Discuss challenges facing in HR practices.

There are various challenges being faced in HR practices discussed in the following.

Lack of Trained Human Resource

        According to the source, this is one of the major challenges involved in while facing HR practices in the era of digital period. The lack of trained human resource is or says unavailability of trained resource which can be using the technology in the effective way to conclude the better strategies and avoid the risks before the time. It is unfortunate that not much managers are conversant with digital technologies and even not good at it who knows how to be using this technology. Most of the human resource is more comfortable with manual based processed data and accordingly making the decisions which leads to least efficiency in operations and reflecting on the income statement. Therefore, to provide the training has become the major challenge in the HR practices (Ranae, 2015).

Talent Management

        According to the source, talent management is one of the HR practices which used to be the slow process on annually basis and also prepare the plane of next five years. The digital phenomena has changed it all within short time period and now this job has become more complex because the rapid change has been introducing into the digital technology and talent management requires conducting the training sessions more rapidly and it needs to ensure that each and every staff member have been trained enough to take the advantage of digital technology (Dianna, 2017). Therefore, talent management has become more challenging HR practice which never used to be at this level and things were quite easy for the HR managers before the introduction of digital technologies.

        According to the source, this HR function has become more challenging as now HR also have to be good at digital technology before analyzing and appraising the performance of existing employees, accordingly conduct the talent management. Technicalities were never involved into the HR job before these phenomena, but this job is also technical nature and one has to learn these technicalities for surviving in the job (Niaz, 2015).  

Higher Expectations of Human Resource Management

        According to the source, after the implementation of digital technologies, the expectations have been increased from the HR to contribute into the overall organizational goals and objectives. HR can now play its strategic role to the operations through managing the talent and strategic human resource which are very-well conversant with the digital technology and taking the advantage of it for making business decisions (Alok, 2015). Such higher expectations is coming from the fact that HR has now access to modern technology and now they can perform better and play strategically through using such an advanced technology at the time of hiring the resource which is the first step into the process. If first is taken perfectly, then the success of whole process would be ensured well.

        Moreover, It also has changed the job of HR managers make it more challenging because now HR department also has to remain conversant with digital latest technology and also coming in future. It is the HR job to bring the improvements in the overall work processes and make it better over the time. HR job has become more dynamic comparing to the previous time when digital technology was not introduced. This phenomenon has totally changed the nature of job of HR and added the complexities (Lopez, 2018).

Managing Overseas Staff/Human Resource  

        According to the source, this is the additional responsibility added into the HR practices which again occurred due to the introduction of digital technology. This was never the function of HR but it introduced when organization also gained an ability of having an access to highly quality human resource through digital technology and hire him for short time period to avail his services (Niaz, 2015). It is the job of human resource department to hire the foreign staff online and assign the jobs accordingly. They also have to be conducting the all hr practices upon the foreign staff such as performance appraisal, hiring criteria, payment of salaries and training sessions. It is quite challenging for the human resource department to be dealing with the foreign employee who may be having different language and also complicated managing its performance through online portal (Alok, 2015).

        According to the source, this shows that the nature of HR practices and job has changed totally and now HR is not an ordinary simple job anymore. They have to be learning the new skills of accomplishing their new responsibilities which is coming from global world phenomena enabled by digital technology. They have to be conversant with the all modern technologies and their usage in the business process. Else human resource department would not be able doing well in the process. It is important to point out that overseas remotely controlled staff can make the frauds to the company in terms of productivity; it needs clever monitoring techniques which is only possible by HR practices (Lopez, 2018).

References of Discuss challenges facing in HR practices. 

Alok, M., 2015. Information Technology in Human Resource Management: An Empirical Assessment. Ebscohost, 13(1), pp. 54-61.

Bersin, J., 2016. The New Digital World Of Work: How HR Will Change In 2016. [Online]
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Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maribellopez/2018/12/02/its-time-to-reinvent-your-human-resources-strategy-and-ibm-wants-watson-to-be-your-guide/#34da748f7053
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Niaz, T., 2015. Information technology, knowledge management and human resource management. Ebscohost, 13(1), pp. 41-55.

Ranae, B., 2015. Human resource management, information technology, and the competitive edge. Ebscohost, 13(1), pp. 41-56.