FUTURE CHALLENGES TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

The question how Human resource management would change in the post - modern globalized world needs to be understood in the light of challenges to Human resource management.

Emphasis on human resource management will be still greater in coming years. Companies / organizations are expected to invest more in health/welfare of workers.

Emergence of transnational /multinational corporations is bringing cross-cultural workforce and the consequent need to manage diversity (cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious, etc) properly.

Cost constraint and the resultant emphasis on the necessity of output maximizing stretigies viz. total quality management, flexible management systems etc.

Participative management for 'knowledge workers; need an active policy to retain good workers is expected to be increasingly felt in the comming years.

Flexible structuring in organizational design in response to changing requirements would be needed. Warren Benni,s futuristic prediction about linear organizations giving way to diverse and unconventional matrix is almost a truism today. Organizations now are less linear, more complex, environment more uncertain than predictable, traditional weber in construct more a utopian-io than a reality, more across functional/networked than vertical /linear; providing more scope for freewheeling for its knowledge workers rather than insisting and stressing on a commanding or directive work pattern and culture. Precisely, it's participative management, innovation and self managed work teams that are desired for a total quality management with emphasis on productive process, particularly technology. Organizational fluidity and dynamism may no longer be an almost a necessity for organizations survival in this environment of constant change. Organizations are perceived as organic entities constantly and continuously Vitali zed and growing, meeting new/emerging challenges and answering critics in their attempt to avoid moribund/redundant in their operations.