In order to awaken reflection among attendees\u2014HR managers of some of our most important customers\u2014the day began with an introduction by Professor Alvarez de Mon on the figure of the HR manager and how this has developed in latter times.<\/p>\n
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Some of the new functions associated with the figure of the HR manager <\/strong>today include “an agent who is essential for keeping management in organizations in touch with reality”, “predisposed towards constant change” and especially the “transmission of culture and values”; at the end of the day these are the roots that build and sustain an organization.<\/p>\n On the current challenges of the HR function<\/strong>, the professor began by pointing out the need for HR professionals to focus their efforts on what is appealing about their role, in creating, designing and building activities that add value their companies.<\/p>\n As one of the pending matters of Spanish companies, Alvarez de Mon underscored diversity management,<\/strong> construed as managing uncertainty and complexity beyond the gender issue.<\/p>\n Recruitment <\/strong>is one of the great challenges for these professionals and one of the most critical issues for both companies and the HR function. For Alvarez de Mon, “It\u2019s surprising that this process is often delegated to a third party, as the art of interviewing is a key task a company must undertake.” He also stressed the importance of evaluation<\/strong>, as it is inconceivable to manage without performance appraisals, even though horizons must be expanded in today\u2019s processes which are often complex and difficult to implement.<\/p>\n On training<\/strong>, it is essential to choose employees who value and above all take advantage of such actions, although we must be careful with the term \u201chigh potential\u201d because a healthy organization is one that takes care of all its employees, \u201cmanaging is about including everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n Onboarding new generations raises another question, whether there is there engagement in organizations.<\/strong> Today individualism rules; companies should allow personal development, but not at their expense. Then again companies are often subject to overworking which undermines the personal lives of employees; this is something to be avoided as work-life balance is vital.<\/p>\n After the interesting reflections made by Alvarez de Mon, attendees raised a number of questions which were answered by the professor, something that turned out to be very enriching for this workshop:<\/p>\n Aside from all these questions, it is worth highlighting some interesting thoughts that arose during the course of the workshop:<\/p>\n In order to awaken reflection among attendees\u2014HR managers of some of our most important customers\u2014the day began with an introduction…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,344],"tags":[254,258,278,240,289,222,268,224,264,265],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","category-talent-management","tag-employee-engagement","tag-hr-culture","tag-hr-department","tag-hr-innovation","tag-hr-manager","tag-leadership","tag-recruitment","tag-talent-management","tag-talent-retention","tag-training-management"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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