Changing Roles of HR, Work Place and Workforce

Scholars and experts are off the view that HR roles, designations are changing to meet the challenges faced by HR professional’s new designations such as Chief HR Officer, (CHRO). HR Generalist and HR partners are getting to be popular in the HRM function reflecting the nature and type of work conducted by HR professionals. Other new HR roles such as Compensation Specialist, Talent Manager are increasing in use. (Megatrends, 2013) These new titles as per researcher are arising as work as change with automation, increasing influence of Artificial Intelligence, Connectivity, Automation, and Robotics.

 Deloitte’s suggest that almost every job has been reinvented the work environment itself has changed in contemporary times. Use of disruptive technologies, mobile devices are the order of the day (Schwartz, Collins, Stockton, Wagner, and Walsh, 2017).  On the other hand, the work place itself is changing for instance offices are becoming more modern, with ambience like hotels, GYM’s, Crib and Rest Facilities. For example, Google Campus has food in all floors and a restaurant which is like a five-star hotel. People today tell commute and work from remote locations enable by virtual connectivity.   

Workforce is changing too more knowledge-based workforce, working with technology, virtual teams, contingent teams working from remote locations and telecommuting are in the increase. Although today some of these flexible work forces are going call backed to office for meeting today.

The technological changes have influence the workplace and workforce in contemporary work place including in processes, procedures and systems. Use of ICT is the order of the day and more tasks and roles are computer based or online for instance as in recruitment is online using company websites or Job boards and social media platforms. (Ma, and Ye, 2015). 

Experts are of the view that in the next ten years or so many new jobs will be reinvented and industry leaders and experts cannot even predict the new jobs that will be created in the next decade. Composition, dynamics and diversity is changing too in the workforce today. Further work diversity as in foreign nationals participating in work even in developing countries are changing as in Sri Lanka (Jaldeen, 2016)

Reference:

1. Schwartz, J.,  Collins, L.,  Stockton, H., Wagner,D.,  and  Walsh, B., (2017) Rewriting the rules for the digital age, 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends. Deliotte University Press.

2. Megatrends (2013) the trends shaping work and work lives, CIPD Megatrends. CIPD UK

3. Ma, L., and Ye, M., (2015) The Role of Electronic Human Resource Management in Contemporary Human Resource Management Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2015, 3, 71-78

4. Jaldeen, R.M, (2016) Megatrends; Human Resources Management 2020, Published by The Training Partnership. Series 1, Volume 1, 2016.