Human Resource Challenges

Human Resource Challenges

 Recruiting—getting the right people

• Controlling benefits costs

• Managing differing expectations & needs

• Retooling skill sets

• Phased retirement

• Globalization

• Helping employees deal with diversity

• Creating “community-driven two-way communications”

• Union issues

• Culture management

• Continued flexibility in work arrangements

• More temporary workers—related pressures for benefits

• Guild concept for professionals

• Tailoring of workplace to the individual

• Branded employee experience

• Office “rage” & how to deal with it

• Training/retraining

• Collaboration tools

• Information streams

• Leveraging technology

■ To administer HR programs

■ To provide information & resources

■ To create a dialogue

■ To “brand” HR

• Ensuring integration

• Helping organizations find/optimize synergies

• Succession planning

• Less tolerance on the part of boards

• Retirement income management