MEMORANDUM

TO: FROM: DATE: RE: Todd Martin, Manager Nakayla Reese 3/6/2014 Top Challenges of Human Resources

I am writing this memo to inform you on some interesting information that I have researched for you concerning some of the top challenges with in the field of Human Resources. The following bullet points will be a brief analysis concerning my research on this topic and my recommendations to better solve these issues, if possible. While searching for some of the top challenges with in the Human Resources field, I came across two reoccurring challenges that seem to be an issue in Human Resources. The two issues that I kept coming across was the development of leaders and maintaining employees. These seem to be the top issues that the Human Resources field is facing and will continue to face in the future.

DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERS Human Resource executives are most concerned with the development of future leaders because they are afraid that the new generation coming up will not have the skill set to be affective in leadership roles. It is critical to have strong leaders in Human Resources because you have to maintain a culture right for employees and also take care of the behind the scenes aspect of things as well. To better resolve this concern that can later become a problem, companies are sending their employees that are in leadership roles to leadership training seminars. In these leadership training seminars, they will learn how to develop their qualities as a leader and how to become a better leader in the workplace (forbes.com, Meghan Biro).

MAINTAINING EMPLOYEES According to shrm.org, 59% of Human Resource executives believe that retaining and rewarding the best employees will be one of the greatest challenges faced in the next 10 years. When employees are not happy with their jobs, they tend to blame their unsatisfactory on the people who are in leadership roles. To resolve the situation of employees retaining, leaders have come up with several different things to satisfy employees with their jobs. These things are: providing flexible work arrangements, maintaining a culture of trust and communication,providing employees with opportunities for career advancement, (shrm.org) and many more just to name a few. With these incentives and leadership working towards creating an atmosphere where employees are happy and satisfied, the workplace environment would be more successful and productive.

In conclusion, the development of leaders and maintaining employees will always be two of the main challenges with in the field of Human Resources. Even though these issues will still be around in years to come, there are many different solutions that I have provided you with in the paragraphs above. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read this memo. Also there is a brief Works Cited page included to ensure the credibility of my sources. If you have any questions or concerns, contact me at 313-303-3131 or via email nreese@umich.edu. Thank you for your time.

enc. Works Cited

WORKS CITED

1.Biro, Meghan M. "5 Great Challenges Ahead For HR And Leaders." Forbes. SHRM, 11 Nov. 2012. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghanbiro/ 2012/11/11/5-greatest-challenges-ahead-for-hr-and-leaders/>. 2."Future HR Challenges and Talent Management Tactics." Shrm.org. Society of Human Resource Management, Nov. 2012. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. < http://www.shrm.org/Research/SurveyFindings/Articles/Documents/SHRMChallenge-HR-2022-Spotlight.pdf >.

forbes.com
-objective summary: Authors name: Meghan Biro Title of article: 5 Great Challenges Ahead for HR and Leaders Source title: Forbes magazine - main points: The challenges of HR and leaders, according to this article, are not having leaders that are qualified enough to do the job of leading a department. Another issue that was brought up in this article was creating a culture- like atmosphere where everyone can fit in and work together without feeling like they are being attacked or left out. Communicating, accountability, and rewarding emotional intelligence were also some of the challenges that were most discovered to be evident for people in HR. - From the things that I have found in this source, the issues that i have chosen to discuss in my memo was the number one issue of leadership and how it is lacking and what we can do to help prevent that issue. Another thing that I chose was creating a culture like atmosphere which corresponds to my next source about employee retention and things that will satisfy employees in the work field.

shrm.org
- objective summary:
Authors name: unknown (shrm website) Title of article: SHRM Research Spotlight: Future HR Challenges and Talent Management Tactics Source title: Society of Human Resources Management -main points: This article tells more of the statistics of the different challenges that occur with in the Human Resources field. This article also touches on the concern of leadership being the number one issue of human resources executive. This article touches more on the employee retention issue. It gives many different suggestions to help correct that problem by providing flexible working hours, maintaining a culture of communication, and many other things that the article talks about.

- From this article, I used most of the employee retention statistics and things to help better
describe that issue within the Human Resources community. I also used the statistic concerning leadership to help with the information from the source above to give it more credibility.

- The points that are similar between both of my sources are the points concerning leadership and employees, the different statistics concerning both, and some of the solutions they have

come up with to help better the situation in the future. A point that is extremely unrelated to the topic that I chose to do my memo on was in the shrm.org article which was related to investment challenges of organizations. My memo was focused on more of the relational issues between the employee and leadership and how to better resolve the problem for the future.