What are the challenges of Human Resources Management?

CHALLENGES OF HRM

Strategic human resources management refers to an overall direction of an organization in which organization wishes to achieve its objectives through the use of people/human capital. In order to achieve goals, an organization needs people as an important input with a great role to play to reach targets.

However there are various challenges that hinder the strategic human resources towards managing organization. These are as follows;

1. People are diverse.

Efforts of bringing people together and shape them in order to achieve objectives is subject to people's attitudes, behavior and culture and this may hinder achieving organizational objectives. For the organization to achieve its objectives, people as key players have to be aware of the objectives which an organization intends to achieve. In pursuing their daily activities, employees should ensure meeting objective of the organization.

2. HRM is not considered as a responsibility for each manager

Training, motivating and improving employee morale starts at departmental level. Each manager in his line of functions has to ensure various matters relating to employees are handled according. Each manager should ensure his/her staffs are well trained and developed, rewarded and compensated accordingly. In this case, Human resources departments are getting enough cooperation from departmental levels.

3. Treating people as variable cost instead of human capital

Employees need to be valued properly as one of the assets an organization has. Skilled, motivated and experienced employees need to be retained by an organization because are likely to add value to an organization and can lead an organization easily achieve its objective. Employees have more to play in order an organization to achieve its objectives. In this case, an organization has to ensure employees are trained, developed, rewarded, motivated and retained. Some organizations are likely to fall or fail to achieve strategic competitive advantage due to lack of skilled and experienced employees.

4. Measuring worker productivity

In some cases (team works/groups) it is difficult to measure worker productivity in order to decide as to whether to identify training needed or to keep rewarding and motivating them. For some works to be completed, involves more than one people who need to work together and in this case, it is difficult to measure productivity of each employee methodologies of measuring productivity in cases of qualitative targets is a challenge towards strategic human resources management.