HR Transformation: People Management in Digital Era
HR Transformation
People Management in Digital Era
On the pages of 21st century, rules of
success for organization are being redefined and rewritten' as
technological change has dramatically reshaped the business environment across
the globe with much force on strategic value to business. Globally, Human
Resource Management is transforming with complex initiatives to bring top-cited
change in respective industry. The implementation of cloud HR solutions,
intelligent automation, process automation, and usage of HR metric for HR
operating model and strategic models are the modern practices towards
transformation of People Management in major organization across the
global.
The role of HR is changing from traditional
system to value-added systems through process automation, intelligent automation
and instrumentation of capabilities. In this time, strategic
value of people management is now being considered decisive change agent and
people management capabilities of organization are thus important for business
partner role for smarter decision making. The global HR Transformation
Survery-2018 conducted by KPMG( a global
financial institution) has revealed that HR Data analytics and HR operations
across the global has seen significant changes thereby focusing on talent
management and talent acquisition or on boarding. The modern HR initiatives are
either focusing on reengineering HR process and refocusing HR business partner
roles. However, short coming of HR technologies and inadequate change
management have been key challenges for HR transformation in most of
organization. Some of the technologies do not fit with the organizational
culture or business process, few of them are flexible for customization according
to need and nature of business and industry at large. Despite all this, the
biggest area of investment by half of the organizations have been Human
Resource Management System (HRMS) with focus on cloud and premise systems in
order to deliver value-added services and improve availability of management
information.
The HR transformation has also witnessed
disruptors in many forms. The drive change or be changed notion of today
business environment requires to view today’s disruption as a unique
opportunity to transform their business models and driver new levels of growth
and success. The technological disruption and ever change demand disruptions of
market are to be taken positive for business more but, for this, such transformation
is required to have strong, proactive, and information leadership. The
leadership is expected to pursue initiatives that shall be uncomfortable but inevitable
for organization success. The digital
area of modern organization will continue to unfold around the organization
with inevitable forces of change to initiate strategic transformation initiatives.
Therefore, it is need of time to redesign traditional HR operation model via fully
integrated change management strategies. The enhanced level of engaged employees’
workforce mobility for diversified business nature, smarter decision making
with HR analytics and better work efficiency are aligned now for the age of HR transformation
and implementation of modern HR initiatives.
Apart from initiatives, major challenges faced
by HR function are to be given due consideration. The foremost challenge is
cost/funding for new HR initiatives based on automation and technologies.
Organization in general have limitation for funding to bring changes in processes
and models. Some of them have also lack of appetite budget and skills to make
required process standardization. They are of the view to initiate when it is
dire need with reference to survival. Furthermore, it is also revealed that
Inconsistent and non-standard business processes are also making automation impractical.
People in HR are coming across disruption with this regard as well and find it
hard to implement full automation at all.
Increasingly interconnected world is required
to embrace uncertainty as a valuable new opportunity by pursuing innovative technology,
skills and capabilities in order to deliver crucial new competitive advantage.
The digital disruption and rapidly changing business models in organization are
to be taken with great deal for transformation for growth and productivity. The
forward-looking organization are making their HR transformed with best initiatives
and forces of change for creating competitive advantage through people management.
There is strong need to call for action on the HR transformation with effective
e and detailed change management across the board in business or organization.
If organization are to compete, survive and win,
there is no room for delay. Being position for future, success demands action
today. The forces of change are here, leaders need to drive change or be
changed, shape or be shaped……………………………………
Mr. Shoukat Ali Abbasi is a HR professional with professional work experience of almost 8 Years in HR & OD in complex and multi culture environment in different organizations across the country. Mr. Shoukat Ali has been a lead Trainer for various sectors like; corporate sector, social sector, and public sector. His area of interest are Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Employee Relations, and Organizational Development. He is currently working as Deputy Registrar-HRM with Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan.
Mr. Shoukat Ali Abbasi is a HR professional with professional work experience of almost 8 Years in HR & OD in complex and multi culture environment in different organizations across the country. Mr. Shoukat Ali has been a lead Trainer for various sectors like; corporate sector, social sector, and public sector. His area of interest are Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Employee Relations, and Organizational Development. He is currently working as Deputy Registrar-HRM with Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan.
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