Financial Post - The race for skilled workers; The competition for top employees is heating up even as companies eschew old training methods
Human resource management in the 21st century presents challenges not addressed by conventional thinking about recruitment, staffing and retention. The days when workers spent 40 or more years with one employer are gone, and employees have more mobility, and access to more information, than ever before, forcing Canadian executives to adapt to meet these challenges…
"Technology is creating information, but also information overload," says Animesh Animesh, assistant professor of information systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. "Now we have different technology to filter the information to make it faster for people to find relevant information." Attracting and retaining managers and staff that thrive in these conditions is the core function of HR today.
