Question

What do you think is the trend in the domestic and international labor market that presents the greater challenge to HR professionals

Answer 1

The trend in the domestic and international labor market that presents the greater challenge to HR professionals is dealing with Diversity initiatives in global environment:

Role of human Resources department in aligning diversity initiatives with business objectives is one great challenge in today’s business:

1. Diversity: Diversity in an organization means a group of people with difference in socio, economic and political background working together for a common objective.

2. Creating awareness: One of the main roles of HR is to create awareness about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion in an organization. Diverse organizations has better possibility for increased production/outcome due to diversified thinking’s and this comes as a challenge

3. Buy in from Leadership team : Convincing the leadership team on the diversity initiatives and to get a go ahead from them for further activities is another big challenge

4. Recruitment: Human resource team should also come up with the recruitment strategy for diversity hiring.

            Example: % of diversity and inclusion to be achieved in an organization.

5. Training: There would be many diversified people working in an organization with cultural difference, political difference and socio economic difference. Hence a training session for all employees is a must to know how to work hand in hand.