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Global Issues in Human Resource Management and Their Significance to Information Organizations and Information Professionals

Global Issues in Human Resource Management and Their Significance to Information Organizations and Information Professionals

Gail Munde
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781615206018|ISBN10: 1615206019|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616922573|EISBN13: 9781615206025
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-601-8.ch008
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Munde, Gail. "Global Issues in Human Resource Management and Their Significance to Information Organizations and Information Professionals." Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management, edited by Elisabeth Pankl, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 157-169. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-601-8.ch008

APA

Munde, G. (2010). Global Issues in Human Resource Management and Their Significance to Information Organizations and Information Professionals. In E. Pankl, D. Theiss-White, & M. Bushing (Eds.), Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management (pp. 157-169). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-601-8.ch008

Chicago

Munde, Gail. "Global Issues in Human Resource Management and Their Significance to Information Organizations and Information Professionals." In Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management, edited by Elisabeth Pankl, Danielle Theiss-White, and Mary C. Bushing, 157-169. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-601-8.ch008

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Abstract

This chapter examines global challenges identified in contemporary human resource management literature, and discusses selected challenges as they relate to information organizations and information professionals. The challenges include skills shortages, talent management, shifting demographics, work/life balance, and managing intergenerational and intercultural work groups. Approaches to these challenges are discussed as reported in the literature of human resource management, library management, and information technology, as well as those suggested by the author. The chapter may be of interest to employers, managers and supervisors of information professionals; emerging, entry-level and senior information professionals at all career levels and in all types of information organizations; human resource managers in all types of information organizations.

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