Most Important Topics on Human Resource Management for Managers
As society changes HR-Departments are confronted with a decline in population, a steady decline in working population, lower birth rates and longer life expectancies. As effect they have to cope with decreasing manpower and certain shortages of labour as well as aging workforces. To secure the companies’ competitive advantage and output capabilities and to vanquish these issues Demographic Management has to be positioned as a strategic objective within the companies. At present HR-Departments do not identify changes in demography as an issue affecting them. As a precondition for successful Demographic Management the employee structure must be analyzed and the intended future structure should be defined. Measurements to prevail over demographic issues are demographic leadership training, age-adapted incentive systems, workplace layout, junior employee recruiting and flexible working-time models. Using these and further techniques make it possible to overcome all threats and secures the company’s future. Partially layers of Demographic Management are also practiced as parts of Health Management, continuing learning or Know-How transfers.
Work-Life Balance has the aim to establish a well-balanced relationship between work and private life. Money and success are not the main goals of a working person, moreover there is a need to harmonise the private life with their working activities. There are several Work-Life Balance methods in order to “(...) enable a successful career under consideration of private, social, cultural and healthy factors”. Through an integrated Work-Life Balance both, the employee and the employer, have certain benefits. For example employees can have more time for family and leisure and also for health protection. Further they get more possibilities from the company to develop themselves and their career. The company can increase its productivity and rate of return through a better motivated and balanced workforce and strengthens thereby the
Work-Life Balance has the aim to establish a well-balanced relationship between work and private life. Money and success are not the main goals of a working person, moreover there is a need to harmonise the private life with their working activities. There are several Work-Life Balance methods in order to “(...) enable a successful career under consideration of private, social, cultural and healthy factors”. Through an integrated Work-Life Balance both, the employee and the employer, have certain benefits. For example employees can have more time for family and leisure and also for health protection. Further they get more possibilities from the company to develop themselves and their career. The company can increase its productivity and rate of return through a better motivated and balanced workforce and strengthens thereby the