Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges
Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges

Author: Carolina Machado

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3319026186

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This book focuses on the challenges and changes that new technologies bring to human resources (HR) of modern organizations. It examines the technological implications of the last changes taking place and how they affect the management and motivation of human resources belonging to these organizations. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use organizational technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of human resources management and technological challenges and changes in the field of industry, commerce and services.

Management and Technological Challenges in the Digital Age
Management and Technological Challenges in the Digital Age

Author: Pedro Novo Melo

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0429816235

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Businesses operate amid a digital age, and unsurprisingly, technology has engendered tools that now predominate all corners of the workplace. The ascendancy of new hardware and software poses new challenges for professionals in the field of management and human resources as corporations and companies routinely implement and incorporate digital software for goals such as improving worker productivity and tasks such as screening highly qualified candidates for vacancies. In the face of rapid change, professionals must investigate how the use of digital technology affects the culture of hiring processes, employee morale, company management, and corporate image. This book aims to promote research related to these new trends and open a new field within the areas of management and engineering. Through the course of nine chapters, contributors to Management and Technological Challenges in the Digital Age grapple with the theoretical and practical implications that technological usage carries across the range of small and large organizations in the world of business. Focuses on the latest research findings that are occurring in this field in different countries Shows how companies around the world are facing today's technological challenges Shares knowledge and insights on an international scale Keeps the readers and researchers informed about the latest developments in the field and forthcoming international studies Explains how the use of technology allows management to take a more strategic role in organizations This book affords a thorough engagement with the progresses and setbacks made through the enlistment of technological equipment and computerized procedures in the field of human resources and management while interrogating the future challenges of technology’s role.

Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends
Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends

Author: Ronald R. Sims

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1641135379

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Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: “Now and Around the Corner” explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner. Like other departments in the broader organization HRM professionals will need to increasingly demonstrate how they add value and contribute to the organization’s success. While the trends, challenges and issues impacting organizations and HRM professionals will continue to change over the years, the bottom-line of organization success is the clear reality that employees are their best assets and the need for effective HRM. The book is intended to help to better understand the ongoing transformation of HRM given the issues, challenges and opportunities offered by the contributors to this book. This means the book discusses the ever evolving role of HRM professionals to include discussion of how the profession must continue to become more adaptive, resilient, quick to change direction and customer-centered in its efforts to help meet the human resource needs of contemporary organizations and their employees. The book contributes to the ongoing dialogue and insights offered by HRM experts on what HRM professionals and their organizations can do in the face of such challenges, trends and issues in their efforts to win the talent wars.

Innovations and Challenges in Human Resource Management for HR4.0
Innovations and Challenges in Human Resource Management for HR4.0

Author: Rajesh Singh

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9781536189919

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"To sustain competitiveness in today's highly local and global markets, an organization needs to excel in all its key dimensions. The world is facing a new industrial era marked by digitalization in various multidimensional sectors; experts call it Industry 4.0. Humans are slowly but steadily being replaced by mechanical automation and technological digitalization in driving the economy. The potential benefits of Industry 4.0 are improving the speed of production flexibility, improving service to customers and increasing revenue. Challenges in human resources management include strengthening the management system and processes of an organization to improve performance and create value for stakeholders. Innovations and Challenges in Human Resource Management for HR4.0 helps to convey the importance of "HR4.0" in all aspects of business, not just product and process quality. It is about achieving excellence in everything that an organization does, and most importantly achieving superior business results. This book provides international insights to manage business performance improvements and companies' value creation dynamics. Readers will learn how to use multi-functional area tools, techniques, innovative frameworks, practices and approaches for understanding, assessing and managing the strategic value drivers of business excellence. This book provides a rich repertoire of tools and techniques across business functions researched, tested and validated in various business settings, and provides a new stream of thoughts by a few fine researchers in the domain of business management"--

Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management
Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management

Author: Vernon D. Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1136224971

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While communicating is a vital skill for managers at all organizational levels and in all functional areas, human resource managers are expected to be especially adept communicators, given the important interpersonal component of their roles. Practitioners and scholars alike stand to benefit from incorporating an updated and more nuanced view of communication theory and practice into standard human resource management practices. This book compiles readings by thought leaders in human resource management and communication, exploring the intersection of interests, theories, and perspectives from the two fields to highlight new opportunities for research and practice. In addition to covering the foundations of strategic human resource management, the book: offers a critical review of the research literature on topics including recruitment, selection, performance management, compensation, and development uses a communication perspective to analyze the impact of corporate strategy on human resource systems investigates the key human resource management topic of the relationship between a company's human capital and its effectiveness directly discusses the implications of communication literature for human resource management practice Written at the cross-section of two established and critcally linked fields, this book is a must-have for graduate human resource management and organizational communication students, as well as for high-level human resource management practitioners.

Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy
Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy

Author: Mark L. Lengnick-Hall

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781576751596

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This volume synthesizes thinking on knowledge management and intellectual capital from a broad range of sources and identifies how human resource management can make a value-added contribution.

Designing and Implementing HR Management Systems in Family Businesses
Designing and Implementing HR Management Systems in Family Businesses

Author: Gnan, Luca

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1799848159

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Human resource management (HRM) systems are an under-researched area in family business studies even though they arguably play an important role. To exploit their entrepreneurial orientation and achieve their goals, family firms must be willing to adopt a specific configuration of the organizational variables to succeed in the competitive environment of today. Designing and Implementing HR Management Systems in Family Businesses is a pivotal reference source that focuses on HRM in family businesses aiming at clarifying what HRM topics are relevant in family firms given their distinctive features, what the role of HR choices in family firms is, and how they differ in these organizations. While highlighting topics such as quality of work, generational workforce, and leadership management, this publication explores the relationship between HRM systems and the organization as well as why certain theories would be more dominant for family firms. This book is ideally designed for family businesses, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, business professionals, academicians, students, and researchers.

Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management
Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management

Author: Mehmet Ali Turkmenoglu

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1800433948

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Focusing on current workplace issues and employee and employer expectations of Human Resource Management in a rapidly changing business environment, this book examines current trends of HR practices and expands on current literature.