Question

What do you regard as the most pressing questions HRM should tackle? Why do you see them as most urgent?

Online discussion on why “Context” is important.

Answer 1

The biggest challenge faced by HRM in today’s day and age can be considered as diversity, its management, its acceptance and understanding the need to manage its processes with local in mind.

Unless we are talking about managing culture in a foreign subsidiary, we can say that diversity especially in local teams which are culturally diverse and from different parts of the world have the most implication over the HRM and its functional approach towards it.

For an HRM management the expectancy, adherence to local needs, laws as well as compliance becomes necessary and therefore, the aspect being able to meet the needs of such a time while adhering to the standards becomes a challenge for the HRM. The context here is that a diverse team would have a different outlook, perspective as well as the different state of mind, skillset, ethnic beliefs, morality, and ethical understanding. Their needs would also be different in extension. We can say that this would provide to be a challenge for the HRM to manage since the now also need to focus upon individual needs while keeping the scope of the team process viable.

This is why I believe, diversity management, especially when we consider it in the local context can be the hardest to manage for the HRM, and, therefore, needs consideration.