To guarantee the high company’s performance, managers use a lot of different tools in order to organize the work of employees effectively and contribute to achieving positive working outcomes. The problem is in the fact that the effective management depends on overcoming certain challenges associated with human resources and organization of their work.
Typical challenges which can be faced by human resource managers are the workforce diversity, the necessity to implement changes, and the necessity to provide the effective training and development for employees. The purpose of this report is to discuss the above-mentioned challenges, to determine their causes, and to plan actions in order to address the problems.
Workforce diversity is associated with the needs to organize the effective cooperation of employees who are characterized by different age, gender, status, culture, race, and ethnicity. These differences can result in many conflicts and in the lack of the effective communication and cooperation between employees.
From this point, the HR manager is responsible for developing the strategies in order to improve the communication between the workers and to overcome the possible barriers. The next challenge is the necessity to implement changes in the organizational process. Employees are usually not ready to change their habits and methods of working.
However, the effective development of the company is possible only when changes and improvements are successfully implemented in the organizational process or structure (Liu et al., 2007). The company’s progress depends on the individual progress of employees that is why HR managers pay much attention to working out training and development programs in order to improve employee’s skills and stimulate the work performance.
However, it is a challenge to implement the program which can respond to the company’s goals, meet the modern requirements and trends and be financially advantageous. To find out the ways to overcome HRM challenges, it is necessary to focus on the causes. The problems based on workforce diversity are often caused by the unwillingness of the managers to admit the fact of the problem existence when conflicts between employees become typical.
The resolution is in focusing on team building and stimulating the effective communication between employees which is free from biases (Liu et al., 2007). The cause of problems connected with implementing necessary changes and the role of human resources in the process is in unpreparedness of employees to learn new principles and norms, to change their working habits.
Thus, HR manager’s task is to help employees overcome barriers in admitting the changes (Meyer, Stanley, & Vandenberg, 2013). The effective plan to cope with the challenge depends on working out stages of the implementation and adaptation to the process in detail. The key aspect is the gradual changes along with the effective previous training.
Facing challenges associated with employees’ training and development, HR managers should determine the possible cause of the problem which can depend on training costs, on the absence of the effective base for providing the training and development, or on the employees’ emotional and professional barriers.
From this perspective, the task of the HR manager is to choose the program which is the most appropriate for the company in relation to completing the goals and objectives, saving the company’s finances, and providing the employees with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge.
References
Liu, Y., Combs, J., Ketchen, D., & Ireland, D. (2007). The value of human resource management for organizational performance. Business Horizons, 50(1), 503-511.
Meyer, J., Stanley, L., & Vandenberg, R. (2013). A person-centered approach to the study of commitment. Human Resource Management Review, 23(2), 190–202.