Human Resources Articles

In this article, some major business strategies and their implication for HRM practices has been analyzed. Human Resource Management (HRM) was once viewed as a support function to business organizations. But with changing times, aligning human resource strategies with corporate strategies have become very important for competing successfully with other organizations.

Human Resource Planning has been on the forefront in the minds of Indian Planners ever since independence. Macro-level Human Resource Planning i.e. the task of matching people’s skills to the nation’s human resource requirement so as to provide productive job opportunities is a gigantic, yet the most vital thing for maintaining economic and social stability in the economy.

Change everyone accepts is an inevitable reality of any business environment. Change in leadership, change in microenvironment in which an organization operates, change in external forces like competition are all very common, however recent times have seen a paradigm shift in organizational culture that views employees as the most important resource for gaining competitive advantage.

Uberization is has started permeating every aspect of business worldwide. Uberization means disrupting an existing business model by the way of technology. Be it marketing or finance, analytics is proving to be a lot more helpful than expected and now the time has come for it to enter the most manual function of any business, i.e. Human Resources.

This article focuses on how Artificial Intelligence is invading the field of HR. In the present VUCA scenario, even a little careless attitude may lead an organization towards death. The competition may be in the form of products, services, resources or technology. Thus, while companies pay good attention towards enhancing their products and services, they should not forget the human resources that form the backbone of the organization.

In the competitive era companies are putting the great efforts to hire competent employees and to expand related competencies in their existing employees. In this way companies try to win over other companies. In current economy where resources and talent are limited and companies are fighting for the same so it becomes more important for the organizations to update and re-evaluate their competencies and also they have to take initiative for necessary changes. Thus competency mapping is becoming the need of organization to fight competition.