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HR plan

why HR professionals need to have an HR plan? discuss its merits and demerits

HR management: The (new) rules of engagement

HR management: The (new) rules of engagement

Future trends in OD and skills of OD practitioner

So how do you see the future of OD and what will be the relevant skills for this profession

Future Trends in HR

Global status quo is today challenged by 2Ts. The first being ‘Technology’ and the other ‘Talent’ . Richard Dobs (Director McKinsey Global Institute) wrote in Mckinsey Quarterly November 2012 that “Technology has produced 900 million non-farm jobs in the developing economy since 1980”. The emergence of high tech companies amongst Fortune 500 lists have been a phenomenon during the last 10 years. Google, facebook and Apple are few!  In today’s wonderful world an app can make you a millionaire or even a billionaire at a young age! D’Aloisio, only 17 years old, sold an APP “Summly” to Yahoo for $30 million. Recently facebook, itself started-up by teenagers, acquired ‘whatsapp’ for $19 billion! This is just beginning of technology and more will come in future. Numbers with a dollar sign have grown exponentially while the numbers denoting age have become almost irrelevant! The disruptive fuel that drives Technology is human Talent. A study by MGI (http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_