The Vehement,Volatile,Value-seeking and Viral: The New Era of Employees and Why HR Preparedness and Future-skilling Is Key to a Healthy Business Enterprise

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For a human resource professional, training and learning are a way of life. They have to constantly re-invent themselves to tread the water. Understanding the needs of the new generation (Gen Z) of employees, charting new initiatives for them while making business sense of those initiatives is essential for the human resource managers of today. A changing world brings with it different perspectives on employee morale and new-age challenges (such as the abuse of technology and social media play). Positive mental health and its impact on a stable, sustainable and productive workforce is another critical aspect of human resource management. This paper is based on the journalistic construction of human resources and perspectives based on personal experience. The aim is to provide a basic view on human resources preparedness to meet the challenges of tomorrow by analysing the operations of yesterday and recalibrating the workings of today.

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Human resource management Generation Z employee morale mental health future-skilling

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