Outline
Thesis Statement: Advances in technology along with shifts in the nations' social structure heavily impact the workplace environment, creating a need for new management models in Human Resources.
I. The Changing Workplace
A. An Historical Perspective of Jobs in America
B. Jobs in the 21st Century
II. Identifying Corporate Needs
A. The Emergence of Human Resource Management as a Component of General Management.
B. Corporate Expectations
III. Developing Human Resource Policy
A. What HRM Professionals Have to Say
IV. Identifying Worker Needs
A. Family VS Work
B. The Working Environment
C. Benefits and Compensation
V. Where to From Here? - HRM Models for Innovation
A. Motivation Theory
B. Alternate Work Systems - a Comparrison Table
This paper is written from the perspective that Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are continually evolving to meet the changes of dynamic work environments. New technologies, increasingly rapid exchanges of information, social paradigm shifts and the restructuring of family systems contribute heavily to the need to find and apply methods of HRM that meet the needs of industry, workers and consumers. To do so effectively, vision and creativity are required in addition to on-going awareness of the bottom line.
The Changing Workplace
At th ...