human resource management is inextricably connected with the business environment and workplace. Thus, it is worth outlining a number of business trends that are likely to reshape the future of HRM professionals. Changing employee expectations along with increasing globalisation are bound to make future workplace barely recognisable. According to Coombes (2014), HR professionals should recognize business trends and practices and react accordingly. Thus, they are supposed to adopt a multi-faceted approach to providing HR services.
HR should ensure administrative efficiency along with employee contribution and their capacity for change in accordance with organization’s goals. Thus, HR professional should be a strategic partner that focuses on business strategy and improve the organizational processes. A professional, though, should to be able to listen and respond to employees' needs. It is worth noting that the global business is becoming rather unpredictable, since business conditions tend to change. Thus, HR is likely to be responsible for reshaping an organization as well as making it agile by hiring responsive and talented employees and reducing the turnover of talent (Coombes, 2014). HR professionals will offer career advancement opportunities for employees and at the same time maintain cooperative and healthy corporate culture.
The process of retaining and rewarding talented candidates who demonstrate high performance is bound to be taken place in the forthcoming years. Apart from that, HR will treat each successful employee more fairly by focusing on his unique preferences, needs and incentives. It seems that HR professionals will ensure flexible work arrangements in order to exhibit better productivity. Besides, HR professional is likely to protect confidential data and information of employees by adopting various risk management strategies.
References
Coombes, R. (2014). Ten trends that will reshape the future of HR. Retrieved from http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/ten-trends-that-will-reshape-the-future-of-hr