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Emerging HR issues for the twenty-first century

✍ Scribed by Joseph F. Coates

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 642 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0745-7790
DOI: 10.1002/ert.3910230402

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✦ Synopsis

he human resources departments of U.S. corporations are living out the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting T times." As a staff function, they are caught between the innovations of top management, downsizing, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, outsourcing, customer orientation, and endless numbers of putative money-making innovations. O n the other hand, they are implementing the demolition and restructuring of the traditional bureaucracy with its hierarchical structure, its unidirectional information flow, and its pigeonholing and limited responsibilities of semirobotized workers. Unfortunately when the dust of this transition has settled and the corporation has moved into new equilibrium, HR can take no comfort in knowing that this turbulence is behind them.

This article highlights a number of emerging issues that through the early decades of the next century will be either new or newly important. The implications of each separately and together include, first, the need for early accommodation in strategic planning of the unfolding developments. Second, and more general, is the awareness that these new issues challenge the assumptions of HR and the assumptions of top management about managing a corporation that is global in scope, expanding in resources and markets, and encountering unfamiliar relationships with customers, workers, governments, and cultures.

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