1. Trends affecting HRM Chapter 2 Resource Person: Furqan-ul-haq Siddiqui
References:
Web resources
Organization Theory and Design (Richard L. Daft)
Strategic Human Resource Management by Jeffrey A. Mello
Strategic Human Resource Management by Charles R. Greer
Resource Person: Furqan-ul-haq Siddiqui

2. Open System- Open systems refer to systems that interact with or are effected by external environment.
Closed System-
Learning Organizations- A learning organization is the business term given to a company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself. 

3. Major Factors Affecting HRM
Technological Advancement
Demographics and Diversity
Organization
Globalization
Legislation
Other factors

4. “By 1976 Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of camera sales in America. Until the 1990s it was regularly rated one of the world’s five most valuable brands”. In fact, In 1996, Kodak was ranked the world’s fourth most-valuable brand behind Disney, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s….
In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.
Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they got bankrupt.
What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years – and most people don’t see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again?

5. Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.
Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.
Most car companies might become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

6. Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan. Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, and the third-largest information technology company by revenue.
Foxconn is primarily a contract manufacturer and its clients include major American, Finnish, Japanese, and Canadian electronics and information technology companies. Notable products that the company manufactures include BlackBerry, Dell, Samsung, Intel, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Nokia and Wii U.
Number of employees 1.3 million (2015) Net Income US$4.106 billion (2014)

7. Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots
25 May 2016 From BBC Technology
Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots
One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post.
"We are applying robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing technologies to replace repetitive tasks previously done by employees, and through training, also enable our employees to focus on higher value-added elements in the manufacturing process, such as research and development, process control and quality control.
"It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who is inefficient, making $15.

8. Issue for Integrating new Technologies
A severance package is pay and benefits an employee receives when he or she leaves employment at a company. 

9. Impact of Technologies on Organizations
Telecommuting, remote work, telework, or teleworking is a work arrangement in which employees do not commute to a central place of work. A person who telecommutes is known as a "telecommuter," "teleworker," and sometimes as a "home-sourced," or "work-at-home" employee.

10. Workforce Demographic Changes
The “Graying” of the Workforce
Note: Dates are approximate and there is some overlap because there are no standard definitions for when a generation begins and ends.

11. Workforce Demographic Changes
Baby Boomers (1945–1964)
In excess supply in middle management ranks
HR challenge is to manage “plateaued” workers
Gen X (1961–1981)
Are career bottlenecked by the Boomers
Who have skills in high demand are doing and will do well
Gen Y (1975–1995)
Have life-long exposure to technology and constant change
Seek self-control, independence, personal growth, creativity
Are not focused on job security or long-term employment.

12. Negative Aspects of Older Workers
Perceived resistance to change by older workers.
Increased health-care costs for senior workers
Blocking advancement opportunities for younger workers
Higher wage and salary costs for senior workers
Positive Aspects of Older Workers
As productive or more productive than younger workers
Have more organizational loyalty than younger workers
Possess broader industry knowledge and professional networks

14. Cabinet division proposes extension in retirement age upto 62 years
April 6, 2016
Cabinet division proposes extension in retirement age upto 62 years
Islamabad: The cabinet division has decided to send proposal for extension in retirement age by two years to Prime Minister (PM) for approval. According to the purpose if the retirement age  limit is extended upto 62 years it will save at least Rs 200 million in national exchequer.
The cabinet division further said that due to retirement of 5000 to employees, financial burden of Rs 100 million to 150 million is shifted to national exchequer every year. Government has to incur expenses of Rs 100 million on account of payment of salaries to those who are appointed in place of retried employees every year. Government is spending Rs 30 billion on account of salaries and pension of the employees per annum.
If approval is accorded  by PM then law will be got enacted from parliament and the announcement in this respect can be made in the budget proposals for next fiscal year 2017.

15. Career
Many professionals assume their work path is predetermined by their career choice or by their organization.
For example, a person trained to be an accountant may see himself or herself only as an accountant who, after completing their professional training.
Following one career path may be limiting for some people.
You may find yourself meeting the needs of their employer, but not your own personal career goals.

16. Traditional Career Stages
Exploration Stage- A career stage that usually ends in mid-twenties as one makes the transition from school to work.
Involves:
trying out different fields
discovering likes and dislikes
forming attitudes toward work and social relationship patterns
Includes school and early work experiences, such as internships

17. Establishment Stage- Stage in which one begins to search for work and finds a first job.
Includes:
search for work
getting first job
getting evidence of “success” or “failure”
Takes time and energy to find a “niche” and to “make your mark”.
Mid Career Stage- A career stage marked by continuous improvement in performance, leveling off in performance or beginning decline of performance. Person may face threats to his/her position from younger, better-trained and more aggressive employees.

18. Plateaued mid-career- Plateaued but may not failed in mid career
Plateaued mid-career- Plateaued but may not failed in mid career. Even can be more productive, committed, loyal but not ambitious as climbers.
Late Career- Stage in which individuals are no longer learning about their jobs nor expected to outdo levels of performance from previous years.
Successful “elder states persons” can enjoy being respected for their judgment. Good resource for teaching others.
Those who have declined may experience job insecurity.
Off the job life increases in importance.

19. Decline Stage- The final stage in one’s career, usually marked by retirement/death.
May be most difficult for those who were most successful at earlier stages.
Today’s longer life spans and legal protections for older workers open the possibility for continued work contributions, either paid or volunteer.

21. Protean Career
The career of the 21st century is protean, a career that is driven by the person, not the organization, and that will be reinvented by the person from time to time, as the person and the environment change.
The protean career is a process which the person, not the organization, is managing. It consists of all of the person's varied experiences in education, training, work in several organizations, changes in occupational field, etc.
The Protean Career is a concept that requires everyone to 1) monitor and assess the job market; 2) anticipate future developments, trends, and industry shifts, 3) gain the necessary skills, qualifications, relationships, and assets to meet the shifts, and 4) adapt quickly to thrive in an ever-changing workplace.

22. Strategic Implications

23. New Employee/Workplace Dynamics
Emphasis on the Management of Professionals
Establishment of separate career tracks
Technical/Professional, Managerial /Administrative
Use of project teams
Less Employee Loyalty, More Loyal to Self
Staying with employers for shorter periods; demanding more meaningful work and involvement in organizational decisions
Increased Personal and Family Dynamic Effects
Nuclear families, dual-career couples, and commuter couples
Increased Nontraditional Work Relationships
Part-time, consulting, and temporary employment flexibility
Outsourcing and entrepreneurial opportunities

24. Dual-Career Couples - An issue related to increased feminization of the workforce is the number of dual-career families. The number of couples having two wage earners has increased rapidly, having passed the two-thirds point more than a decade ago. In order to accommodate such families, many employers offer support services such as “sick child” care programs and day care.
Commuter couples are a subset of dual-career couples who live apart in separate residences while both partners pursue careers.
Nuclear Family- a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.
Extended family…..?
Added Worker effect
The added worker effect refers to an increase in the labor supply of married women when their husbands become unemployed. 

25. Managing Workplace Diversity
Understanding and Appreciating Diversity
Is critical to effectively marketing to ethnic and minority groups
Is promoted by having a diverse workforce at all organization levels
Helps ensure that hiring and promotion decisions are unbiased by person differences
Diversity Management Programs/Initiatives
Must be integrated with organization’s mission and objectives
Help key decision makers identify diversity’s benefits to the organization
Make critical decisions about implementing the optimal program/initiative contingent on the organization and its people, mission and culture.
Race is associated with biology, whereas ethnicity is associated with culture.

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28. Wheel of Life
Work-Life Balance

29. Don’t just have career or academic goals
Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions. Don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a prepaid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? …It's OK, Bunk few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, take leave from work, fall in love, little fight with your spouse... We are people, not programmed devices..! "Don't be serious, enjoy Life

30. Legislative Trends
The protection against harassment of women at the workplace act 2010
April 2014 labor agreement in France means that employees must ignore their bosses' work s once they are out of the office and relaxing at home – even on their smartphones

31. Strategic Business Issues Affecting HRM
Reengineering- Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business process to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance such as cost, service, and speed.

32. A Dutch dairy cooperative is set to buy out a Pakistani food giant with an investment of around $460 million, in what would amount to the largest private sector takeover by a foreign firm in the country’s history.

33. HR Technology The rate of technological change is staggering.
The development of technology has created new roles for HR professionals but also places additional pressures on them to keep abreast of the technology.
With the increased technology sophistication has come the ability to design a more useful human resource information system (HRIS), which is any organized approach for obtaining relevant and timely information on which to base HR decisions.
Cloud computing, a means of providing software and data via the Internet.

34. Globalization
Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.
Challenges for HRM
Managing diversity of workforce
Managing pressures for more labor rights in third world countries.
Management of Laws Across Jurisdictions
Managing Outsourced and temporary workforce
Downsizing the workforce
Coping with flexible working hour
Great emphasis on training
Third world is a phrase commonly used to describe a developing nation, but actually started as term used to describe a country's allegiance. A Third World country is a country whose views are not aligned with NATO and capitalism or the Soviet Union and communism. The use of the term Third World started during the Cold War and was used to identify which of three categories the countries of the world aligned with. The First World meant that you aligned withe NATO and capitalism, and the Second World meant you supported Communism and the Soviet Union.