THE NEW HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS Introduction Changes is human resource management practices, and in what employers expect from their human resource managers. We will look some specific: Human Resource Management Yesterday and Today: • In the earliest firms, they first took over hiring and firing from supervisors, ran the payroll department, and administered benefits plans. • Today, we have seen that trends like globalization, indebtedness, and technology confront employers with new challenges, such as squeezing more profits from operations.
They focus more on Strategic, Big picture issues: • Today Human Resource Managers are more involved in longer term, strategic “big picture “. • Strategic Human Resource Management means formulating and executing human resource policies and practices that produces the employee competencies and behaviors the company needs to achieve its strategic aims.
They Use new ways to Provide Transactional Services : • Todays HR Managers must be skilled at offering transactional HR services in innovative ways. • For example : they outsource more benefits administration and safety training to outside vendors. • As another example : more employers are installing their own internal social networking sites. This internal social networking site lets its employees share experiences, suggestions, and advising without exposing their comments to the wider world.