The world of work is quickly
changing. As a part of business, Human Resource Management (HRM) must be
prepared to deal with sound effects of changing world of work. For the HR
people it means understanding the implications of globalization, work-force
diversity, changing skill requirements, corporate downsizing, continuous
improvement initiatives, re-engineering, the contingent work force,
decentralized work sites and employee involvement for which all and more have
the financial implication to organization. Let alone on the employee side where
engagement, satisfaction, motivation, retention, absenteeism, turnover have to
be checked. As a rule human resource management has to venture into new trends
in order to remain relevant corporate development partner. Look at the one new trends as bellows;
Work-force
Diversity
“work
force diversity is a work force consisting of a broad mix of workers from
different racial and ethnic background of different ages and genders, and of
different domestic and national cultures’’
In
the past HRM was considerably simpler because our work force was strikingly
homogeneous. Where diversity flourishes, the potential benefits from better
creativity and decision making and greater innovation can be accrued to help
increase organization’s competitiveness. One means of achieving that is through
the organization’s benefits package. This includes HRM offering that fall under
the heading of the family friendly organization.
According
to Google's
2017 Diversity Report Shows Progress Hiring Women, Little Change for Minority
Workers
The updated workforce data shows that women make up 31% of all employees at
Google. Twenty percent of Google tech workers are women, up from 17% three
years ago. And women hold one in four leadership roles at the company.
Progress for increasing representation for racial and ethnic minorities
among Google’s workforce has been slower.
While Google released summary stats about women in its global workforce,
the race data is based on its EEO-1
Report which includes only its U.S. employees.
The number of Black U.S. employees remained stagnant over the past year at
2% of the total workforce and 1% of tech workers. The number of Hispanic and
Latinx employees also saw little change, increasing from 3% to 4% over the last
year
Diversity among new hires at the company was
relatively flat as well.
In 2016
women were 21% of the hires in tech roles while Black and Hispanic or Latinx
candidates made up 3% and 4% of all new hires, respectively.
Google’s
overall workforce is 56% White, 35% Asian, 4% two or more races, 4% Hispanic or
Latinx, 2% Black and less than 1% American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. On its report, Google groups the last two
categories together under the heading “Other.”
According
to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report on diversity
in the tech industry, tech firms hire a larger share of White, Asian, and male
employees than the private sector overall.
Black
and Hispanic or Latinx workers make up 14.4% and 13.9% of the private workforce
overall, respectively. In the tech sector as a whole they are 7.4% and 8% of
employees.
Women
are also underrepresented, making up just 36% of tech employees compared to 48%
of all workers.
Human
resources the management of an organization’s policies and procedures relating
to its employees has historically been seen as a somewhat insular task. But
with the rise of globalization, Work force diversity, the world is becoming a
smaller place. Business, even small ones, are now connected across cultural and
geographic boundaries. As a result, global trends are affecting human resources
management within organizations of all sizes.
References
http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/196467/human-resource-management-in-the-context-of-a-global-company Accessed on 31st Oct, 2017 at
10.02 AM
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/15-current-trends-human-resource-management-rutaihwa-aristides-andrew Accessed on 31st Oct, 2017 at 11.58 AM
http://fortune.com/2017/06/29/google-2017-diversity-report
Accessed on 01st Nov , 2017 at 9.22 AM
