Challenges and Benefits

Writing the blog on Managing people in the global context was great experiential learning process. The subject itself was interesting, engaging and gave new insights into the process of Human Resources Management in a Global Scenario. 

The dynamism, complexities and challenges of managing people at work were understood indepth through the process of research, from numerous sources such as journals from professional bodies such as CIPD (UK) and SHRM (USA) and other reading material expanded the knowledge and appreciation of the HRM processes global the problems and trends that are influencing the discipline of Human Resource Management at large in local and global context.

Perhaps the challenge is managing this single resource in any organization as opposed to other resource cannot be underscore by many manager HR or Marketing. This is the rationale for shifting or cascading HR to frontline managers so that they will be better gear to serve their people at work. 

HR it self is faced with numerous factors that influence work, workforce and workplace add to this the global economic challenges, the fierce competition, the global financial crisis and political volatilities of nation states. On the other side of the coin is the problems of technological advancements in every industry, science and research and development all of which will influence and change work, workplace and workforce in the next decade leading to unemployment, change into nature and type of jobs, careers and professions. 

There is today online legal advice, medical advice and less mundane how  to or do it yourself tips and trick even to international cuisine to in a more dangerous situations on how to Print a working model of your favorite automatic firearm, the perils of modern technology development.

In the positive side the learning outcome and experience was amazing in the one particular area that improved is the writing skills in the last three months or so. Others are critical thinking and reflective learning are experience that will have a life time influence.

The opportunity to build networks learn from diverse and multi skilled teams as with new colleagues in the class and the exposure to subjects such as leadership and strategy is important for the career.