Human Resources in the 21st Century

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Summary: Human Resources in the 21st Century
Review: Just like Coaching for Leadership, Human Resources in the 21st Century is a MUST read and should be an ACTIVE resource for leading edge HR Professionals and Service Providers who want to (positively) impact people and performance and provide value to the business.

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Summary: Balancing HR? Reality v Fantasy, Emotional v Economic,
Review: My recent attendence at the HRO conference in New York only substantiated my growing belief that in the absence of strong HR leadership, the United States economy will soon feel the harsh reality of a population isolated and devalued by agressive competition, and incapable of finding the required trust to consolidate and unify to grow security of life in the future.

Above economic value, lies the rewards of emotional value(EQ) being trust in relationship, unconditional love, emotional strength, social esteem, trust in ability, self esteem, social security, creative value, balanced health, and every core competence that a true HR leader should represent.

In choosing to write on HR in the 21st Century, any realistic leader who fails to identify the behavioural implications of an insecure population incapable of identifying a secure future is only seeking recognition for the insecurity they embody. To outsource an individual's cultural life purpose identifies appalling leadership judgements who for an immediate comparitive monetary advantage effectively destroys all hope of realising future growth by growing mistrust and emotional weakness having deserted the real value the workforce creates in the community. In devaluing an employee to a third world equivalent, does the leader realise the employee whose job has disappeared is now incapable of emotionally contributing a purposeful contribution to the community? The same community our children require the freedom to experiment, fantasise and discover essential adult skills while developing physiological security, and after finding personal security, the community adolescents rely on to emotionally rehearse to develop social esteem and value independence, the community selected out of all other communties because of the mutual bond felt with other like minded members who collectively share in the hope of securing a better quality of life in the future.

Civilisations were built on a common premise to share in the rewards of social connection and to develop a secure future. Value was defined by creatively interacting to diversify skills to express specialist value above primary value. Life begins and ends in the community, where happiness is defined in relativity to others, where we emotionally share in identifying with life meaning, and where organisations appeal to community needs to develop flourishing, viable communities to secure customer allegiences and future growth.

Economic value holds no meaning if it fails to add meaning or enhance life in the community. Organisations who have outsourced their workforce to India have effectively committed economic suicide. Agile, socially responsible companies will soon discover the value in appealing to community needs. In realising employees add a distinct character to a community's culture, and encourages value growth in a specialist set of skills and emotional associations. When combined and shared with other specialist skills, the developed value supports community growth and wealth far beyond a productive, materialist value.

Civilisations defined the human ability to emotionally identify and cooperate for social value. If we cannot share in the experience of creating and defining life in the community then we will never realise life rewards. To feel insecure in one's community is to merely exist. A community without purpose feels the stress associated with cultural insecurity and social anxiety. Globalisation has disconnected communities from recognising and developing the security of a purposeful future. Economic Man has fractured and disabled the only means of securing future growth. Without sharing value amongst the community, the value of accumulated wealth is but a mere fantasy in the bank account of the beholder who is effectively hoarding dead value.

Strong leadership needs to show a willingness to cast a realistic view on what the objective purpose of Globalisation is, and what will define the end of the outward flow of jobs. HR's failure to define the significance of cultural purpose on developing human value and the need to actively create security of life is the fundamental cause of every problem in our world today. Cultural insecurity is felt by every person and leader who fails to actively work to secure a meaningful life in the future.

In omitting behavioural value, emotional intelligence and personal development, this book is only fit for the Artifically Intelligent transactional HR type who typically disrupt the development of strategic value. The independent creative value of transformational HR leadership is the one asset in short supply in a world built on conformist views who cannot express true value.